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Nun's New Look: Religious Dress Is Modernized

Nun's New Look: Religious Dress Is Modernized
Clip: 426685_1_1
Year Shot: 1965 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1737
Original Film: 038-053-03
HD: N/A
Location: New York, New York
Timecode: 00:27:36 - 00:28:38

In line with the modernizing of the Roman Catholic Church, the dress of Nuns is being revised. New habits are shorter and more adapted to this modern age. One Nun, for example, finds the new dress much more suitable to her trips aboard a scooter. In a filled auditorium there sits an audience of school age children and Nuns. A Nun dressed in a white habit, this Nun and other Nuns are of the Franciscan Order. Franciscan Nun camera pans down and shows she is wearing sandals with no stockings. Two Nuns of different orders standing side by side. A Nun walks out wearing a revised version of the new habit the Nuns will wear. A Nun who is a Medical Doctor wearing a white dress but has the veil on only its modernized. Nun comes around the corner driving a motor scooter.