Well now, here is a topic I can take great delight in!

Kyle, get a tartan doublet! We've chatted about this some in the past, I know, but feel free to pick my brain.

OK, first off, can Kinloch-Anderson make tartan doublets? I would recommend you check with Stewart Christie, or if you have plenty of cash, go down to London to my tailor Meyer & Mortimer and speak with them. By lots of money I mean at least 3K pounds!

There really are two options: 1. an Argyll-style doublet; 2. a high collored doublet. Both have strengths and weaknesses. I chose the former. I wanted a more "casual" jacket that I could wear in a number of ways: either with a waistcoat and bow tie or jabot, or sans waistcoat with a bow tie for smaller dinners and dances and such. The other style of doublet would be better suited to a jabot--although MacGregor wears either a jabot or a tie with his splendid doublet.

I like tartan doublets on the bias, and did a lot of research and field work to see what's out there. Bias cut might account for 2/3 of the tartan doublets I've seen. I think the sett doesn't have to match perfectly, but it ought to be pretty close IMHO.

Now, I've shown quite a few tartan doublets here before, but I'll do another montage, beginning with mine!