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Common threads : a cultural history of clothing in American Catholicism / Sally Dwyer-McNulty.

by Dwyer-McNulty, Sally.

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Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, c2014.

Catholic Church -- United States.

Catholics -- Religious identity -- United States.

Catholics -- Clothing -- United States.

Clothing and dress -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.

9781469614090 (cloth : alk. paper)

146961409X (cloth : alk. paper)

xiii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Introduction. The origins and significance of Catholic clothing in America -- The clothes make the man : clerical and liturgical garmenture, 1830s-1930s -- Women religious on American soil : adaptation or authority in nineteenth-century America -- School uniforms : a new look for Catholic girls -- Outfitting the mystical body of Christ : apparel and activism -- Tearing at the seams : the clothes no longer fit -- Epilogue. Beyond the 1970s.

A well-illustrated cultural history of the apparel worn by American Catholics, Sally Dwyer-McNulty's Common threads reveals the transnational origins and homegrown significance of clothing in developing identity, unity, and a sense of respectability for a major religious group that had long struggled for its footing in a Protestant-dominated society often openly hostile to Catholics. Focusing on those who wore the most visually distinct clothes--priests, women religious, and schoolchildren--the story begins in the 1830s, when most American priests were foreign born and wore a variety of clerical styles. Dwyer-McNulty tracks and analyzes changes in Catholic clothing all the way through the twentieth century and into the present, which finds the new Pope Francis choosing to wear plain black shoes rather than ornate red ones.--Back cover.

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