Fashion interest in nuns’ habits opens door to Broadway for theater professor

Fashion interest in nuns’ habits opens door to Broadway for theater professor

(OSV News) — In the pleats, cuffs and hems of the habits of the Sisters of Charity of New York, theater professor Darrin Pufall Purdy found a type of calling of his own. While attempting to reconstruct habits worn by nuns for the theater production of the play “Doubt: A Parable,” which prominently features the Sisters of Charity of New York in the 1950s, he found elegance and mystery looking at photos of the long black garments, derived from wid…

Fashion interest in nuns’ habits opens door to Broadway for Boise theater professor

In the pleats, cuffs and hems of the habits of the Sisters of Charity of New York, theater professor Darrin Pufall Purdy found a type of calling of his own.While attempting to reconstruct habits worn by nuns for the theater production of the play “Doubt: A Parable,” which prominently features the Sisters of Charity of New York in the 1950s, he found elegance and mystery looking at photos of the long black garments, derived from widow's clothing …

Fashion interest in nuns' habits opens door to Broadway for theater professor - The Dialog

In the pleats, cuffs and hems of the habits of the Sisters of Charity of New York, theater professor Darrin Pufall Purdy found a type of calling of his own. While attempting to reconstruct habits worn by nuns for the theater production of the play “Doubt: A Parable,” which prominently features the Sisters of Charity of New York in the 1950s, he found elegance and mystery looking at photos of the long black garments, derived from widow’s clothing…

Fashion interest in nuns' habits opens door to Broadway for theater professor - The Leaven Catholic Newspaper

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