Friday, September 10, 2010

Tracking Pants for the LDS Missionary

In my blog of September 8th, I refered to the "What to Wear List" for a male LDS missionary. It includes 2 suits and 2 or 3 additional pairs of pants.

While shopping in UT, we found that most of the stores offered suits with 2 pairs of matching slacks. By purchasing suits that way, we accounted for 4 out of the 5 pairs of pants recommended in the dress guidelines. We considered the fifth pair of pants as optional.

What the guidelines do not specify is that most missionaries also need "tracking pants" which are nice dress slacks that hold a crease and can be worn without a suit coat. We did not realize the significance of that additional pair of pants, and so our missionary only packed 4 pairs of pants in his luggage.

In his first email after arriving at the MTC, our missionary asked us to send him an additional pair of pants. Fortunately, he had left behind a  pair of dark slacks that he had been wearing to church while at college so we ended up shipping those to him.

Just one more thing I wish I'd known... 

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