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Tue 14 Oct, 2014 8:45 am
You may be in luck. A new book on just that subject called
Doublets of Defense will be coming out in the not-too-distant future from the Tudor Tailor
http://www.tudortailor.com/.
The first image you posted is of a jack of plate, armor on its own, and would not work beneath other armor, having multiple layers of canvas, padding, and at least 1000 steel plates sewn into it. There is an extant doublet ca. 1560 believed to have been intended for wearing under armor as it has both padding and eyelets to accept points (laces) at the shoulder seam which is a very common feature for both 15th and 16th century arming doublets. The problem being that there became a fashion to give a military slant to your civilian dress and adapt details which were lifted from military garments amongst upper crust men and that the extant one doesn't show any sign of wear. That said, we have many, many, many images of arming garments from the period. I have some here on my olllllllllllllld and desperately-in-need-of-updates website including the extant one [url]http://strangeandfarre.weebly.com/arming-garments.html [/url] Towards the end of the century, you also start to see leather jerkins coming into more significant use for padding under armor as well to a large degree mirroring civilian fashion. There will be many more images beyond these in
Doublets of Defense.
If it helps, I recently made a hypothetical arming doublet based on the extant one and several images and it worked very well. More info and pictures here... [url]
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.890957567597342.1073741836.697208360305598&type=3 [/url]
Hope this helps!