1 82 ESSAYS ON CEREMONIAL feminine attire. It is generally worn over a cassock of a scarlet so violent as to make any general scheme of colour in the church impossible. It is rapidly becoming obso lete and in most churches on the continent (whence it originated) has been replaced by the rochet or… … Fig. 4. — Sleeveless Rochet. By the St. Dunstan Society. Drawn by BERTA RUCK. This fact seems to be unknown to artists and stage managers, who continue to regard the ungraceful and short-lived cotta as the characteristic linen vestment of Christendom for the last thousand years. It must be…
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