Choir Dress Topics

• choral evensong
• episcopal clergy
• choral services
• oxford movement
• parish churches
• morning prayer
• prayer book
• chasuble
• surplice
• coronations
• wool cotton
• vestments
• brocades
• edward vi
• vestment
• chimere
• celebrants
• holy eucharist
• dioceses
• tippet

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Choir dress is different from the vestments worn by the celebrants of the eucharist, and is normally made of fabrics such as wool, cotton or silk, as opposed to the fine brocades used in vestments (with the exception of the cope, which is both a vestment and choir dress).

The so-called Ornaments Rubric permitted all the vestments that were in use during the reign of Edward VI, namely the cope, chasuble and tunicle along with the surplice and alb. By the 18th century these medieval vestments were not in general use although the cope was used for coronations and in certain cathedrals; but after the Oxford Movement in the mid-19th century they were restored in many cathedrals and parish churches. In many low-church dioceses and parishes the choir dress continued to be the norm, but in the Episcopal Church in the United States they are less frequently worn because the 1979 Prayer Book called for the Holy Eucharist as the principal Sunday service; consequently there has been a sharp reduction in the number of choral services of Morning Prayer. U. S. Episcopal Clergy could wear choir dress (or alternatively surplice and cope) for Choral Evensong, but this service has never achieved the popularity that it has enjoyed in the United Kingdom.

In evangelical dioceses and parishes they wear the choir dress (rochet, chimere and tippet).

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