Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Costume (hierarchy name)
5. costume (mode of fashion)
6. costume accessories
7. worn costume accessories
8. [accessories by location above the waist]
9. neckwear
10. collars (neckwear)
11. ruffs

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to collars and ruffs that were made of Venetian lace or a similar lace; they were an article of fashionable dress in 18th-century Europe and European colonies. They typically include deep, acute-angled points of lacework. The term refers to the appearance of such collars in portraits by the famous painter, Anthony van Dyck (also spelled "van Dyke").