The proper folding of a habit's cornet

[@brownmullins]

Thank you so much for sharing such a sacred moment; God bless all our spiritual leaders.

[@cumorahwatson1967]

So much patience!💐 Bless them. 😊

[@s1nead]

I ABSOLUTELY love this video! The CNDs were my high school teachers at Villa Maria Academy (1968) in the Bronx. We all LOVED their religious habit...... we were all very sad when they modified it... We always enjoyed watching the shocked reactions of others whenever we went out in public and people saw a group of CNDs in this remarkable religious habit. As someone said in the video: WHO EVER came up with this cornette?? I have noticed that MANY Canadian communities sported intricate, starched cornettes.... Does anyone really know? In her portrait, Mère Bourgeoys wore a soft kerchief ..... how did anyone devise this cornette? Although it does look similar to cornettes traditionally worn in Bretagne and Brittany..... or a medieval head dress ..... Thank you!

[@lindathrall5133]

I've seen nuns in their habit and fell in love with the long veil

[@nikitab92]

This is cool!! Thanks for showing us! 👍😁

[@psychedelicpython]

That's a lot of work. I never knew. Thank you for making this video.

[@practicewithjc]

Great job! I suppose Sister Margaret had done this so often in the past that it was like riding a bike for her. I had CND nuns in school in the '60s (Nova Scotia) and was always mismerized by their cornets. I did succeed in figuring out how to make them. I heard that tongue depressers were used on the side folds. Is that true? God they must have been uncomfortable! I think that a workshop on cornet folding should be given at the Bonsecours museum in Old Montreal. Kids would love it!

[@2klm8]

+Chonnie DesChamps Auntie Margaret did mention she put 'wood' on the side folds. I can imagine the 'wood' looked similar to a tongue depresser. I thought they looked uncomfortable too. I remember asking Auntie Margaret if it bothered her to wear it. She said she liked to wear it, it was an honor.

[@BRIRICO]

Interessting and I found out that Sr Margaret had her 100th birthday in last August. :)

[@alwellus]

I'm so glad male religious had calottes, although these were tricky to make right. I worked with different female religious, and gained a lot of insight - the common thread was that this required tucks, darts, or pinning - all of which could have been ended with a few well placed stitches.

[@psychedelicpython]

I have an aunt who used to be a nun and I have a picture of her from the 1950s(?) wearing her full dress habit with the cornet. She was a bit cranky and I can’t help but think it’s because she may have poked herself too many times with straight pins when doing her cornet...lol! What an interesting thing to have to make and wear.

[@pilardiaz1608]

Parece un trabajo de papiroflexia

[@s1nead]

I also wonder how difficult it must have been to fold this fabric when it was so heavily starched. Did the Choir Nuns fashion their own cornettes or was that job left to the Lay Sisters?

[@ivorybow]

I am so sad about the loss of the habit. When she said, "This is going to be a lost art, " my heart just cringed in sorrow.

[@patricksampson2944]

These traditional habits were not traditional when they were first used centuries ago. They were in fact very much like the common clothing ordinary women wore. Sisters at nine is now wearing for contemporary clothes

[@ivanenrile]

patrick Sampson following your logic, nuns should reupdate their clothing and start wearing bikinis and pasties or daisy dukes. or why not go topless

[@bradlifto2211]

The way women dress in many centuries the founders never follows the world idea of dressing and time of dressing issues. Yes they stay in the long traditional habits as its is. There is not single reason to change their habit. If the Blessed Mother wore long dress and covering of head. They can follow her

[@momthree789]

BRING BACK THE OLD HABITS!!!

[@susanmanjone6727]

cool can't imagine wearing those habits though

[@sharontackett1683]

I think the French hood should be the new habit!!!!😓😓😓

[@conniecharley7086]

Lived...with..nuns..they..would..wash...habit..and..iron..SAN.JOSE

[@conniecharley7086]

ALSO I lived..in..abbey..in..San..Diego.

[@davidkamen]

It is hard to believe that women not long ago walked around dressed like creatures from the dark ages. Hard to believe dressing in those habits contributed to their vocations. No wonder women today run the other way !

[@ginterka381996]

lol

[@ginterka381996]

It's not hard to believe for real catholics.

[@scootergreen3]

What silly looking hats! Mad hatter. Bad habit.

[@patricksampson2944]

Sisters and nuns who are now wearing more contemporary are actually being more faithful to what the original founders of the orders did instead of wearing outdated clothing and acting as if that's what religious means. Study history.

[@brianrichardcohn2159]

Yes, as I have understood it, many of the female founders of the order did not only wear habits until the clerics forced them to do so.