vestments

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More recently, in 2025, the vestments of Catholic priests inspired Dolce & Gabbana’s menswear collection.

From Salon • May 17, 2026

The objects, which include richly embroidered vestments and lavishly sculpted monstrances, Eucharist thrones and sanctuary lamps made of jewel-studded precious metals, are eye-catchingly high Baroque.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025

Meanwhile, the elaborate vestments that were designed by costume designer Lisy Christl shifted his movements.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2024

Draped in traditional Indian vestments, Karvardi’s preserved body stands in the Zebu Museum in Uberaba, the city in Brazil’s agricultural heartland where Viatina-19 lives.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2024

When we played make-believe, I’d put a sheet over my shoulders and pretend I was walking down long corridors, saying my beads, in my starched vestments.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez