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Episcopalians, Lutherans, and some Methodists have rediscovered rituals, ornaments, and clerical vestments (the "rags of popery" of Protestant polemic) discarded during the Reformation.
In the old days, all paper was made of cotton rags, hence the name.
And with notes of pride, those rags that have earned pejorative names in the local lore use those sobriquets in private correspondence, saloon chat, and unofficial résumés.
The Times has steadily lost its place among the great rags, thanks mainly to the laughingstock way in which it has has been "reinvented."
One imagines that discriminating people in the 16 th century mourned the death of high fashion in much the same way, when slashed sleeves, grotesquely imitating the rags of mercenary soldiers, came into style.