His course work included specialized studies on the history of church architecture and liturgical vesture, the role of art in worship, as well as a full year on liturgical consultation.
Before you know it, it defines our very existence by dictating our access to daylight, the vesture we employ to shield ourselves from the elements, the activities we allow ourselves.
The purpose of this vesture was originally practical, since archdeacons and bishops were presumed to be mobile, riding horses to various parts of a diocese or archdeaconry.