Cheapest for a woman would be $51.10 and for a man $44.80. However, this does not include garments or the white clothing. The white clothing does not need to be bought from the church as long as it fits the uniform.
Garments are between approximately two and four dollars a piece (remember that you wear two pieces). Dresses are about forty to fifty dollars each, and the slippers are another ten to fifteen.
So minimum total for a woman would be around $110.
Last time I bought garments they were around $4 a piece. This was at least 5 or more years ago, so the price may have gone up.
That is expensive when you consider you are paying $8 to wear mormon underwear, not including a bra. I don't spent $8 on a single pair of (normal) underwear.
Eta - I just looked it up. Women's tops are $5, bottoms around $2.80. Men's tops, $2.80 ish, same for bottoms. I wonder how much that huge garbage bag (2 of them) I threw out costed us.
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I always had beef with that. I wouldn't buy them, I thought they should be free. Probably why I only ever went to tmeple for weddings. I always thought it strange even from the very first visit that they had a cash register to rent the stuff. I still have the original garments my parents bought me for my mission. Its been 15 years but I quit wearing them soon after I got married. My wife hated hers from the get go so it was easy to not wear them. We just wore them when we were going to hang with Mormons.
I was recently at a TBM's house and I flipped through the Deseret holiday catalogue. There were some very fancy temple gowns for sale for women. I can't remember the cost - I think in the $69 range.
What a racket the temple is. It's not enough that members have to fork over 10% of their income for temple membership dues, which in my former very high income-earning ward can be close to $100,000 (per individual) in annual tithing, but they also have to purchase the necessary temple clothing, not sold outside of LDS Inc. Cha-ching!
Dave the Atheist Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > They cost over ten percent of your gross income.
Grossly underestimated there:
10% of your gross is nothing - if that is all you actually had, or were expected, to give, but when considering TIME Is MONEY, and how much time they spend with their hobby/ 'church'/ "callings"/ "following" and supporting and propping up.
Try more like 20%-25% of your mental, social, 'religiospiritual', earning, and building, not to mention saving, power. WAY Too Much, no matter how it's looked at. Mormonism Asks For Too Much. It's constantly BEGGING. Mormons don't follow "the 'church'", it follows them. ALWAYS asking for more. Callings all the time. Always using the same line.
OP wears garments? Without grommets?
OP - (it's) temple closed, (Not temple clothes)
The Temple is closed- you can go back to wearing your own clothes