Boys and girls wear a long white tunic with a coloured mozzetta on top to distinguish the various groups. |
The mozzetta is the same color as the cassock, and is usually worn only by cardinals and bishops. |
In Rome the cardinals wear the mozzetta over the mantelletta, except in their titular churches, when it is worn immediately over the rochet. |
The mozzetta of the canons of Klosterneuburg is usually decorated at the neck with violet tassels and cords. |
Lastly, from the cappa is probably derived the mozzetta, a short cape with a miniature hood, fastened down the front with buttons. |
They have a special cape called a mozzetta which is trimmed with ermine. |