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 by function]
7. protective wear
8. armor
9. [armor by form]
10. body armor
11. [body armor for torso]

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment
4. Costume
5. costume
6. clothing
7. main garments
8. main garments for the upper body
9. jackets

Anotations

Scope note:

Protective garments consisting of overlapping plates of steel, aluminum, or bonded fiberglass attached within a nylon jacket. They were developed during the Second World War to protect aircraft crews against fragments from antiaircraft shells, and are now also widely used by ground combat personnel.