The Duggars and Their World: Fashion, Food, Finance, Schoolin’ and Child Rearin'

[CalicoKitty]

22 hours ago, AUgirl said:

We have a stupid rule we can't wear blue jeans to work any day but Friday. We can however wear demin skirts. I have a couple I wear when if a shirt doesn't look right with black or white jeans (which we are permitted to wear). However mine are defraudingly above the knee.

I worked as a nurse at a Catholic Hospital when then there were still several nuns working there.  The head of the hospital was a very nice nun, but she did not like denim.  We were not allowed to wear anything denim at any time at the hospital, even if we were changing into scrubs immediately upon arrival.  That anti-denim rule lasted a very long time.

[Marigold]

@cmr2014

Stretchy denim is very comfortable! Nice flow. 

Definitely don't post about my superior clothing choices. Promise.  ;)

[Beaner]

Stretchy denim is the bomb.

[GeeGolly]

I love jeans. Denim skirts and denim jackets I find too restrictive. I do like the look on other folks though. The Duggars could really be "modern modest" within their confines, with just a little extra effort.

[Marshmallow Mollie]

The Duggars could really be a lot of things with just a little extra effort. 

[kokapetl]

It’s nice that you love a great dinner together, but perhaps inform the tie wearers beforehand that they’ll be overdressed. 

[Sew Sumi]

Is it wrong of me that before looking more closely, I thought the chubby guy in the front was Smuggar? People thought he'd lost a lot of weight before the wedding, but hey, suits hide multitudes of sins, as does posing from an angle. Look at Cheeto Benito for Example A. 

[GeeGolly]

Are they in a gym?

[Churchhoney]

Do they ever eat any food that isn't yellow and brown?

[Marshmallow Mollie]

Josie is looking good! She looks like a healthy 7 yr old, for once.

And I love her full bowl of ketchup ;)

[Rabbittron]

4 hours ago, Kokapetl said:

It’s nice that you love a great dinner together, but perhaps inform the tie wearers beforehand that they’ll be overdressed. 

Photo is a fuck you internet moment because they are using plastic real plates to eat off of.

[SMama]

Who is the robust man at the forefront? I know this is major BEC, but why is Spurgeon sitting closer to Jana than his mother?

[kokapetl]

2 hours ago, Churchhoney said:

Do they ever eat any food that isn't yellow and brown?

Orange, but not oranges.

[Barb23]

1 hour ago, SMama said:

Who is the robust man at the forefront? I know this is major BEC, but why is Spurgeon sitting closer to Jana than his mother?

I didn't see Spurge.  I was just happy Jana got to sit near someone her own age (Benessa.) I forgot she was needed to balance Spurge & Henry on her lap while eating so Benessa could eat their meals.

 

5 hours ago, Sew Sumi said:

Is it wrong of me that before looking more closely, I thought the chubby guy in the front was Smuggar? People thought he'd lost a lot of weight before the wedding, but hey, suits hide multitudes of sins, as does posing from an angle. Look at Cheeto Benito for Example A. 

I thought it was Smugs too.

[bythelake]

49 minutes ago, Barb23 said:

I didn't see Spurge.  I was just happy Jana got to sit near someone her own age (Benessa.) I forgot she was needed to balance Spurge & Henry on her lap while eating so Benessa could eat their meals.

 

I thought it was Smugs too.

In the comments next to the picture, someone says the mystery man is Caleb Williams, a friend of the family. Is that Spurge at head of the table next to Jana and Benessa? 

[riverblue22]

1 minute ago, bythelake said:

In the comments next to the picture, someone says the mystery man is Caleb Williams, a friend of the family. Is that Spurge at head of the table next to Jana and Benessa? 

And Caleb is stuck at the end of the table with the little girls!

[BetyBee]

4 minutes ago, bythelake said:

In the comments next to the picture, someone says the mystery man is Caleb Williams, a friend of the family. Is that Spurge at head of the table next to Jana and Benessa? 

And if you click on it and take a closer look, Caleb's undies are clearly visible.  I am defrauded. 

[xwordfanatik]

5 minutes ago, BetyBee said:

And if you click on it and take a closer look, Caleb's undies are clearly visible.  I am defrauded. 

He looks to be a bit big for his britches.  I wonder if he shows his plumber's butt to all when he bends over?  LOL

[Temperance]

I didn't see Jana there. Somebody has a better eye than I do.  Too bad she wasn't seated across from Caleb!

[luvbadtv]

47 minutes ago, Temperance said:

I didn't see Jana there. Somebody has a better eye than I do.  Too bad she wasn't seated across from Caleb!

Don't make her pick Caleb; she's down at the far end with her girlfriend.

[ginger90]

No Dillard's ?

[BitterApple]

1 hour ago, ginger90 said:

No Dillard's ?

I think Boob put the Dullards in time-out, thanks to Derelict's crazy tweets. No more free meals for them until they get back in line.

[ariel]

18 hours ago, Kokapetl said:

It’s nice that you love a great dinner together, but perhaps inform the tie wearers beforehand that they’ll be overdressed. 

