The dispute between the Dominicans and Augustinians about their habit arose around 1256, the year of the Grand Union. Some Augustinian friars, such as the Bonites and the Brittin, wore a white tunic and scapular (cloister garments) even outside the convent, just like the Preaching Friars. Thus Pope Alexander IV, to avoid confusion between the two orders, with his bull Meminimus nos of 1259 forbade the Augustinians to wear clothing similar to that of the Dominicans, but to no effect. Between the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries, the Dominicans’ protests over the similarities with the Augustinians’ habit intensified, to the point that in 1597 Pope Clement VIII ruled in favor of the Dominicans. But opposition from the Augustinians led the pope to make a final decision in 1603: both orders would use the white habit inside their convents, while when they came outside and for solemn functions they would wear the black habit.