page_title: Choir dress
hierarchical_section_title: Choir dress
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Heilig Bloedprocessie - Enkele kanunniken van het Sint-Salvatorskapittel te Brugge, 2008. vlnr. Leo Declerck Adelbert Denaux Paul Lambrecht Filip Debruyne Kris Depoortere Daniël Quartier
context_page_description: Choir dress is the traditional vesture of the clerics, seminarians and religious of Christian churches worn for public prayer and the administration of the sacraments except when celebrating or concelebrating the Eucharist. It differs from the vestments worn by the celebrants of the Eucharist, being normally made of fabrics such as wool, cotton or silk, as opposed to the fine brocades used in vestments. It may also be worn by lay assistants such as acolytes and choirs. It was abandoned by most of the Churches which originated in the sixteenth-century Reformation.
  Like Eucharistic vestments it derived originally from the formal secular dress of the Roman Empire in the first centuries of the Christian era which survived in church usage after fashion had changed.
  Choir dress also differs from "house dress" which is worn outside of a liturgical context. House dress may be either formal or informal.
context_section_description: Choir dress is the traditional vesture of the clerics, seminarians and religious of Christian churches worn for public prayer and the administration of the sacraments except when celebrating or concelebrating the Eucharist. It differs from the vestments worn by the celebrants of the Eucharist, being normally made of fabrics such as wool, cotton or silk, as opposed to the fine brocades used in vestments. It may also be worn by lay assistants such as acolytes and choirs.  It was abandoned by most of the Churches which originated in the sixteenth-century Reformation.
  Like Eucharistic vestments it derived originally from the formal secular dress of the Roman Empire in the first centuries of the Christian era which survived in church usage after fashion had changed.
  Choir dress also differs from "house dress" which is worn outside of a liturgical context (whether in the house or on the street). House dress may be either formal or informal.
caption: Roman Catholic secular canons in choir dress: cassock, rochet, mozzetta, and pectoral cross on chain.
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