FIDM Museum c1900 Highland outfit

[OC Richard]

that definitely is a doublet?

Doublets were the most common jacket worn in Highland Dress in the Victorian period. Next would be the Argyll (with versions for Day and Evening) and simple ordinary sack coats such as would be worn with trousers.

Shell jackets were extremely popular with soldiers but are very rarely seen in civilian Highland Dress.

Here's a great photo showing a Victorian civilian doublet. There was an amazing variety of "cuts" but they shared the "Inverness skirts" or "tashes" that define the Doublet



The Argyll jacket



Ordinary sack coat






(PS McMurdo you might want to resize that photo, it's making my screen all cattywumpus.)