Altar Boy Clothes/outfit

[dumspirospero]

You will have to please excuse me, because I don’t know the proper name for the outfit they wear, so I am just going to call it an “outfit”…anywho…Who would like to see a return to the traditional altar boy outfit? There is one parish that still uses them in my diocese, but the other ones just use the plain white “bath robe” looking outfit…Honestly, it looks like a bath robe. I prefer the black garment with the white over garment…it just looks more appropriate…does any one else agree?

 

[Lucania]

dumspirospero:

You will have to please excuse me, because I don’t know the proper name for the outfit they wear, so I am just going to call it an “outfit”…anywho…Who would like to see a return to the traditional altar boy outfit? There is one parish that still uses them in my diocese, but the other ones just use the plain white “bath robe” looking outfit…Honestly, it looks like a bath robe. I prefer the black garment with the white over garment…it just looks more appropriate…does any one else agree?

I voted yes, but in fact my Church has only Altar Boys and they wear the black/white over garment! I don’t know the proper name but I have no doubt that someone here does!

 

[dumspirospero]

Same here…the one parish I was talking about in my diocese is my home parish that I am registered in…I still visit others throughout the diocese though and they all wear the white bath robes.

Lucania:

I voted yes, but in fact my Church has only Altar Boys and they wear the black/white over garment! I don’t know the proper name but I have no doubt that someone here does!

 

[mercygate]

The black thing is a cassock. The white thing is a cotta which is a short version of the surplice.

Conscientious altar servers wouldn’t be caught dead wearing anything but black slacks, socks, and black leather shoes when vested for Mass.

There’s a lot of contemporary blah blah blah about how this is inappropriate for any but clergy to wear (when was the last time YOU saw a priest in a cassock & surplice?) but in churches that use the cassock & cotta, you are likely to find a dozen altar BOYS serving a single Mass.

Do duh math.

 

[Annunciata]

I would love to see them come back…I know the top was called a surplice and I think the bottom is called an alb…not sure…

I used to iron these with such love for my sons…then they changed to brown hooded robes…
My grandchildren were just installed as altar servers and they had
white hooded robes… Very impressive ceremony I might add…

 

[mercygate]

I tremble that smart/knowledgeable Catholics like you folks don’t know what those garments are called.

It only takes one generation to kill something.

 

[dumspirospero]

I am glad someone around here knows what the outfit is called I can always count on you mercygate to have the answers LOL

mercygate:

The black thing is a cassock. The white thing is a cotta which is a short version of the surplice.

Conscientious altar servers wouldn’t be caught dead wearing anything but black slacks, socks, and black leather shoes when vested for Mass.

There’s a lot of contemporary blah blah blah about how this is inappropriate for any but clergy to wear (when was the last time YOU saw a priest in a cassock & surplice?) but in churches that use the cassock & cotta, you are likely to find a dozen altar BOYS serving a single Mass.

Do duh math.

 

[mercygate]

dumspirospero:

I am glad someone around here knows what the outfit is called I can always count on you mercygate to have the answers LOL

Your beloved Mercygate is always delighted to do whatever she can. :angel1:

She has a fairly comprehensive knowledge of ecclesiastical haberdashery – although she is now trying to figure out the details of the monsigniorial garments related to the title “Prelate of Honor” since her confessor has just been elevated to this dignity.

 

[Jaded]

dumspirospero:

You will have to please excuse me, because I don’t know the proper name for the outfit they wear, so I am just going to call it an “outfit”…anywho…Who would like to see a return to the traditional altar boy outfit? There is one parish that still uses them in my diocese, but the other ones just use the plain white “bath robe” looking outfit…Honestly, it looks like a bath robe. I prefer the black garment with the white over garment…it just looks more appropriate…does any one else agree?

Our priest refers to it as the “bed sheet”. He’s already said that when they are replaced they will be the cassock and surplice.

 

[netmilsmom]

mercygate:

There’s a lot of contemporary blah blah blah about how this is inappropriate for any but clergy to wear (when was the last time YOU saw a priest in a cassock & surplice?) but in churches that use the cassock & cotta, you are likely to find a dozen altar BOYS serving a single Mass.

Do duh math.

You must be spying at my parish!
We were singled out on EWTN for having 200 Altar Boys.

God Bless Father Ben.

 

[SnorterLuster]

Around here, our altar boys always wore black cassocks. I remember seeing pictures of altar boys wearing red cassocks. Anyone know why the difference in colors?

The altar boys at my TLM chapel wear the traditional gear so I didn’t vote either way.

 

[Annunciata]

mercygate:

Your beloved Mercygate is always delighted to do whatever she can. :angel1:

She has a fairly comprehensive knowledge of ecclesiastical haberdashery – although she is now trying to figure out the details of the monsigniorial garments related to the title “Prelate of Honor” since her confessor has just been elevated to this dignity.

