Cassock and Surplice... where to buy?
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
    Posts: 6,477
    I suddenly have a need for a Anglican-choir Cassock and Surplice for myself.

    I've been looking online, but the problem with that is:
    -Dealers of liturgical vestments have really bad websites
    -All pictures of cassocks look essentially the same

    I'm tallish and pudgy, too- so those one-size-fits-all cheapies are almost certainly not going to work.

    Does anyone have recommendations for where to buy decent C&S from online or catalog?
    Anyone know of a brick-and-mortar vestments place in the Dallas-Fort-Worth area?
  • M. Jackson Osborn
    Posts: 8,413
    The C.M. Almy Company may still offer their custom 'year rounder', a really fine, half-lined cassock with pockets, cuffs, and a dust fringe around the skirt.
    I suggest that you get in touch with them about their multiple cassocks and choirmaster-organists' surplices in multiple price ranges.


    Another very good (perhaps preferable) firm is J. Wilpple & Co. Ltd. (Wippell's). They are British with an American location as follows -

    Tel.: 1-877-947-7355 - Ask for Mark Hoyer
    Fax: 1-800-525-3749
    1 Mill Street (P.O. Box 468)
    Branchville, New Jersey: 07826

    Other good firms are always advertised along-side the articles in The New Liturgical Movement
  • kevinfkevinf
    Posts: 1,190
    I second the Almy folks. Good price when I bought mine some years ago ( and when I was thinner).
  • Daniel Bennett PageDaniel Bennett Page
    Posts: 835
    Renzetti's in Philadelphia is great: excellent work and reasonable prices for what you get.
    http://www.clergyapparel.com/
    [this is not a paid endorsement LOL]
  • Michael O'Connor
    Posts: 1,637
    We got ours from Matthew Sheehan. Great service and the best prices.

    http://www.matthewfsheehan.net/index.cfm?event=CategoryFeatured&CategoryID=104
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