CHURCH VESTMENTS 183 of the English Church are in equal ignorance, and still wear this indecent garment instead of the ample surplice of English canon law. The surplice (figs, i, 2 and 5) is the most graceful of all vestments, when it is cut on the ample lines which have come down to us from the… … Fig. 6. — Winged Rochet. By the St. Dunstan Society. Drawn by BERTA RUCK. too short and without folds, of the type that is nick-named " sausage-skin," when it loses all its grace and dignity. There can be no doubt that this degradation of shape is due to the rage for cheapness, a properly made…
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