Lapel

 Lapels - flaps on the chest part in Zapashny clothes. A jacket lapels reach the top buttons. There are three types: solid (when the collar and lapel form one unit, the so-called "Apache"); tapered and inclined. In the Russian language the word "lapel" came at the beginning of the XVIII century. Translated from the German word Latz, Latin and Italian laqueus lassio (from whom he took the term) "lapel" means "snare cord loop." Initially, the Russian lapels traditionally called the lapels of his uniform, as well as special pieces of cloth that were part of the military uniforms of some parts. Maintain such lapels to the early XX century in the Guard Lancers.