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Chaperon is a diminutive of chape, which derives, like the English cap, cape and cope, from the Late Latin cappa, which already could mean cap, cape or hood ().. The tail of the hood, often quite long, was called the tippit [2] or liripipe in English, and liripipe or cornette in French.
Man wearing a chaperon, Italy, late 14th century. During this century, the chaperon made a transformation from being a utilitarian hood with a small cape to becoming a complicated and fashionable hat worn by the wealthy in town settings. This came when they began to be worn with the opening for the face placed instead on the top of the head.
His bag-shaped hat has a rolled brim and is decorated with a jewel. Early 15th century. Young man wears a draped chaperon and a dark robe over a reddish doublet. Note the characteristic high front neckline compared to the back neckline, Florence, 1425. A chaperon worn in elaborate twists, 1433.
Chapeau-bras, also chapeau-de-bras – 18th- to early-19th-century folding bicorne hat carried under one arm; Chaperon – a series of hats that evolved in 14th- and 15th-century Europe from the medieval hood of the same name; Cocked hat; Colback – a fur headpiece of Turkish origin
Portrait of a Young Man (Tymotheos) by Jan van Eyck, 1432.The liripipe is draped forward at left (subject's right). A liripipe (/ ˈ l ɪ r ɪ ˌ p aɪ p /) [note 1] is an element of clothing, the tail of a hood or cloak, or a long-tailed hood.
Later on, capes were common in medieval Europe, especially when combined with a hood in the chaperon. They have had periodic returns to fashion – for example, in nineteenth-century Europe. Catholic clergy wear a type of cape known as a ferraiolo, which is worn for formal events outside a ritualistic context.
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Man in the short, hooded cape called a cappa or chaperon, c. 1250–70. Musicians wear two long tunics, one over the other. The tunic on the left is an early example of mi-parti or particolored clothing, made from two fabrics.