Get me to the church in style
What should a woman priest wear?
The first Anglican women priests were ordained in Britain in 1994. There were just 32 of them then; there are now 1,380 in the Anglican communion around the world.
They often choose traditional cassocks for services. But there are no strict rules for their civvies.
A woman priest is caught in a bit of a bind: she can’t dress too sexily, flamboyantly, expensively, cheaply. ‘Once you have to put on clothes, you differentiate yourself – and, in my case anyway, you go through years of self-consciousness. Had we all remained naked, none of this would have happened.’
