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. ceremonial costume
8. liturgical costume
9. vestments (ecclesiastical costume)

Narrower term/s

• epitrachelia
• visitation stoles
• confessional stoles
• deacon's stoles

Anotations

Scope note:

Ecclesiastical vestments worn by bishops and priests consisting of a long narrow strip of silk, linen, or other cloth worn around the neck and falling from the shoulders to the knee or lower. In the Western church, the sides of the stole are crossed over the chest.