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Confidence votes 6.3K. The defining costume color of a Roman Catholic Cardinal is scarlet red. The daily wear of a Cardinal is a cassock, a long button-front robe that is ordinarily black, except in the tropics where it may be white. The Cardinal's cassock is trimmed with red and worn with a broad red sash around the waist.
In the early Church, no distinctive garb seems to have been worn, except of course liturgical vestments, which in some cases were also worn outside the celebration of sacraments. For instance, sometimes bishops and priests wore the chasuble like regular clothing, as did the deacons with the dalmatic.or the regular parish priest, the cassock is totally black. For cardinals, the buttons, trim, and inside hem are scarlet silk; for patriarchs, archbishops, bishops, protonotaries apostolic and prelates of honor, the buttons, trim and inside hem are amaranth red; and for chaplains to the Holy Father, purple.