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2. Christian clothing - Wikipedia

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   In some Christian communities, the term "Sunday best" refers to the tradition of saving one's finest clothing for Sunday services. In some communities, churches served as the main social center for local residents. As such, dressing in fine clothing for religious services was often dictated by a need to project status and influence among peers. [2]

3. Religious clothing - Wikipedia

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   The kittel is a white robe worn on certain occasions by married men (and some women) [12] in Ashkenazic and Hasidic communities, such as Yom Kippur and Passover Seder, and may be worn by those leading prayers (and in some communities by all married men) on Rosh Hashanah, Hoshanah Rabbah, and for Tefilas Tal and Tefilas Geshem.

4. Pulpit gown - Wikipedia

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   The pulpit gown, also called pulpit robe or preaching robe, is a black gown worn by Protestant ministers for preaching. It is particularly associated with Reformed churches, while also used in the Anglican, Methodist, Lutheran, Baptist, and Unitarian traditions.

5. Religious habit - Wikipedia

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   A religious habit is a distinctive set of clothing worn by members of a religious order.Traditionally, some plain garb recognizable as a religious habit has also been worn by those leading the religious eremitic and anchoritic life, although in their case without conformity to a particular uniform style.

6. Cilice - Wikipedia

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   Hairshirt cilice of St. Louis at St. Aspais Church, Melun, France Ivan the Terrible's hairshirt cilice (16th century). The tsar wanted to die like a monk. There is some evidence, based on analyses of both clothing represented in art and preserved skin imprint patterns at Çatalhöyük in Turkey, that the usage of the cilice predates written history.

7. Christianity and fringed garments - Wikipedia

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   In Christian liturgy, the stole and other vestments worn by priests and bishops traditionally have fringes on the edge, in remembrance of the Old Testament prescriptions.. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, when the priest or bishop puts on his stole he reads a prayer taken from the Psalms of Degrees: "Blessed is God Who poureth out His grace upon His priests, like unto the precious ointment on ...