Mandilion
File:Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester from NPG.jpg wearing a mandilion colly-westonward]]
A mandilion or mandelion is a loose men's hip-length pullover coat or jacket, open down the sides, worn in England in late sixteenth century.Ashelford, Jane. The Visual History of Costume: The Sixteenth Century. 1983 edition ({{ISBN|0-89676-076-6}}), 1994 reprint ({{ISBN|0-7134-6828-9}})
It was fashionable to wear the mandilion colly-westonward or Colley-Weston-ward, that is, rotated 90 degrees so that the front and back were draped over the arms and the sleeves hung down in front and behind.
:"...sithence such is our mutability that to-day there is none to the Spanish guise, to-morrow the French toys are most fine and delectable, ere long no such apparel as that which is after the high Almaine fashion, by-and-by the Turkish manner is generally best liked of, otherwise the Morisco gowns, the Barbarian fleeces, the mandilion worn to Colley-Weston ward, and the short French breeches make such a comely vesture that, except it were a dog in a doublet, you shall not see any so disguised as are my countrymen of England." - William Harrison, The Description of Elizabethan England (1577), 'Of Our Apparel and Attire'.
Why the fashion was named after the small village of Collyweston in Northamptonshire remains uncertain.{{cite web |title=Leather Jackets USA |url=https://www.leatherjacketsusa.com |accessdate=15 July 2019}}
Another pronunciation of the fashion is "coley-westwards".{{cn|date=July 2019}}
See Chaperon for a similar development in the medieval hood-turned-hat.
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- [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1577harrison-england.html Modern History Sourcebook: William Harrison (1534-1593): Description Of Elizabethan England, 1577(from Holinshed's Chronicles)]
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