Choir Robes & Award Shows

Has anyone noticed that lately you can find choir robes everywhere but your local church? The new trend has become matching outfits.. lol So I've put my time in over the years and I know all about robes and these matching outfits.. Choir rehearsals ends and someone yells out, "so what we posed to wear on sunday?" The director scratches his head and says. .."hmmm how bout red? ..yeah let's do red." So everyone spends their weekend trying to piece (and I do mean piece) together these red outfits. The worst.. lol... that works if you have a praise team of six but the whole choir?? Can we take it back to the days of white tops and black bottoms?? I'm just saying...
The funny thing is the only place that I see choir robes these days are behind secular artist at award shows? What is that?? Mariah Carey, Justin Timberlake, Beyoncé Knowles,and Kanye West flanked by FULL choirs singing the hook to their latest hook with a bit of extra churchy vibrato? Obviously the robes are not that expensive since these labels are ordering custom robes for one show... hmm..

I hear all complaints about robes.. they're hot, they're heavy, they're ugly... etc, etc. They aren't that hot. Robes are no more hot then those polyester suits and synthetic gator shoes from K&G. One of the reasons churches adopted robes in the first place was to alleviate the cost of having to constantly be in a new outfit while still providing a unified look. The key reason is that the difference between being on stage at church and being on stage at the Apollo is that church is not about you. It's not about your voice. Your runs. Your personal sense of style. It's not about your curves or your muscles. It's about singing praises to God and edifying the people under the sound of your voice.

Y'all let me know if you need help selling chicken dinners so we can get some new robes..

Here's some interesting information on the origin of choir gowns, church vestments, choral uniforms and outfits.

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