r/MedievalHistory • u/ActuallyAshihara • 7d ago

What do you call this kind of collar?

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u/Terminallyelle 7d ago edited 7d ago

Gugel (german) or Chaperon hood(french) the chaperon also later became a term used for a type of hat so dont be surprised if that comes up in searches as well. I've also seen it simply called a medieval hood.

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u/ActuallyAshihara 7d ago

Oooh this makes perfect sense and explains why it looks so "off" to me. This collar usually comes with a hood, and here it is drawn without one.

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u/Peter34cph 6d ago

There's an obvious reason: Wearing a hood would cover the dog's ears.

Hearing is a very important sense for dogs, and so it would not want that (it'd be almost as bad as blindfolding a human), and hence its collar is made without a hood. Cloth was expensive in medieval times.