The Clergy Fashion Wars
I am about to wade into very dangerous territory with this post--I am going to talk about women's fashion. Deacon Greg Kandra has a post today on his Deacon's Bench blog about The Clergy Collection , a new line of clothing for female priests and ministers put out by a London fashion outfit called the House of Ilona. I will say up front that I am the least qualified person on the planet to judge these pieces from a fashion perspective. I am seriously color-blind--I can't match my own socks most of the time. To the extent I have a notion of two pieces of clothing "matching," such as a shirt and a pair of pants, it is a product of someone (usually my sisters) telling me particular colors match, as opposed to some innate sense of my own. So, no one should take my fashion analysis remotely seriously. Having said that, these outfits seem perfectly lovely and appropriate to me. It seems to me if you remove the collar, these outfits would at home in a normal...