Byzantine clothing

The mitre (Commonwealth English) or miter (American English; see spelling differences; both pronounced ; ) is a type of headgear now known as the traditional, ceremonial headdress of bishops and certain abbots in traditional Christianity. Mitres are worn in the Catholic Church, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (IOC), Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church (Jacobites), Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Anglican Communion, some Lutheran churches, for important ceremonies, by the Metropolitan of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, and also, in the Catholic Church, all cardinal

thumb|Bishop Czeslaw Kozon, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Copenhagen|Catholic bishop of Copenhagen, in pontifical liturgical vestments including the Chasuble. The chasuble () is the outermost liturgical vestment worn by clergy for the celebration of the Eucharist in Western-tradition Christian churches that use full vestments, primarily in Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran churches. In the Eastern Orthodox Church and in the Eastern Catholic Churches, the equivalent vestment is the phelonion.

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thumb|upright|A Roman Catholic deacon wearing a dalmatic and a biretta during a service in the Traditional Latin Rite thumb|upright|Ornately embroidered dalmatic (shown from the back with a collarin) The dalmatic is a long, wide-sleeved tunic, which serves as a liturgical vestment in the Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, United Methodist, and some other churches. When used, it is the proper vestment of a deacon at Mass, Holy Communion or other services such as baptism or marriage held in the context of a Eucharistic service. Although infrequent, it may also be worn by bishops above the alb and bel

thumb|upright|Statues at the "House of Cleopatra" in Delos, Greece. Woman and man wearing himations A himation ( ; ) was a type of clothing, a mantle or wrap worn by ancient Greek men and women from the Archaic period through the Hellenistic period ( BC). It was usually worn over a chiton and/or peplos, but was made of heavier drape and played the role of a cloak or shawl. When the himation was used alone, without a chiton, it served both as a chiton and as a cloak. The himation was markedly less voluminous than the Roman toga. Many vase paintings depict women wearing a himation as a veil cove

distinctive set of garments worn by members of a religious order

150px|thumb|Hermes wearing a chlamys. Painting attributed to the [[Tithonos Painter, .]]

thumb|alt=Chrysostomos of Smyrna|Icon of Saint Chrysostomos of Smyrna wearing a polystavrion (“many crosses”) phelonion.

upright|thumb|Statue of Livia Drusilla wearing a stola and palla

thumb|Fresco from the 14th century depicting St. [[Gregory the Illuminator of Armenia wearing a white omophorion.]] thumb|300px|Benjamin Peterson, archbishop of the Orthodox Church in America Diocese of Alaska, wearing an omophorion. In the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic liturgical tradition, the omophorion (, meaning "[something] borne on the shoulders"; Slavonic: омофоръ, omofor) is the distinguishing vestment of a bishop and the symbol of his spiritual and ecclesiastical authority. Originally woven of wool, it is a band of brocade decorated with four crosses and an eight-pointed star

thumb|Epitrachelion The epitrachelion ( "around the neck"; Slavic: Епитрахи́ль - Epitrakhíl’; often called simply a stole in casual English-language usage) is the liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole. It is essentially the orarion adapted for priests and bishops, worn around the neck with two ends of equal length hanging down in front of the clergyman's body (more or less to the ankle) and with the two adjacent sides sewn or buttoned together up the center, leav

thumb|Embroidered palitza (photograph c. 1911 by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii). thumb|Fresco of St [[Gregory the Illuminator wearing a gold epigonation (the half-visible rhombus behind the Omophorion) embroidered with an icon (14th century, Mistra).]] The epigonation (Greek: , literally meaning "over the knee"), or pálitsa (Russian: , "club"), is a vestment used in some Eastern Christian churches.

thumb|200px|Greek Orthodox deacon wearing a red sticharion and [[Orarion.]]

thumb|Greek Orthodox [[deacon in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, wearing the double orarion over his sticharion. On his head he wears the clerical kamilavka.]]

ecclesiastical overgarment

thumb|17th-century sakkos. It has 16 buttons on each side, plus 1 at the collar to make a total of 33: the traditional number of years in the earthly life of Jesus (Benaki Museum, [[Athens, Greece).]] thumb|Priest in phelonion (left) and archbishop of Prague Joachim in sakkos thumb|right|Greek Catholic Church|Greek-Catholic [[bishop wearing a sakkos. What appears to be a collar is a separate vestment, called the omophorion (Prešov, Slovakia).]]

clothing of the Byzantine Empire

vestment; form of girdle or belt common in the ancient eastern Mediterranean

silk woven in or distributed via the Byzantine Empire

thumb|alt=refer to caption|A pontifical tunicle. The tunicle is a liturgical vestment associated with Roman Catholicism, Anglo-Catholic, and Lutheranism.

draped outer garment worn by men in Ancient Rome

thumb|right|200px|Alexander the Great in battle. Pteruges of leather or stiffened linen are depicted at the shoulders and hips, emerging from beneath his [[cuirass. Detail of the Alexander Mosaic, a Roman copy of a Hellenistic painting.]]

thumb|right|250px|The megas doux [[Alexios Apokaukos in the garb of his office, including a richly-decorated blue kabbadion]] The kabbadion () was a caftan-like garment of oriental origin which became a standard part of court costume in the last centuries of the Byzantine Empire.

thumb|Emperor Justinian I and his court, showing the golden tablion of the emperor and the purple tablion of the senior courtiers. Mosaic from the [[Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna.]] The '''' () was a rectangular or trapezoidal panel embroidered on the ceremonial mantle (chlamys'') of courtiers during the Byzantine Empire. __NOTOC__ The were chosen to contrast with the mantle colour, and sewn pairwise on the front edges of the mantle. They could be further decorated with embroidered designs or images of the emperor. The emperor's mantle originally (in the 4th century) featured sewn almost at