‘Clergy couture’ range launched for fashion-conscious female priests

May 21, 2016 by

by John Bingham, Telegraph:

The struggle by female clergy to be admitted to the upper ranks of the Established Church took decades but changed the face of the once crusty male-dominated institution forever.

Now they are being enlisted in a new, more subtle, fight but one which could – in its own way – have a profound effect on the how the Church of England is seen for decades to come.

It is the battle of taste.

Almost a quarter of a century after the Church first approved the ordination of women as priests and 18 months after the arrival of the first female bishops, stirrings of rebellion are finally reaching the surface against the traditional clerical look.

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