GARMENTS OF BISHOPS,
As a result of a concerted drive against their ‘quaint garments of antiquity,” it is stated that English bishops are hoping soon to be able to wear something that will be an improvement on gaiters and shovel” hats. Gaiters, -it is said, are viewed ,by many bfshops as unlovely anachronisms, and the Rev,. Ronald Hall on being appointed to the See of Hong Kong voiced his protest against having to wear them by saying: “A bishop in gaiters looks like. Mr. Pickwick.” The Bisihop of Kensington upheld Bishop Hall's view, and asked also for a new design of hat that would be more suitable for motoring. He suggested that the present clothes were designed for horse-riding, and that the “shovel hat,” when a bisihop drove a motor-car, was incongruous and certainly unstable. Lord Sankey, the Lord Chancellor, at'the meeting when the Bishop of Kensington made hig.protest, said that if the bishops would design their own dress, he would be willing to consider it, and also to introduce a Bill in Parliament to make it compulsory.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 35, 4 November 1933, Page 12
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178GARMENTS OF BISHOPS, Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 35, 4 November 1933, Page 12
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