Doublet (Highland dress)

Commonly they are short cut with four Inverness flaps skirt and buttoned gauntlet cuffs.

This garment is similar to a mess jacket, with buttoned gauntlet cuffs, short or no skirts, and with or without lapels.

The Regulation doublet is typically black barathea or coloured velvet with silk-faced peaked lapels, buttoned gauntlet cuffs, and epaulettes, similar to the Prince Charlie coatee, which it pre-dates.

Unlike the coatee, which is cut like a mess jacket, the doublet has braided "tashes" (otherwise known as Inverness skirts/flaps) at the front and back.

The Montrose doublet (as defined by Kinloch Anderson) is "a double breasted short cut evening jacket with high collar.

In 1715 a battle was fought here between the Jacobites under the Earl of Mar and the Government forces under the Duke of Argyll.