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A doublet (/ ˈ d ʌ b l ɪ t /; [1] derived from the Ital. giubbetta [2]) is a man's snug-fitting jacket that is shaped and fitted to a man's body. The garment was worn in Spain , and spread to the rest of Western Europe , from the late Middle Ages up to the 17th century.
A gambeson (similar to the aketon, padded jack, pourpoint, or arming doublet) is a padded defensive jacket, worn as armour separately, or combined with mail or plate armour. Gambesons were produced with a sewing technique called quilting that produced a padded cloth.
Pourpoint is a loan from the French "pourpoint" which came from the Middle French noun "Pourpoint" [3] (meaning doublet, jack and paltock) from the Middle French "pourpoindre" (meaning to quilt or to embroider) [4] which came from the Latin "perpunctus". [5] In the medieval period, the word pourpoint wasn't used in English.
Hose were generally tied to the breech belt, or to the breeches themselves, or to a doublet. [15] A doublet was a buttoned jacket that was generally of hip length. Similar garments were called cotehardie, pourpoint, jaqueta or jubón. [16] These garments were worn over the shirt and the hose.
15th century costume - the Houppelande. A houppelande or houpelande is an outer garment, with a long, full body and flaring sleeves, that was worn by both men and women in Europe in the late Middle Ages.
Arming points are reinforced sections of a gambeson or arming doublet where pieces of body armor were laced on. [1] Illustration of arming points and tresses on a doublet. During the Medieval and Renaissance periods of European history, arming points allowed heavy armor to be fastened securely to a cloth undergarment via cloth or leather laces. [2]
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A jerkin is a man's short close-fitting jacket, made usually of light-coloured leather, and often without sleeves, worn over the doublet in the 16th and 17th centuries. The term is also applied to a similar sleeveless garment worn by the British Army in the 20th century.