Doublet Shirt

[Pipersson]

Hi guys,

though I don't know any occasion to wear one yet I am thinking of having some kind of doublet with jabot.
Does anybody know where to get a special shirt to wear with it?
As I understand it has to have no collar...
Any ideas?

Tom

[M. A. C. Newsome]

I have a couple of collarless dress shirts from here:
http://www.gentlemansemporium.com/store/shirts.php

[Pipersson]

Hey Matt, thanks. Good tip. I found some at Kiltmakers.com but only in cotton/poly mix.

(Got your mail, thanks. Hope the hose will arrive till thursday. Would like to wear them at a concert with scottish music in Luxembourg on friday..)

Tom

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Most people who wear a jabot wear it over a standing collar (think wing collar) or with fold over collar as it makes for a neater appearance.

[Phil]

Any outfitters to the legal profession will stock them. Stewart Christie ( http://www.stewart-christie.com/) here in Edinburgh stock them if you can't get one anywhere else. I don't know about a modern jabot but mine fasten with old-fashioned studs to a collar-less shirt in the same way as a detachable collar used to. You can't really wear a collar with a Montrose doublet which is closed at the neck but you could with a Regulation or Kenmore type of doublet which are more open at the neck.

[LitTrog]

Go here:

(Edit by Steve Ashton
The embedded link in this post has been removed due to a complaint from the copyright holder.)

Take a look at collar style #10 and build the rest of your shirt the way you'd like it. Where I went for my doublet shirt.

[piperdbh]

I took an off-the-rack, department store white shirt and removed the collar. I knitted lace for the jabot and sewed it to a strip of white fabric, which I loosely tie around my neck. It hides the collar band on the shirt, and no one will ever know the difference, unless they look really closely.

[BCAC]

I took an off-the-rack, department store white shirt and removed the collar. I knitted lace for the jabot and sewed it to a strip of white fabric, which I loosely tie around my neck. It hides the collar band on the shirt, and no one will ever know the difference, unless they look really closely.

Doesn't the jabot move about like that? I've tried my jabot with and without a shirt collar and it moves around a bit if it's not attached to something or under a collar. It depends a lot on the doublet your wearing if you can wear a collared shirt or not.

[piperdbh]

A little bit, but it's not unbearable.