Home made temple garments?

[puf_the_majic_dragon]

Once upon a time, there was no distribution center or Beehive Clothing company. Saints made their own garments or garments were made for them by friends, neighbors, or the Relief Society.

 

I'm curious about the historical transition and the current back-end process for producing and consecrating temple garments is. I'd also like information on if or when the leadership of the church advised against the "home-made" option and whether there are any existing rules or processes for making home-made garments today. I'm not having much luck - web searches for anything with "temple garment" in them are utterly useless. I'm hoping someone here might know a few obscure references I can study.

 

Does anyone have any resources that might help?

[Just_A_Guy]

They were also available via third-party manufacturers.

 

For example . . .

[puf_the_majic_dragon]

Those advertisements might be exactly the reason that the church consolidated garment production in-house. Even some of the fabrics and styles available today border on "costly apparel" in terms of the reasons people would buy them - and those ads are even worse. Though, based on some of the text, it seems that not all of those ads refer to post-endowment temple garments but to undergarments in general.