page_title: Tippet
section_title: British military nurses
hierarchical_section_title: Tippet / British military nurses
caption_attribution_description: English: Nurse Ella McLean. Nurse McLean wearing a nurse's veil and cape over her uniform.
context_page_description: A tippet is a scarf-like narrow piece of clothing, worn over the shoulders. It may also be likened to a stole in the secular rather than ecclesiastic sense of this word. Tippets evolved in the fourteenth century from long sleeves and typically had one end hanging down to the knees. In later fashion, a tippet is often any scarf-like wrap, usually made of fur, such as the sixteenth-century zibellino or the fur-lined capelets worn in the mid-18th century.
context_section_description: A different and non-religious sort of tippet, a shoulder-length cape, has been part of the uniform of British military nurses or of nursing uniforms in Commonwealth countries.  These are often decorated with piping and may have badges or insignia indicating the wearer's rank.
caption: WWI Australian Nurse Ella McLean, shown wearing tippet
exif: {}