Talk:Rochet

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Is is just me, or does this article have more pictures that it really needs...? Anyone care to comment? --Entoaggie09 05:24, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I thought it was excessive, too. I jettisoned a couple. fishhead64 14:48, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Good call. Looks much better now. --Entoaggie09 20:32, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Just what do you do when almost everything in the article is dead wrong. In Anglican churches the rochet is used in three different forms all of which have a very long history. The first and simplest is the sleeved rochet which in the late seventeenth century grew to have very large balloone sleves when worn by bishops. But simpler sleeved rochets continued to be worn by parish clerks and acolytes in parish churches even as I did in my teens. Clerks and acolytes also wore sleeveless rochets on ocassion just as organists and choirmasters in cathedral churches frequently wore "winged" rochets. The wings were divided sleeves which allowed for greater ease in either playing the organ or directing the choir. Illustrations of all these can be found in Percy Dearmer's The Parson's Handbook. And, yes, the current Archbishop of Canterbury along with a number of other Anglican bishops have revived the wearing of a simpler sleeved rochet after the fashion of the middle ages just as the current bishop of Rome has reverted to wearing older and more classical version of episcopal vesture. Fashion does effect even the church and clerics with some sense of history and style sometimes decide to revert to earlier usage.`Warham (talk) 02:44, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Removed picture of sleeve-gathered rochet


That might be an example, worn by a cardinal. I am in favour of removing the Anglican/Latin rite Catholic distinction and merely stating that "Anglican" forms are retentions of old forms since abandoned by the Catholics. 118.90.109.178 (talk) 23:26, 9 December 2009 (UTC)