Simple Vows (3 years) becomes a junior professed monk and wears the full Carthusian habit.

Most teachers are nuns in full habit, and every day the entire school goes to chapel for Latin Mass, from 11:20 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

"You just don't see this side of religious service anymore, with the nuns in full habit and chanting so beautifully," said one guest.

Only the last, the Schemamonk or Schemanun, the monastic of the highest degree, wears the full habit.

For a couple of years, I wore a full habit, complete with wimple and oxford shoes.

During part of their history, the lay affiliates of the Carmelites wore the white mantle which the friars wore, or even the full habit.

Sister Ohari, they said, was dressed in a full white habit, including veil, when she left the convent.

She wears a full black habit - "How would you like to lug around 20 pounds of gabardine on a hot day?"

Clad in full habits, the nuns answered the judge with a nod.

At their pre-trial hearing, the nuns, dressed in full habits, engaged in silent protest by only answering the judge with a nod.