*Comically enough, and for what it might be worth to fanatics of extreme psychological analysis of the impact of gender confusion, many priests in those days still wore the traditional soutane—the black, multibuttoned dresslike cassock. For them, bicycle manufacturers continued to sell the modèlé ecclésiastique, basically a woman’s bike but heftier, and diplomatically shorn of the high central bar that would raise skirts to shockingly immodest heights above the priests’ knees.