Christening Gifts
Baptismal clothing is apparel worn by Christian proselytes (and in some cases, by clergy members also) during the ceremony of baptism.
In the Roman Catholic Church, most of those born into the faith are baptized as infants. The traditional clothing for a child being baptised into the Roman Catholic faith is a christening gown, a very long, white infants' garment now ersatz especially for the ceremony of christening and most often only worn then. They are in fact the normal, or at Christening Gifts least "best", outer clothing of Western babies until about the 19th century.
