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Hookers_Trick
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Where did the fashion for prelates wearing violet clerical shirts originate, and when? US Anglican bishops almost always take to the purple, English ones mostly purple with some opting for black (the more Anglo-Catholic ones perhaps leaning to black clerical shirts?).
I suspect this has something to do with purple episcopal cassocks, and wonder when that fashion originated? Archbishops Lang and Temple are both portrayed in purple cassocks in portraits, so at least as far back as the early C20...
I suspect this has something to do with purple episcopal cassocks, and wonder when that fashion originated? Archbishops Lang and Temple are both portrayed in purple cassocks in portraits, so at least as far back as the early C20...
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But mostly worn by ambitious lesser clerics, if rumour is to be believed.
This is probably true, though it seems counterintuitive: one might expect austere evangelicals preferring black. Apart from ++Justin Welby, most evangelical bishops, as well as MOTR ones, seem to go for purple. Perhaps it's because RC bishops normally wear black shirts that many anglo-catholic ones do.
Also, purple silk underpants are definitely a thing.
That particular bishop appears to be wearing his mitre incorrectly
Hahaha!
Has the bishop been bashed, one wonders?