Choir dress is the traditional vesture of the
clerics,
seminarians and
religious of
Christian churches worn for public prayer and the administration of the sacraments except when celebrating or
concelebrating the
Eucharist. It differs from the
vestments worn by the celebrants of the Eucharist, being normally made of fabrics such as wool, cotton or silk, as opposed to the fine
brocades used in vestments. It may also be worn by lay assistants such as acolytes and choirs. It was abandoned by most of the Churches which originated in the sixteenth-century
Reformation