…I think it’s called Monsignor Rose the color… At least that’s what the Msgr. I once worked for called it…

 

[JKirkLVNV]

mercygate:

Conscientious altar servers wouldn’t be caught dead wearing anything but black slacks, socks, and black leather shoes when vested for Mass.

What, you mean even the GIRLS?!?!?!? You don’t think they should be allowed to wear gel sandals and slides with skinny little raised heels that make a distinctive click-click-click-clickety-freaking-click when crossing the marble-floored Sanctuary? What about the brightly embroidered oriental house shoe things, in which one must, again on marble, slide about as though on skates or skis? Black leather wouldn’t go with the kickier, more distinctive headbands and ribbons. I’m surprised at your anti-diluvian, pre-“spirit of Vatican II,” hopelessly-stuck-in-the-middle- ages mindset, Mercygate. As penance, you will take my two teenaged nieces on a shopping trip to the mall from 12:00-5:00 Saturday next. They will be equiped with cell phones and chewing gum. May God have mercy on your soul.

 

[mercygate]

SnorterLuster:

Around here, our altar boys always wore black cassocks. I remember seeing pictures of altar boys wearing red cassocks. Anyone know why the difference in colors?

The altar boys at my TLM chapel wear the traditional gear so I didn’t vote either way.

In some places red used to designate choristers in training. It wasn’t (in my admittedly limited experience) for altar boys. Anybody else on this?

 

[Annunciata]

JKirkLVNV:

What, you mean even the GIRLS?!?!?!? You don’t think they should be allowed to wear gel sandals and slides with skinny little raised heels that make a distinctive click-click-click-clickety-freaking-click when crossing the marble-floored Sanctuary? What about the brightly embroidered oriental house shoe things, in which one must, again on marble, slide about as though on skates or skis? Black leather wouldn’t go with the kickier, more distinctive headbands and ribbons. I’m surprised at your anti-diluvian, pre-“spirit of Vatican II,” hopelessly-stuck-in-the-middle- ages mindset, Mercygate. As penance, you will take my two teenaged nieces on a shopping trip to the mall from 12:00-5:00 Saturday next. They will be equiped with cell phones and chewing gum. May God have mercy on your soul.

Well, JKirk,
One of my grandchildren who was just installed as an altar server is a lovely young lady of 12 and I can assure you that she wore modest flats… and had no ribbons in her hair…just a rubber band which pulled her hair back from her face…
I’m very proud of her.

 

[mercygate]

Annunciata:

Well, JKirk,
One of my grandchildren who was just installed as an altar server is a lovely young lady of 12 and I can assure you that she wore modest flats… and had no ribbons in her hair…just a rubber band which pulled her hair back from her face…
I’m very proud of her.

Good points all. Girls: (I don’t like 'em on the altar but, heck, we got 'em), no jewelry, no hair ornaments. Come to think of it, this applies to boys also. Take out those ear studs, guys.

 

[Lucania]

mercygate:

The black thing is a cassock. The white thing is a cotta which is a short version of the surplice.

Conscientious altar servers wouldn’t be caught dead wearing anything but black slacks, socks, and black leather shoes when vested for Mass.

There’s a lot of contemporary blah blah blah about how this is inappropriate for any but clergy to wear (when was the last time YOU saw a priest in a cassock & surplice?) but in churches that use the cassock & cotta, you are likely to find a dozen altar BOYS serving a single Mass.

Do duh math.

Thanks mercygate! I heard of a cassock but not the name cotta.:tiphat:

 

[mercygate]

JKirkLVNV:

As penance, you will take my two teenaged nieces on a shopping trip to the mall from 12:00-5:00 Saturday next. They will be equiped with cell phones and chewing gum. May God have mercy on your soul.

Yeah. I meant even the girls! I used to be a choir mom when I was an Episcopalian. AKA DRILL sergeant!

On my vocational aptitude/achievement/interest tests I scored off-the-chart high (I mean REALLY high) for two professions: Roman Catholic Priest and Army Officer.

Bring on those dudettes! I’ll have them processing noiselessly in black pumps and socks, with perfect posture, in perfectly even lines, without wobbling or swaying, or winking at the congregation, or scratching themselves, without chewing gum, and they will bow and cross themselves at all the appropriate places – and they will LOVE it!

 

[Annunciata]

mercygate:

Good points all. Girls: (I don’t like 'em on the altar but, heck, we got 'em), no jewelry, no hair ornaments. Come to think of it, this applies to boys also. Take out those ear studs, guys.

Exactly. My granddaughter is doing it for my 8 year old grandson to encourage him…he needed a little push and by her going along w/ him helped so much… I could tell that she wasn’t as confident on the altar as he was…(he looked right at home)…

 

[space_ghost]

…i sure wouldn’t mind a return, especially now since churches are air conditioned…

i think everyone looks and act sharper when appropriately attired…

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