a short, padded and quilted jacket-like cotton or wool armor (sleeveless and sometimes had ties in front); or, a closed, pull-on, either an undecorated garment reaching to the top of the thigh, or a decorated one reaching to the mid-thigh; wooly huipiles
Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005),103.