I've just ordered a couple of fair trade clergy shirts. My every-day shirts are getting transluscent and greeny-black so I'm overdue.
What gives with these young English clergy tromping around in grubby blue jeans, tho? I wear my grubby blue jeans too when I'm with people I know really well but they're generally worn with the requisite Hawaiian shirt.
Folks would have a fit if I showed up somewhere with my top bits housed in a clergy shirt and my bottom bits looking like the Marlboro Man. Somebody here is not comfortable looking like a priest. It's more about him than it is about anybody else. That's why we had curacies in the old day. You got all this ambivalent bullshit dealt with. The head teacher at the local High School wouldn't let me in the door to do an assembly dressed like this and he'd be right. Jeez!
Jane Eddy, 84, of Middlebury, Vermont
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Perhaps it is his day off and he just wants to wear jeans. LOL.
That's where the Hawaiian shirt comes in. I mean they issue you with a Hawaiian shirt at your ordination specifically to wear on your day off with your blue jeans when you walk down to the shops to get your paper.
It's got to be said, Jeans are a hell of a lot better than the nasty black school trouser type things that most priests wear...no reason whatsover to conclude it's more about him...actually it might be more about being approachable to the people he's ministering too...
I'm a (not so secret) Jeans wearing priest and i've never had a complaint...
For evangelicals jeans are compulsory
Things are so much simpler when you wear nothing but a cassock
Hello? Black Levis anyone?
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