Safeguard (costume)

A safeguard or saveguard was a riding garment or overskirt worn by women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Some safeguards were intended to protect skirts or kirtles worn beneath. Mary Frith, dramatised as the character Moll Cutpurse in The Roaring Girl, wore a black safeguard over breeches. The safeguard, and its French equivalent, the devantiére, can be described as a wrap-around apron, possibly worn over some kind of breeches.

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