Love the Charity hat!!! Will it ever return? What a horrible mistake taking the nuns out of those beautiful habits. They just aren’t the same!!! Same as for nurses..no more caps!! How do you tell who is a nurse in the hospital??? You can’t!!! We are regressing big time!! I always wore My cap..even after most nurses retired theirs. The nurses loved see me in full uniform!! D Ways

These Sisters taught me at Primary School. Sister Francis was my Best Teacher.She always had a smile and a good personality.

The reform, it all went down hill from there

These good nuns were my first teachers, and inspired me to the priesthood. I wonder how many of them every knew that one of their little boys eventually made protonotary apostolic.

Aw, Sr. Bertrill "The Flying Nun"

Our nuns wore dignified looking habits until the 1960's. Then they switched to modified habits with veils and dresses that still went below the knee. Eventually this changed to knee length dresses and even shorter veils, with one of the nuns wearing hers on top of a big bouffant hairdo. I remember one of these nuns speaking with a student on a windy day. The sister had to keep one hand on her little veil and one on her skirts. The student wore the then popular "maxi-coat" and was unruffled. Then the nuns switched to lay clothes and looked like frumpy Edwardian nannies. Finally they went whole hog and started wearing pants, makeup, jewelry, smoking, and getting their hair done. To identify as "nuns", they wore a teeny little pin on their lapel or blouse, then even this became optional because they didn't want to make anyone uncomfortable". After this they moved out of the convent and into an apartment. They took lay jobs, increased participation in social action, gave up teaching, and basically lived like laywomen, but for their celibacy. Some of them left the order, some left the church. Do I blame changing habits or a lack of habits for this? Not totally, there were other factors involved as well, but the habit DID play a roll in identifying nuns AS nuns to the public, being in effect a "witness" to their calling, making them visible, serving as a reminder of non-earthly things; it created a visual sense of community in which all sisters were equal; it freed the sisters from having to worry about their clothes and from competing; it reminded the sisters of who they were, who they represented, and how they were to conduct themselves. Thank God that some orders today are readopting the habit. That, coupled with an inner renewal regarding the meaning of consecrated life, has them flourishing while others wither.

As an orphan in one of their orphanages in Ireland, we went to bed one night and got up next morning to see the Nuns had changed their habits. Gone were their silly white hats to be replaced by the new Navy blue box hats. We thought the last lot had left! yes around 1964 too!

I loved being taught by the DCs unfortunately many have shed the habit altogether

It would make sense to keep the traditional habit for devotions. And wear a streamlined modern outfit for work. I've never heard of that being tried. Anyone know why?

They were just supposed to get rid of flamable habits and things that weren't naturally simple, God save the sacred wimple.

This happened many years ago.

no sound

Wimples

Those white ones look absolutely ridiculous.

You have to be kidding !!! No sound nor Arrangement !!!

My Grandfather calls those hats “sailing ships”.

Sad times, the beginning of destruction of religious live

Your gonna start flying like the Flying Nun.

Well spell the gear correctly in your propaganda...

Cette cornette , quelle horreur d'obliger des femmes à s'affubler de cette façon, et puis pas très commode quand il vente fort !

Weird habits....well...different strokes...for different folks.....lol

Bad habit.

The female Klu Klux Clan.

What silly looking hats! Mad hatter. Bad habit.