Word: wearings
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...iPod generation, it doesn't get more radical than wearing a veil. The hijab worn by traditional Muslim women might have people talking, but it's the wimple that really turns heads. And in the U.S. today, the nuns most likely to wear that headdress are the ones young enough to have a playlist...
That radicalism is, ironically, embodied by the wearing of the veil. Decreed unnecessary by Vatican II and shed happily by many older nuns, the headdress is for many of today's newcomers a desired accessory. "A lot of my older sisters would never wear the veil," says Sister Sarah Roy, 29, who is the only member of her Sisters of St. Francis of the Immaculate Conception in Peoria, Ill., to do so. (The others wear a simple dark dress adorned by a pin.) Though she admits "people just stare at you like you're a freak," she adds...
Newer nuns see the veil as a public expression of faith, says Cheryl Reed, author of Unveiled: Inside the Hidden Lives of Nuns. "You can understand why a woman who has given up sex, freedom and money would want to wear her wedding dress--which is what they consider their habits to be. You want to say, 'I'm special. I gave this...
Delude yourselves with a sense of pride; go ahead, pretend you’re a Harvard student for the weekend. Wear Crimson; no one will question you. It’s better than choosing Princeton as a new rival and finding out that you’re not even second best...
...Smith in the show) bring new insights to Arkley's work by exploring the carnival theme. From his Zappo heads to his aborted 1985 exhibition of masked portraits to his fluoro rendition of the Prince of Darkness, Nick Cave, 1999, Arkley was forever fascinated by the masks people must wear...