This looks like fun! Dress Like a Polygamist @ Polygamē Clothers of Utah

Polygamē Clothers of Utah is located on Main Street inside the Treasure Mountain Inn, in Park City.

Check out the following article from The Park Record:

Dress like a polygamist on Main Street
Novelty t-shirt shop pokes fun at Utah stereotype
by Andrew Kirk, OF THE RECORD STAFF
Posted: 12/17/2010 04:33:33 PM MST

Amber Smith shows off three of her designs and some of the books on polygamy offered in the...

Now that alcohol is easier to buy, Utah County resident Amber Smith is tackling the next biggest stereotype of Utah culture with a t-shirt shop called Polygamē Clothers of Utah.

Women can buy a t-shirt that labels them "Wife 27." Men can get a sweatshirt that says, "Half the husband, twice the man" or "I went to Utah and all I got was this other wife."

Smith is not part of a polygamist family and never has been, but she does know quite a bit about them. Since American culture seems fascinated with contemporary sister wives, she figured there was no one better to capitalize on the curiosity in what she hopes is a respectful manner.

"We don't want to be hateful to polygamist people, or to be rude, but to lighten the mood," she said.

Nor is it a stab at Mormonism, she said. Her husband, anthropologist Daymon Smith, is a Mormon history expert and both are members of the LDS Church.

"Tourists come to Utah and think we're all polygamists. We're poking fun at that," she explained.

The clothing is all hand-inked so each shirt or hoodie is unique. If people want to learn more about the practice, dozens of books give the history of nineteenth-century Mormon polygamy and polygamous practices around the world. Smith has even designed several ankle-length dresses inspired by photographs of Brigham Young's daughters and sewn in Colorado City, of course.

She has spotted a few people from Colorado City checking the store out, and they chuckled too, she said. Smith believes they've succeeded in joking with, not at, the contemporary practitioners.

"You don't have to be a polygamist, but you can dress like one," she said. "We're light-hearted about it; it's tongue-in-cheek."

Smith acknowledges some modern LDS Church members don't find polygamy funny, but she thinks that's ironic. Utahns are quick to judge groups they don't know a lot about. That's the exact same reason so many Americans assume church members all have many wives.

Polygamy was never a large part of Mormon culture, but it was understood and respected. She thinks Utahns today could do a better job respecting other people's beliefs.

Meanwhile, Smith has t-shirts reading, "Bigamy Schmigamy" and "Poly-curious." If anyone wishes
to take the anachronism a step further, she has images of Brigham Young dressed as Che Guevara all in the name of fun.

Polygamē Clothers of Utah
Inside Treasure Mountain Inn
255 Main Street Suite D
435-241-8420