[GravityFree]

Fascinating information and thank you for posting it ! ! !

[dangus]

if ever you find yourself traveling through Atlantic Canada, the Acadian Coast, centered around Caraquet, is both beautiful and has many amazing Catholic treasures. (Travel NORTH for summer vacations!) One of them is the Pope Museum. Apparently a former war hero, successful entrepreneur and former mayor, before he died, built a wonderful museum (as well as a nearby sanctuary garden of Divine Mercy). The museum included traditional clothes of dozens of the principle religious orders... as well as reproductions of paintings of the popes, the papal crests, historical artifacts, a scale model of the Vatican / St. Peter’s, including all of the hundreds of statues...

[Houghton M.]

Everyone should be sure to check out part I of this series—it has the necessary explanations of the various technical terms for the articles of clothing.

[Oratam]

This explains what I thought was an error on the part of the director of the film The Mission which had a visiting cardinal traveling about in what I considered a late 18th century business suit. It all makes sense now. The director and costume designers got it absolutely right. Thank you for posting.