@inbook{10.5149/9781469614106_dwyer-mcnulty.8, ISBN = {9781469614090}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469614106_dwyer-mcnulty.8}, abstract = {As American Catholics approached the middle of the twentieth century, identifiable dress, particularly among students, could be observed more and more frequently. Catholic leaders fully expected priests, sisters, and female students, especially, to dress in church-or school-regulated ways. Nevertheless, society viewed almost all Catholic clothing locally, congregationally, or regionally until the 1930s. For instance, Catholics and other Americans would see distinctive attire such as chasubles, cassocks, habits, and school uniforms in places such as churches and parish processions, on the dais of important dedications, or even perhaps just walking down the street. But a variety of factors converged between the}, bookauthor = {SALLY DWYER-MCNULTY}, booktitle = {Common Threads: A Cultural History of Clothing in American Catholicism}, pages = {129--168}, publisher = {University of North Carolina Press}, title = {OUTFITTING THE MYSTICAL BODY OF CHRIST: APPAREL AND ACTIVISM}, year = {2014} }