formal jackets and the cookie cutter aversion

[JSFMACLJR]

Here's the jacket style seen over and over again from the 1860's up through the 1930's. I have literally dozens of old photos of pipers and non-pipers wearing this same style. No one seems to make it any more. An old Highland Dress catalogue mentions a "Celtic Jacket" and I'm wondering if that is what they called this style:

That doublet is pretty much the basic "regulation doublet." Just a few bits added for a piper, and slightly different tailoring and button placement, but nonetheless aregulation doublet.

[HarborSpringsPiper]

That doublet is pretty much the basic "regulation doublet." Just a few bits added for a piper, and slightly different tailoring and button placement, but nonetheless aregulation doublet.

I've seen these jackets in old pictures as well and hadn't realized that it was an older, different style of regulation doublet. It looks like a cross between a Sheriffmuir and what many sites sell now that they call a regulation doublet. The current offering of regulation doublets I see look like a PC with Argyll cuffs and Inverness flaps/taches sewn on to it.

I really like this older style regulation doublet. Without the piping on the edges and shoulder shells it would look outstanding for evening wear today.

[OC Richard]

That doublet is pretty much the basic "regulation doublet." Just a few bits added for a piper, and slightly different tailoring and button placement, but nonetheless aregulation doublet.

I respectfully disagree.

The doublets they make nowadays share the gauntlet/Argyll cuffs and Inverness tashes/flaps but are completely different in the collar treatment, overall shape, and trim style.

These jackets by the way usually don't have the Musician's Shells, but pipers are seen wearing the shells sometimes.

Here's the earliest image I can find of this jacket style, from 1865:



Some more photos showing this style. Note that the jacket is pretty much the same as a "military style" doublet but with an open collar (as opposed to a Prince Charlie jacket with cuffs and flaps stuck on).