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: a pleated frill of cloth or lace attached down the center front of a woman's blouse or dress
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: a fall of lace or cloth attached to the front of a neckband and worn especially by men in the 18th century
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While she has been photographed on the bench in a variety of statement-making jabots, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s collar for President Trump’s swearing-in ceremony sent a particularly powerful message.
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Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 20 Jan. 2025
The rest of the items Mr. Washington wore that day — breeches, a waistcoat, a linen shirt, a type of decorative neckwear known as a jabot — are missing.
—Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
For the next couple of centuries, the space around men’s throats was host to a bewildering array of cravats, stocks, scarves, kerchiefs, solitaires, jabots, and the style that eventually came to be called the ascot.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 July 2024
The museum also owns one of O’Connor’s jabots, decorative, scarf-like garments that hang from the base of the neck.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
The late 1960s got a facelift on Saturday in a collection that featured babydoll dresses, miniskirts, psychedelia, crop-tops and jabot collars -- but never lost that floaty, contemporary Saab touch.
—Thomas Adamson, ajc, 1 Oct. 2022
In a 2009 interview with the Washington Post, RBG uncovered the origin story of the jabot.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2020
Worn with silk jabot blouses over latex leggings and rendered in Prince of Wales check, houndstooth, gabardine and wool tweeds, the palette ranges from pale rose and powder blue to crimson and electric violet.
—Lindsay Talbot, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2020
Of course, my jabot went back in the cedar chest afterward.
—Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 14 Mar. 2020
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Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 20 Jan. 2025
The rest of the items Mr. Washington wore that day — breeches, a waistcoat, a linen shirt, a type of decorative neckwear known as a jabot — are missing.
—Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
For the next couple of centuries, the space around men’s throats was host to a bewildering array of cravats, stocks, scarves, kerchiefs, solitaires, jabots, and the style that eventually came to be called the ascot.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 July 2024
The museum also owns one of O’Connor’s jabots, decorative, scarf-like garments that hang from the base of the neck.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
The late 1960s got a facelift on Saturday in a collection that featured babydoll dresses, miniskirts, psychedelia, crop-tops and jabot collars -- but never lost that floaty, contemporary Saab touch.
—Thomas Adamson, ajc, 1 Oct. 2022
In a 2009 interview with the Washington Post, RBG uncovered the origin story of the jabot.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2020
Worn with silk jabot blouses over latex leggings and rendered in Prince of Wales check, houndstooth, gabardine and wool tweeds, the palette ranges from pale rose and powder blue to crimson and electric violet.
—Lindsay Talbot, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2020
Of course, my jabot went back in the cedar chest afterward.
—Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 14 Mar. 2020
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“Jabot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jabot. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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