CLERGY AND CLOTHES.
" LIKE UNDERTAKERS." " Few clergy liavo tho courago to go about dressed Ii 1;o reasonable human beings," says the Rev. Basil 0 I>ourcliioi, vicar cf St. Judo's, llampstcad Garden Suburb, in his parish magazine. " Their passion for wearing funeral black, a la undertaker, and their love of tho dog-collar, thereby apeing tho Latin Church, together with that weirdest of headgear called the ' wideawake/ is, in my judgment," Mr. Ilourchier writes, " calculated rnoro than anything else to set "up :m effective barrier between the clergyman and the layman. . . " Gaiters and aprons in 1929 are nbout uncomely ns the antique crinoline. A minister s job is hard enough, so why make it harder by arraying him in the costume which puts people off."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20312, 20 July 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)
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