Guimp

Discalced Carmelites . In this order the breast cloth is worn under the scapular .

The guimpe ( French [ˈgɛ̃p] ), (also: pennant , envelope or in another spelling gimp ) describes the round or square-cut breast cloth in the habit of nuns and nuns . The guimp, for example, can consist of a linen turn-down collar over or under the tunic of the habit. In some French habits, the breast cloth is cut similar to the abbe 's cup .

Different forms of guimp

Infanta Clara Isabella Eugenia in the habit of the Poor Clares with breast cloth, veil , scapular and cingulum
St. Bernadette Soubirous on her deathbed, dressed in the habit and breast cloth of the Sisters of Mercy of Nevers
Vincentians , Henriette Browne (1859)
Sisters of the Order 1957
Benedictine Sisters in Seville

Individual evidence

^ Rule and constitution of the Discalced Nuns of the Order of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel , No. 72. For the monasteries of Discalced Carmelites (according to Canon 615) accommodated to Vatican Council II and to the current canonical laws according to the norms given by His Holiness John Paul II on the 15th of October 1984. Promulgated by the same Supreme Pontiff on the 8th, December 1990, Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, 1990.

[1] Rule and constitution of the Discalced Nuns of the Order of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel , No. 72. For the monasteries of Discalced Carmelites (according to Canon 615) accommodated to Vatican Council II and to the current canonical laws according to the norms given by His Holiness John Paul II on the 15th of October 1984. Promulgated by the same Supreme Pontiff on the 8th, December 1990, Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, 1990.