Regulation Doublet on eBay

**MacCathmhaoil** · 4th September 12, 02:31 PM

There is what appears to be a regulation coatee on eBay for sale incorrectly listed as a Prince Charlie. The item number is 180965060580 it is listed as being made by Hector Russell.

Good luck!

**Friday** · 4th September 12, 05:20 PM

Direct Link to coatee.

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 4th September 12, 05:50 PM

Nope, not a regulation doublet. That's a Prince Charlie, as described. Though it is made with gauntlet cuffs instead of the usual braemar cuffs, which may have confused you.

A regulation doublet has tashes on the bottom. Like this image.

**CMcG** · 4th September 12, 06:38 PM

Originally Posted by M. A. C. Newsome

Nope, not a regulation doublet. That's a Prince Charlie, as described. Though it is made with gauntlet cuffs instead of the usual braemar cuffs, which may have confused you.

A regulation doublet has tashes on the bottom.

I see tashes (not PC short tails) on the eBay jacket that Friday linked to...

**freddie** · 4th September 12, 06:41 PM

Deffinately a regulation doublet in my opinion.

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 4th September 12, 07:32 PM

Doh! Looking back at it again, I too see the tashes. Don't know where they were the first time I looked at the pic! You folks are right, that is a regulation doublet.

**madmacs** · 4th September 12, 08:27 PM

Phew! Not my size...

**OC Richard** · 5th September 12, 04:45 AM

Yep that's cool, you don't see those very often.

That style, which we call nowadays the "regulation doublet", was called in the old days simply "the doublet", and was the most common kilt jacket from the mid-19th century well up into the 1930s, when the then-new "coatee" (which we call the "Prince Charlie") started taking over.

The style of lapel changed over the years. Originally the "doublet" had lapels like an ordinary suit coat of the time, usually, but would sometimes be seen with long formal lapels.

After the Prince Charlie came onto the scene, for whatever reason the makers changed the lapels, so that the Prince Charlie and the Doublet had the same style, low lapels usually made of satin. I've never cared for these latter-day Doublets, but prefer the earlier style.