A mandilion or mandelion is a loose men`s hip-length pullover coat or jacket, open down the sides, worn in England in the later sixteenth century. It was fashionable to wear the mandilion colly-westonward or Colley-Weston-ward, that is, rotated 90 degrees so that the front and back were draped over the arms and the sleeves hung down in front and ....
• (n.) See Mandil.
(from the article `dress`) ...in England. For example, men wore breeches full at the waist, a doublet and jerkin, and a hip-length, loose overgarment that had been fashionable ...
Man·dil'ion noun See Mandil . Chapman. 
A mandilion is a hip-length, loose jacket with open side seams often decorated with braid trim.