My nightmare would be seated near them.  They are probably loud, noisy, with lots of kids running around.  I hope that place serves booze.

Edited September 25, 2017 by ariel

[Ohiopirate02]

12 hours ago, ariel said:

My nightmare would be seated near them.  They are probably loud, noisy, with lots of kids running around.  I hope that place serves booze.

They are probably also a nightmare for the waitstaff.  I can just see them running a server ragged and leaving a few bible tracts as a tip.  I hope the restaurant has a mandatory gratuity for large parties. 

[xwordfanatik]

52 minutes ago, Ohiopirate02 said:

They are probably also a nightmare for the waitstaff.  I can just see them running a server ragged and leaving a few bible tracts as a tip.  I hope the restaurant has a mandatory gratuity for large parties. 

They probably expect the waiters to kiss their butts, and yes!  I can see them leaving no cash & bible leaflets instead.  I would bet they avoid places that automatically tack on a large party gratuity.  If I can't afford to leave a 15-20% tip, I stay home.  I hate stinginess.

[Marshmallow Mollie]

And I bet they are very loud and distracting to the other diners. For a large party like theirs, there would be a wait for their food, and I doubt the younger kids wait well. I have young kids and eating at sit down restaurant is out of the question. 

[Jenniferbug]

A Facebook friend of mine (who is also an educator) posted this picture of the textbook (or maybe I should say "textbook") that a colleague of hers purchased at the Creation Museum. Of course I thought of the Duggars. 

[Sew Sumi]

What the actual FUCK?????? My head exploded just looking at that. 

[SnarkyShark]

2 hours ago, Jenniferbug said:

A Facebook friend of mine (who is also an educator) posted this picture of the textbook (or maybe I should say "textbook") that a colleague of hers purchased at the Creation Museum. Of course I thought of the Duggars. 

Ok. That's hilarious. I love how it carefully cherry picks what to cover prior to 1500. If this is a world history textbook (although it seems more like an American history textbook), then I am alarmed. I would love to see any Duggar or Gothard follower try to make it through even the first chapter of my World History AP textbook.

On second thought, it would be highly entertaining to see my WHAP teacher teach a history lesson to any of the high school aged Duggars. She was tough, but passionate about history and very knowledgeable. They would be lost within a minute. 

[questionfear]

A few years ago I was out in Ohio for my cousin-in-law's wedding. We saw a ton of billboards for the Creation Museum (including one of a guy riding a T-Rex like it was a horse), and I still regret we never got to go see it. My wife put the smackdown on that idea when she found out it was like $30 per person to get in or something. 

One of my friends pointed out we probably could have been admitted for free if I had explained I was a Jewish lesbian and needed to learn the truth. 

[Rabbittron]

On 9/26/2017 at 9:34 PM, SnarkyShark said:

Ok. That's hilarious. I love how it carefully cherry picks what to cover prior to 1500. If this is a world history textbook (although it seems more like an American history textbook), then I am alarmed. I would love to see any Duggar or Gothard follower try to make it through even the first chapter of my World History AP textbook.

On second thought, it would be highly entertaining to see my WHAP teacher teach a history lesson to any of the high school aged Duggars. She was tough, but passionate about history and very knowledgeable. They would be lost within a minute. 

I want to call them and see if they will ship the books to me . I  am looking for some new humor materials for reading. 

[Churchhoney]

No Comment Department. 

http://www.spring.org.uk/2017/10/the-sad-way-parents-lower-their-childrens-iq.php

[floridamom]

Michelle (Jana and of course, Laura) took the little girls and Mack out for birthday lunches the other day. I don't know where in the world this family goes out of their way to shop for the ugliest, frumpiest, vagabond clothing that these little girls wear. They all looked awful, even Mack, who is usually better dressed. I'd be embarrassed for my daughters to be seen like they usually are, but Michelle doesn't care one bit. She had to have 2 support people to take a few girls out to lunch?...all of whom can walk, talk, use the restroom and eat by themselves..this woman is the most incompetent adult I have ever observed. What was the last meal SHE COOKED for her family herself?

[ginger90]

1 hour ago, floridamom said:

Michelle (Jana and of course, Laura) took the little girls and Mack out for birthday lunches the other day. I don't know where in the world this family goes out of their way to shop for the ugliest, frumpiest, vagabond clothing that these little girls wear. They all looked awful, even Mack, who is usually better dressed. I'd be embarrassed for my daughters to be seen like they usually are, but Michelle doesn't care one bit. She had to have 2 support people to take a few girls out to lunch?...all of whom can walk, talk, use the restroom and eat by themselves..this woman is the most incompetent adult I have ever observed. What was the last meal SHE COOKED for her family herself?

Here's the picture

https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/22281983_1134840116649636_3747021163671058929_n.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoibCJ9&oh=d6cc1b285f7aeb1091093a5e33220855&oe=5A3A6819

[Catfin]

1 hour ago, ginger90 said:

Here's the picture

https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/22281983_1134840116649636_3747021163671058929_n.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoibCJ9&oh=d6cc1b285f7aeb1091093a5e33220855&oe=5A3A6819

Looks as though some of the girls have been upgraded from Dollar Store flip flops to Chaco's sandals. Is this a classic "eff you Internets" moment?

