Double Breasted Jacket

[Glen]

Listed on ebay as:

BOTTLE GREEN PRINCE CHARLIE KILT JACKET

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BOTTLE-GRE...item3f1eb9654a

[The Wizard of BC]

That is much more akin to an Eton style than to a Prince Charlie style.

Nice price though.

[Tam Piperson]

Have you seen the lot of 1904 vintage Highland attire that included an odd double-breasted(?) Argyll jacket, silver-mounted sporran with MacArthur heraldic crest, two kilts, kilt-shorts, hose, clan badges and other accessories listed at: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...E:B:SS:US:1123 Incredible find still in its original period trunk, but a whopping price!

[OC Richard]

Nice jacket!

Here is Pipe Major Evan MacRae c1980 wearing a not dissimilar jacket




and The Alexander Brothers



and one which came up on Ebay some time ago, but I saved a picture

[sydnie7]

Have you seen the lot of 1904 vintage Highland attire that included an odd double-breasted(?) Argyll jacket, silver-mounted sporran with MacArthur heraldic crest, two kilts, kilt-shorts, hose, clan badges and other accessories listed at: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...E:B:SS:US:1123 Incredible find still in its original period trunk, but a whopping price!

What an interesting listing, thanks for posting the link! I especially like the 3-dimensional design of the belt on badges.

As an aside, I also got a good chuckle out of the eBay bottom banner "People who bought this item also bought. . . " LOL at some of their product associations!

[Tam Piperson]

Yes, all of the silver items appear to have been made to the highest level of quality and craftsmanship, which is almost unknown these days:



Even the silver Highland buttons appear to bear the matching MacAlpine crest and motto:



The double-breasted Argyll jacket is a look I'm not all that familiar with and looks a bit odd to me:



I really wish kilt makers still supplied these as necessaries today:



Really quite a time capsule from a more elegant era:



A good reminder of how the quality of craftsmanship (which was once commonplace) has, along with our standard of living, sadly fallen short of what it once was in an earlier era before our society began to decline.

[plaid preacher]

Okay Rabble help me out. I'm looking at this jacket and am really interested. It will be my first kilt jacket. MY question is about the length... how long should a 40 reg jacket be ... I am about 5'10". Will a 19 in jacket in this style be long enough?

[Tam Piperson]

Good question. If you are talking about the short style of double-breasted jacket, the bottom of the jacket should come down over the top of your kilt about 3 or 4 inches.

[BCAC]

If you're interested in buying the ebay one quoted on this thread it is longer than that:-

The tunic is 25 inches (63.5cm) long (from collar to the bottom edge) by 17.5 inches (44.5cm) wide (from armpit to armpit) and the length of the sleeve is 22.5 inches (57cm).


I would think 19 inches to be too short as a jacket like this does not stop at the waist.

[plaid preacher]

BCAC - thanks, but I was speaking of the green jacket in the original thread, not the one about the other whole rig that is mentioned.

Anyone know how the original thread re: the green double breasted jacket would fit? Thanks.