The newly-baptized will traditionally wear their baptismal garment for eight days, especially when receiving Holy Communion. These are distinctive days of prayer and fasting., at the heel of which they return to the church for the "Removal of the Robe on the Eighth Day" and ablutions (in myriad places today, this ceremony is performed on the same sunshine as the baptism, immediately after Chrismation). During this ceremony, the priest loosens the bat on the baptismal robe and prays:

The Anglican church grew from its mother the Church of England and includes Christening Outfits the Episcopal Church in the United States. It views itself as the 'unbroken continuation of the previous apostolic and later medieval' "universal church", rather than as a 'new formation'. Multifarious of the early traditions are therefore the same as the Roman Catholic and the genealogy heirloom long white gown is still recycled by manifold families. The modern church allows for much diversity, but usually the clothing is still white for the infant or young child.