This is me, Eccles

This is me, Eccles
This is me, Eccles

Sunday 1 March 2015

What colour is this dress?

This week's Internet sensation was caused by arguments over the colour of a rather ugly dress. It seems that different people saw it in different ways, and there was no consensus.

Some say the dress below is purple, which would be the liturgically correct colour for Lent. Others see different colours: white, red, blue, green...

Jefferts Schori

What colour dress is this woman wearing?

The photo is a source of further optical illusions, in that some people see a woman wearing a bishop's mitre, whereas others see a clown in a silly hat. Then is that a cross she is carrying or a pitchfork? Stare at it for 30 seconds and see what you think.

Said one celebrity, Justin Biebly of Canterbury, "Obviously it's a multicoloured dress that the lady is wearing; those are the liturgically correct vestments for All Fools' Day." However, many others see it differently.

The model wearing the dress is Kathy Schori, 60, a professional bishop-o-gram entertainer. She is available for weddings, funerals, and other happy occasions.

Jefferts Schori again

Kiss me, Kate! Another controversial dress.

6 comments:

  1. I really had to laugh at the description of the dress as being liturgically correct for All Fools Day!

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  2. At last a propper bishop. Unlike that dreadful Cardinal Vince Knickers, whose only contribution to Lent spirituality seems to be making sure people vote Labour in the general election.

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  3. A patriarch gives it the thumbs up


    http://www.kidzrus.net/News/jason-in-coat-long.jpg

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  4. The expression on the lady's face in the lower photograph does suggest to me that she is in some way aware of looking foolish. As to the vestments, did she get the idea from an amateur company's production of Joseph and The Technicolour Dreamcoat?

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  5. Why yes, Bishop Schori. I would like fries with that.

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  6. I wish her photograph did not appear with the clergy in the porch of a former Anglo-Catholic Church , St Matthew, Westminster.

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