What is the difference between a surplice and a cotta?

Similarly, you may ask, who would normally wear a surplice?

It is usually worn over a cassock and never alone, nor is it ever gathered by a belt or cincture. It may be worn under a stole by deacons and priests for liturgical ceremonies or the celebration of sacraments outside of Mass. On occasion, a cope is worn over the cassock, surplice and stole.

Similarly, what is the difference between a dalmatic and chasuble?

is that chasuble is the outermost liturgical vestment worn by clergy for celebrating eucharist or mass while dalmatic is a long wide-sleeved tunic, which serves as a liturgical vestment in the roman catholic and anglican churches and is worn by a deacon at the eucharist or mass and, although infrequently, by bishops as

Under the chasuble, the priest should wear the following: Alb - white robe. Amice - many contemporary albs (sometimes called cassock-albs) are designed to not need these, in which case, the amice can be omitted. Street clothes or cassock - he's not nekkid under his vestments.