What's your favourite colour of cassock?

[AscribeUntoTheLad]

Many years ago (over 40) I attended an R. S. C. M. residential course at Taunton, taken my the great Roy Massey. A couple of lads also on the course wore buttercup yellow cassocks but I cannot remember from which institution they came. I do recall thinking that they did not go very well with white surplices.

Did it not make them look a bit like daisies?

[Magnificat]

Yellow and white are, of course, the Papal colours.

VCC

[Don Basilio]

Cassocks are black (or red for a royal foundation). Anything else is affectation.

Liturgical colours (rose pink on two days of the year) are for vestments and hangings.

[vinteuil]

Cassocks are black (or red for a royal foundation). Anything else is affectation.

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I'm pretty sure that in the tropics cassocks were / are often white...

[Don Basilio]

Thank you, vint, I'd forgotten. And for the Bishop of Rome, God bless him.

[vinteuil]

... and of course bishops in purple and cardinals in red.

I see my copy of the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church says: " ... now usually black (formerly of various colours)..."
Unhelpfully, it doesn't specify what "formerly" means, nor indeed what "various colours" might mean.

Where should I go for fuller information?

[Nick Armstrong]

Cue one of the more amusing blogs on the internet (I've linked to one of its best comments):

http://badvestments.blogspot.com/2011/07/three-words-bishop.html

[Nick Armstrong]

Oh, definitely Rose Pink for me. Such a flattering colour! But, that is only for Guadete Sunday I think. But really, you can't have a favourite cossack colour as it's all laid down according to the Lit. Year so it's a bit academic. Personally, I dislike green which is boring

Gaudete, you say... http://badvestments.blogspot.com/201...ty-fallen.html

[Nick Armstrong]

Cassocks are black (or red for a royal foundation). Anything else is affectation.

http://badvestments.blogspot.com/201...-no-no-no.html

[Nick Armstrong]

Yellow and white are, of course, the Papal colours.

VCC

Last one for now: http://badvestments.blogspot.com/2009/08/whoops.html

[vinteuil]

oh dear: one day I am going to have to explain to brother Caliban the difference between a cassock and vestments...

In the C of E a cassock is still - I think - required for morning and evening service - for Holy Communion either cassock or alb is, it seems, permissible...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassock

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestment

[Nick Armstrong]

oh dear: one day I am going to have to explain to brother Caliban the difference between a cassock and vestments...

In the C of E a cassock is still - I think - required for morning and evening service - for Holy Communion either cassock or alb is, it seems, permissible...

Come on vinsanto, they're all frocks aren't they...? What's a chasuble between friends?

[Don Basilio]

either cassock or alb is, it seems, permissible...

alb over cassock I hope.

Without looking up canon law, I believe Holy Communion (sic) should be presided over by an episcopally ordained minister in EITHER cassock and surplice and stole OR chasuble and stole over alb and cassock. Or something like that.

[Finzi4ever]

Just before my Ely days, they wore rather fantastic white albs with hoods and white girdles (ropes around the waist, not perhaps what you were thinking!) wonderfullt monastic they looked too.

[vinteuil]

alb over cassock I hope.

Without looking up canon law, I believe Holy Communion (sic) should be presided over by an episcopally ordained minister in EITHER cassock and surplice and stole OR chasuble and stole over alb and cassock. Or something like that.

dom Basilio -

... I defer to your more detailed knowledge here. My Dictionary merely says: "... In the C of E a cassock is still required for Morning and Evening Prayer and the Occasional Offices; either a cassock or an alb may be used for the Holy Communion. ... "