Beautiful Doublet

[OC Richard]

I guess I'll be the dissenting voice here, as I don't care for that doublet.

It's got too many colours going on to suit me.

And it ignores the traditional colouring of doublets: in the 19th century military some doublets have everything all one colour (as in the solid Archer Green pipers' doublets) but if two colours are used the contrasting colour appears on the cuffs and standing collar, never on the tashes/flaps.

And to have parts of the tashes/flaps one colour, other parts another, looks even more odd to me.

It dates back to the history of military jackets, the cuffs being contrasting because they were turned up, revealing the colour of the jacket's lining material. The tashes/flaps were always reckoned as being part of the body of the doublet, and did not evolve as an underneath portion turned over to the outside. History aside, doublet makers have always seemed to respect these conventions so it jumps out when one tailor does not.

This making of various portions of a jacket different colours willy-nilly leads to stuff like this: