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Amelia M. Gummere, Quaker: A Study in Costume. ISBN 0-405-08585-0. Donald Kraybill, Puzzles of Amish Life. ISBN 1-56148-001-0. Margaret C. Reynolds, Plain Women: Gender and Ritual in the Old Order River Brethren. ISBN 0-271-02138-1. Charles D. Thompson Jr., The Old German Baptist Brethren: Faith, Farming, and Change in the Virginia Blue Ridge.
A mother wearing a kapp. A kapp (/kɒp/, Pennsylvania German from German Kappe meaning cap, cover, hood) is a Christian headcovering worn by many women of certain Anabaptist Christian denominations (especially among Amish, Mennonites, Schwarzenau Brethren and River Brethren of the Old Order Anabaptist and Conservative Anabaptist traditions), as well as certain Conservative Friends and Plain ...
Women of the Old Order River Brethren, an Anabaptist Christian denomination, wearing the cape dress and kapp New Order Amish children playing baseball in plain clothing. The practice is generally found among the following Anabaptist branches: Amish (Old Order Amish, New Order Amish, Kauffman Amish Mennonites, Beachy Amish Mennonites), Para-Amish (Believers in Christ, Vernon Community ...
The Kauffman Amish Mennonites, also called Sleeping Preacher Churches or Tampico Amish Mennonite Churches, are a Plain branch of the Amish Mennonites whose tradition goes back to John D. Kauffman (1847–1913) who preached while being in trance. In 2017, they had some 2,000 baptized members and lived mainly in Missouri and Arkansas.
Women are also expected to wear headcoverings (which are in the form of a kapp) that are meant to express the woman's submission to God in obedience to the biblical ordinance delineated in 1 Corinthians 11:4–10; while adult women in traditional Amish society are expected to wear kapps that cover their head fully with the strings of the kapps ...
Most of the women of the Dunkard Brethren dress in a plain manner, which has been associated with other Conservative Anabaptists, such as the Conservative Mennonites (including the Beachy Mennonites), as well as Old Order Anabaptist groups, such as the Old Order Brethren and Old Order Mennonites. Women are also expected to wear a plain white ...
This woman came clean about what it’s like having Amish in-laws. TikToker Kristen Mullet (@kristenmullet) shared an amusing video describing what it’s like having Amish in-laws through marriage.
In certain Conservative Mennonite Anabaptist congregationations of the Beachy Amish Mennonite tradition, an opaque hanging veil is permitted as an alternative to the kapp if it covers as much or more hair as the kapp, which traditionally is "of ample size to cover most of the hair". [2]