Quote Originally Posted by JSFMACLJR View Post
When you wrote "It's easy to see how someone not familiar with such things might, by false analogy, think of the cuffs, collar, and tashes all as added bits simply stuck onto the body of the doublet, and all equally subject to being done in contrasting colours", you really show your ignorance. Contrasting colours are as old as the garments themselves.
I would agree. I have seen no less a personage than Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay sporting a dinner jacket/tuxedo with contrasting red lapels - an affectation begun by one of his forebears I believe -