At the dress shop, the dressmaker makes the dresses... This simplistic phrase designates 3 elements :
The dress
This is the room of the monastery where dresses and other clothes are made. It can be seen on the plan of the monastery, close to the workers' gate.
The dresser
It is the sister who is in charge of making the dresses and other pieces of clothing. Thus Céline was a robière, after Sr Aimée of Jesus, Sr Fébronie, and several others including the foundress Mother Geneviève. The work requires skill and charity, at a time when the sewing machine had not yet arrived in the monasteries.
Dresses
The term designates the main element of the dress itself, but in the roberie, the dressmaker also makes all the other parts of the dress. A surprising mosaic constitutes the Carmelite habit and it takes no less than a large manuscript notebook of 133 pages (21,5 X 17,5 cm) to describe it with precision for the robes.
Click here to see what the Carmelite habit looked like at the end of the XNUMXth century.
