These days the surplice choices seem to be English and full or Romish and ugly. The English style is gathered up to a round yoke, which some folk consider a little fussy. Rogier van der Weyden’s Seven Sacraments Altarpiece, however, shows us that were in fact full surplices with square yokes.
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