jabot

Against the flat black expanse of the man’s jacket, he unleashed bravura brushwork to depict elaborate gold embroidery trim and buttons, a liquid blue and white sash in watered silk, a frilly sheer jabot falling from the throat and a small, enameled medal emblazoned with the crimson cross of the Order of Santiago.

There have been a lot of rockers and soul singers who have gussied themselves up and used a combination of biker leather and frilly ruffles to highlight roiling machismo, to suggest that their testosterone is cranked up so high that they need a lacy jabot to tone it down to a level that their fans can handle.

Jabot collars mixed with frilled cuffs and giant pleated ruffs that evoked the heyday of the New Romantics.

A historically correct Gaston would have delighted in an opulently embroidered waistcoat and ruffled jabot, rather than a solid colored V-neck whose only adornment was its plunging décolletage.

He was best known for “The Young and the Restless,” which he joined in 1982 as the chairman of Jabot Cosmetics and a single father.