Rebato: brass underwire in ruff of Spanish clothing.
Redingote: waisted coat with large collar and revers, single or double breasted with cut-away tails.
Reefer: thigh-length coat, popular with seamen.
Reticule: woman's hand-bag.
Revers: the turned back edge of a coat or waist-coat, also known as facings.
Rhinegrave: upper stocks with loose, flowing legs. Often richly decorated, especially with ribbon bows.
Ricinium: square veil worn by Roman women on their heads.
Robe Anglaise: child's dress of the late nineteenth century.
Robings: flat trimmings which decorated around the collar and the bodice.
Rochet: small collarless coat, with sleeves that reached no further that the elbows.
Rond: sausage-shaped pad over which women built their hair.
Ropa: woman's outergarment which is open all the way down the front, with a straight collar (sixteenth and early seventeenth century).
Rotonne: the lower collar of a man's coat specifically the Redingote.
Ruff: starched collar of lawn or cambric which completely encircled the neck. Popular in the late sixteenth century.
Ruffle: a strip of fabric pleated to a straight edge as a frill.
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