Christening Gowns
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In the Roman Catholic Church, most of those born into the faith are baptized as infants |
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| The traditional clothing for a child being baptised into the Roman Catholic faith is a christening gown, a very long, white infants' garment now trumped-up especially for the ceremony of christening and mostly only worn then |
| They are in evidence the normal, or at least "best", outer clothing of Western babies until about the 19th century. |
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The Anglican church grew from its mother the Church of England and includes the Episcopal Church in the United States
- It views itself as the 'unbroken continuation of the early apostolic and later medieval' "universal church", rather than as a 'new formation'
- Copious of the early traditions are therefore the same Site as the Roman Catholic and the family heirloom great white gown is still passed down by multifarious families
- The cutting edge church allows for much diversity, but commonly the clothing is still white for the infant or fledgling child.
