The 10 Weirdest Tax-Exempt Items

By Jessie Gable

The 2013 State Sales Tax Holiday begins at 12:01 a.m. Friday and ends Sunday, Aug. 4. 

In looking at the items available for tax exemption this weekend, some of them make sense. Others? Well, not so much. 

Shirts, pants, socks, and shoes are all fitting, yes? Then there are the items that make you scratch your head.

Here are the top 10 strangest items on the tax exempt list:

1. Adult diapers — This is in no way meant to embarrass anyone who has to wear these. The strange part of this listing is that other personal hygiene items are not on the tax exempt list.

2. Beach capes — Not sure what that is? We weren't either. Apparently Google doesn't know either. The best we can come up with is an item that Aquaman would wear. If you buy a beach cape this weekend, please send Patch a photo.

3. (Regular?) capes — Your average superhero cape is tax free this weekend.

4. Bonnets — Are we Southern enough for this to be relevant?

5. Wedding Gowns — I suppose the idea that you can buy a tax-free wedding dress is appropriate considering that you can also buy tax-free baby bibs. If anyone is getting a baby bib to go to high school, we would hope they also had to buy a tax-free wedding dress.

6. Corsest and Corset Laces — So we have bonnets and corsets. Was the author of this list born in Atlanta around the time the Yankees came through during the war between the states?

7. Garters and Garter Belts — To go with the wedding gowns and corsets?

8. Riding Pants — Forget the bus, we're taking the horse to school this year.

9. Shoulder Pads — Just in case your child wants to be in The Breakfast Club or one of the Designing Women.

10. Skin Diving Suits — The idea was that you could get back-to-school clothes without taxes. So what school teaches skin diving? And can we transfer there?

These aren't all the strange things: Dress shields, support hosiery, waders and "dry suits" also made the cut. The full list is attached to this story at right.

See the full list here. Tell us, what do you think about the list?