Vestitor

The vestitor, Hellenized as el () was a lowly Byzantine palace position and rank.

As their name suggests, the vestitores were originally officials of the imperial wardrobe (, adopted into Greek as el), and are first attested as such in the 6th century. By the 9th century, the title had also become an honorary dignity (δια βραβείου άξια, el) intended for "bearded men" (i.e. non-eunuchs), marked in the Klētorologion of 899 as the third-lowest of the imperial hierarchy, coming between the el and the el (both also classes of palace officials). Its distinctive insignia was a fiblatorium, a cloak fastened by a fibula brooch.

According to the Klētorologion, together with the el, the el were under the command of the court official known as the el. The later De Ceremoniis of Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos () indicates that they assisted the el in dressing the emperor, while the chronicler Theophanes the Confessor calls them wardens of the imperial crown. From sigillographic evidence, in the 9th century the rank was held by senior provincial officials, i.e. el (heads of the civil administration) and el (customs officials) of the themes. The term last occurs in the 10th century.