The Clergy Couture
Practical guides to vestments, liturgical colours, clergy shirts, stoles, habits and their care, written for priests, pastors, deacons and sacristans.
Soutane is simply the French and Irish word for a cassock. The differences that matter are of cut, not of name: Roman, Anglican, Jesuit and cassock-alb.
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Garment for garment, women clergy wear what male clergy wear: the same alb, stole, cassock and collar. What differs is the draft underneath, and...
Four collar systems, five materials and six measurements. What separates a tab from a band, which height suits your neck, and what shirt colour...
What can be washed at home and what cannot, why dry cleaning damages metal thread, how to store a chasuble so it keeps its...
A chasuble can cost $70 or $2,000, and both are legitimate. Five price bands, with real listed prices from named makers checked in September...
Seven measurements size almost every vestment: height, centre-back neck to hem, sleeve, chest, waist, neck and shoulder width. Here is how to take each...
A side-by-side chart of what Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran and Methodist parishes actually wear through the year, with the rubric behind each column and...
Eucharistic vestments and choir dress are two different families of garment, and confusing them causes most vesture mistakes. Here is every garment, who wears...
