While PeaceBang (and her excellent Beauty Tips for Ministers) is on vacation, I thought I would point out this excellent page highlighting the deep mistakes some real church outfiting catalogs make in choosing models . . . . Or choosing designs for that matter.
Taking the Episcopalian: Model Behaviour
The Rt. Rev. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury (picture), has been a disappointing leader for many of the world’s Anglicans, left and right. But I’ll leave it to the Episcopalians to give him a boot in the cassock, particularly his handling of bishops who meddle in others’ jurisdictions.
My beef with this learned cleric is […]
I was reading PeaceBang’s encomium on the trench coat (”Why You Need a Trench“) and she invoked my name. (I’ll confess I thought of World War One when I first saw the title)
There are special fancy capes that clergy can wear, but although Boy in the Bands will disagree with me, I tend to think […]
I’m working up a reply to Peacebang’s comments about trench coats but having a terrible time finding pictures.
I have found something that all gown-wearing clergy would want: something comfortable that breathes in the heat and travels well. If you can afford it, and are willing to order from Germany. Dan Harper, I know you’re interested […]
I was poking around some military chaplain sites in search of another “liminal places” post (Diego Garcia, anyone? well, no chapel site to be found) and found a picture of a British Forces chaplain in the kind of choir dress I was recommending recently.
Chaplain Alan Jesson
This pic was embedded (badly) within this page. I would […]
OK, so you’re not giving up your black gown and you’re hot as blazes in your un-air-conditioned church? Wear the gown open. Wear it over street clothes: no stole, no collar, no bands, no hood. That way, if you begin to swoon you can shuck it unobtrusively. (I have a couple a time.) And demand […]
PeaceBang has been promoting the alb as a solution for heat-stroke in the pulpit, but I can’t agree so I’m back to opining what ministers ought to wear.
No, PeaceBang, this isn’t my reply yet — still researching it — but I ran across the comment by dear Hank, where he said:
What our pal Unity and i are trying to get our hands on are Parson hats, you know those round flat hats that preachers always wear in cowboy movies and as soon […]
Of all the vestment makers out there, I think Wippell’s is my favorite. (Not that I have any of their gear, but the Boy can dream.) They’ve had a website for ages: a backwards, nearly useless website. At last they’ve gotten parts of their catalog scanned and up as PDF files. (But as always, no […]
Hubby and I attended worship this morning at a nearby Episcopal church that can only be described as crunchy-liberal and Dipped In Gay.
