Both a wife and a nun wore veils, which proclaimed their state of protection by the rights of marriage.

In the Greek tradition, nuns do not normally wear a kalimavkion, but rather just the veil.

Russian nuns also wear the kamilavka with veil.

In some countries, nuns wear dark chocolate robes or sometimes the same colour as monks.

But how do we know what nuns usually wear?

And-always-she wore very thick, opaque black stockings, the kind a nun might wear.

The nuns wore short blue robes, and blue and white veils.

The nuns wore always the same habit.

She appears only once, as a homely nun in mourning wearing a black habit.

The nuns wear a white habit and a large silver cross on the breast.