[kokapetl]

2 hours ago, ginger90 said:

Here's the picture

 

I get why Josie possibly “needs” to wear the modest knee protection, but they don’t trust the rest of them not to “flash” their knees?

Edited October 8, 2017 by Kokapetl

[GeeGolly]

Its odd. None of the dresses are horrible, yet they do look dressed a bit like ragamuffins. I can't figure it out. I think if Mack and Josie (& Michelle) were removed from the pic the 3 older girls would look fine. Mack's dress is to big and Josie's outfit is just too much.

Collectively they have on enough clothing to dress a 1st grade classroom.

[Absolom]

It's nice to see that Anna knows a modest dress is fine and doesn't find a need to add t-shirt and leggings to it.

[Nysha]

3 hours ago, floridamom said:

I don't know where in the world this family goes out of their way to shop for the ugliest, frumpiest, vagabond clothing that these little girls wear. They all looked awful, even Mack, who is usually better dressed. I'd be embarrassed for my daughters to be seen like they usually are, but Michelle doesn't care one bit.

I don't think the dresses by themselves look bad, it's the fact that they're not the right sizes and the extra t-shirt and Capri-length leggings that make the outfits look like something pulled out of a ragbag. 

[madpsych78]

1 hour ago, Kokapetl said:

I get why Josie possibly “needs” to wear the modest knee protection, but they don’t trust the rest of them not to “flash” their knees?

Perhaps the girls are so used to wearing dresses with leggings that they just prefer to do that at this point? I would think that Hannie at least, since she is 12 or almost 12, picks her own clothes. She even has a jean skirt!

[Churchhoney]

55 minutes ago, madpsych78 said:

Perhaps the girls are so used to wearing dresses with leggings that they just prefer to do that at this point? I would think that Hannie at least, since she is 12 or almost 12, picks her own clothes. She even has a jean skirt!

That would be typical. They've put them in a prison so long that now they don't need to force it any longer. The kids imprison themselves. without a second thought.

Sickening, to me, if that's the case. More sickening than if Hannie's still being ordered to wear the leggings, actually. Because once you've internalized all the shit that's been forced on you -- to the point that you think it's your own damn preference --  a lifetime may still not be long enough to eject it from your brain. 

Edited October 8, 2017 by Churchhoney

[Albanyguy]

2 hours ago, Nysha said:

I don't know where in the world this family goes out of their way to shop for the ugliest, frumpiest, vagabond clothing that these little girls wear. They all looked awful, even Mack, who is usually better dressed. I'd be embarrassed for my daughters to be seen like they usually are, but Michelle doesn't care one bit.

It's all part of the act, designed to make people pay attention to them. What's the point of being "modest" if you can't make people stare and talk amongst themselves about how very "modest" you are? They have to make sure their female children have every square inch of skin covered up by putting them in the ugliest clothes possible. Michelle couldn't simply go out and buy a mother-of-the-bride dress with a high neckline; she had to buy a low-cut one and then stitch on a big piece of cloth to cover her boobies so that all eyes would be on her.

Some of the rationale for the excessive modesty is Gothard teaching and some is a reaction to Josh molesting his sisters years ago, but I'm sure that a big part of it is just showing off for their audience. It's similar in a way to the Robertson family on Duck Dynasty. The redneck beards and bandanas were just costumes devised to get themselves on TV. There are photos out there of them in their pre-celebrity days showing them clean-shaven and dressed like preppies in polo shirts and khaki shorts.

Edited October 8, 2017 by Albanyguy

[Barb23]

1 hour ago, madpsych78 said:

Perhaps the girls are so used to wearing dresses with leggings that they just prefer to do that at this point? I would think that Hannie at least, since she is 12 or almost 12, picks her own clothes. She even has a jean skirt!

Is the Jean Skirt part of their passage to womanhood?  Starting with knee length & working  their way to floor sweeping?

Poor Josie looks like she has on pajama bottoms rather than leggings. Probably the only times she gets to wear them.

[ariel]

Josie's sandals look too big for her feet.  It looks like they just slapped on one of her older sister's & called it a day.

[kokapetl]

Alternate angle 

[Arwen Evenstar]

Salads for MeChelle and Jana, but what is everyone else eating?  Bread pudding? One or two orders of something cut up? 

[kokapetl]

Urinal cakes. 

[Arwen Evenstar]

5 minutes ago, Kokapetl said:

Urinal cakes. 

Ewwwww, Koka.  That's gross.  LOL

[Churchhoney]

2 hours ago, ariel said:

Josie's sandals look too big for her feet.  It looks like they just slapped on one of her older sister's & called it a day.

Sounds like something they'd do. 

[Catlyn]

It's a shame they look so "raggedity." I've seen little girls' dresses being sold with leggings and they look really cute. I never thought it would be a "thing" outside the Duggars.