11. Habit

And  I  meant  to  say thank you  to” Pasta Fasul”  in  Mt. Marion for his offer of clothing, but we’d rather have drapes or large pieces of heavy material. We wear “off planet clothing” as we call it only when needed for safety.  Normally we wear a simple monk’s robe over our jeans, T-shirt and boots.  We make our robes.  We just sewed up a few from old drapes given to us by a local funeral parlor. 

You could call my robe a habit, for it is our official dress.  But we just call it a robe.  In medieval times that was all a monk wore, no underclothes and often no sandals.  We’re more practical, but no more wealthy than our predecessors.  I’m sure a monk from the 12^th century would have worn jeans and sneakers or boots if he had been able to get them used from a “free store” or a clothing bank as we do.