Concerning Doublets

[M. A. C. Newsome]

Your comment about the similarity to a shell jacket is astute. When I first got my Sheriffmuir doublet, a lady who makes reproduction Civil War clothing for local reenactment groups (and whose husband has recently gotten into kilt wearing), commented that it was simply "a shell jacket" with x, y and z modifications. Her assesment: "I can make one of those and I don't even need a new pattern!"

End result -- she has a very happy husband, who should soon have a very nice new doublet. :-)

[OC Richard]

So...

anybody have a good Civil War jacket maker they could recommend, who could do one in plain black?

Luckily the three-pointed "slash" cuffs (as seen on several styles of Scottish jackets) were very common during the Civil War and anybody used to making Civil War jackets could easily make up a shell jacket with them. (New York Militia jackets usually had those, but many Confederate jackets did too.)