Tails (tashes?) on Argyll jackets??

[McCracken140]

Good morning everyone,
The other day I was browsing some ex-hire kilt jackets and noticed a detail on this Argyll jacket which I had never noticed on any other Argyll before. There are buttons on the rear of the jacket making the vents have the illusion of tails like on a Prince Charlie jacket.
Have you all ever seen this before? Thoughts?

[McMurdo]

In my opinion this is a dogs breakfast. Absolutely appalling.

[jthk]

I agree with McMurdo: not something I'd ever wear myself and I don't particularly like the appearance of the jacket.

[OC Richard]

Wow that makes no sense at all.

Thing is, all the cuffs and tashes and such seen on Highland jackets aren't random design touches that are stuck onto the jackets here and there to make them look fancier.

They have evolved through long processes from functional jacket features. It's why they look "right", why they look like they belong.

Form follows function, as they say. (Sometimes form follows former function...)

It's called the Prince Charlie Coatee (in early catalogues simply "the coatee") because it's based on Napoleonic-era British military coatees, like this:





The coatee's descent from the 18th century "regimentals" is obvious



The Argyll is simply a cutaway version of the 19th century sack coat, and has a separate path of evolution.