Powder Blue

I know what you're thinking. You're thinking they've excelled themselves with this one. And you'd be right. We've revisited the biretta of the Superior of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, with a watered silk outer and silk lining, but topped with the extraordinary plumage of a Gamarelli silk pom-pom. Sometimes when all the sisters are asleep, we like to sit, quietly, just marvelling at it.

Best be going. Mother Prioress has hired in a pre-lenten devotional coach who used to be a chaplain to the Royal Marines. She's stood at the door brandishing the convent's arctic fire hose and claims she can smell pride in here...

Blue Murder

Please excuse the rather dramatic headline for this one, but we couldn’t resist. A completely blue biretta struck us as taking things to the extreme, literally getting away with blue murder, and naturally we say this not with horror and disdain but in fact our sincerest and heartfelt approbation. As you can no doubt see, it is watered silk and completely blue all over. It has a distant cousin in West London somewhere, of which more later, but in this instance it is the biretta of the superior of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, a society which we admire greatly.

Blue Blood

Back we go, to the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest. Here we present the biretta of a Monsignor of that Society, piped and lined in sky blue with a sky blue tassel.