Clerical Collars reprised

One of the strange things that my wed stats shows up is that there is a constant trickle of visits to a post I made on clerical collars quite a while back. As far as I can tell they are mostly following a link from Paradoxology.

Anyway, the linked article is a very brief history of the clerical collar; mostly surprisingly recent. I take it that, assuming the relevant CofE canon goes back a good way, the canonical injunction to wear always a mark of clerical office originally had in mind cassocks. Or was there some other mark? Anyway, it leaves open to interpretation and interaction with cultural mores how it is fulfilled.

Part of the interest of having a wife now ordained is that, being a creative soul, she also has been thinking about how to mark the office but in ways that aren't the normal collar and shirt. One of the more interesting ideas, more suitable for a woman, is a kind of metal neckband with a white oblong at the front, a sort of metal necklace. But she's also making a less heavy clerical necklace using wire and beads. This is not unlike my own idea in the aforementioned post, for a white oblong to go in front of a polo shirt top button.
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