Question on a Jacket

**Profane James** · 12th November 15, 08:02 AM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

Highland Dress today: a sea of Coatees, but Gordon Walker is wearing a Doublet

Off topic - Gordon Walker is prob my fav piper to date...oh, and red laces!

**OC Richard** · 13th November 15, 06:28 AM

Originally Posted by Profane James

Gordon Walker is prob my fav piper to date...oh, and red laces!

And shoe buckles! And a pocket watch chain! That sporran didn't come off the peg, I don't think. He's stylish for sure. A fine bird deserves fine feathers!

BTW in The Highlanders Of Scotland (1860s) 24 of the 56 kilted men are wearing the ordinary civilian doublet of the period. Most are plain black. A couple have lace (braid) trim. Three are dark blue, one is tartan, one is tan.

25 men are wearing jackets with rounded cutaway bottoms, 21 are grey or brown Day tweed, four are blue, black, or tartan.

The remainder of the jackets are military doublets (3) shell jackets (2) and the unique buttonless jackets of the "Harris men" (2).

**Cygnus** · 15th November 15, 10:48 PM

I've posted this photo here before, but it further illustrates the look of the modern regulation doublet:

I'm not as stylish as Gordon Walker, but you can see the silk facings, longer lapels/opening, and low-cut waistcoat pretty well. The one difference in mine that harkens back more to the older style is that the buttons are "to close", or along the open edge of one side only and opposed by (false) button holes on the other. This is different from the current practice in most regulation doublets of mimicking the formal tailcoat and putting decorative buttons down both sides of the front, likely to appear as though the jacket is double-breasted.

The doublets in the image in the OP's link look more like a hybrid between this and the modern Sheriffmuir Doublet, so if you like the tashes (or Inverness flaps) and lapels, the regulation doublet is for you, but if the thing that draws you to the doublets in the picture is the high-buttoned front exposing a higher-fastening waistcoat, you may find a Sheriffmuir is more to your taste. That, or you could take out a second mortgage and have a professional tailor make one just like in the pictures!