The new book, "The Tudor Tailor" has a line drawing of almost exactly what
you want, on page 63. You would just have to make the hanging sleeves.

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Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 9:32 AM
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Subject: [h-cost] 16th century men query



O.K. I give up! I have searched all the usual suspects, Arnold, 
Mikhaila, Waugh, Tudor Images, Costume in the Western World, 
Davenport, Ashelford etc., the costume books edited by James Laver, a 
beautiful Czech book I have and so on. I cannot find an image of a 
gentleman in breeches and skirted doublet for about 1560-80.

It is for my husband to wear to an SCA event we have been invited to 
in the summer. I have all the garb for me for gentry, and my husband 
has a pair of wool breeches and  a pair of slightly non-authentic 
boots that will have to do. However, as he is only going to be 
wearing this doublet once, and i am totally tight for time, I need 
something simple and thought that a plain but rich wool skirted 
doublet would be ideal. He has his own peascod belly so won't need 
padding, but the only images I can find are of upper class servants, 
or peasants, and my husband would not have been a peasant!! 
(Me?  marry a peasant? - bah!)

I may have to go with what I want rather than what is strictly 
authentic, but any advice or images would be most welcome.

Suzi

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://vassun.vassar.edu/~jasaeger/
img/maps/hoefnagel_1024x-2g.jpeg&imgrefurl=http://vassun.vassar.edu/~jasaege
r/img/maps/london-a.html&h=768&w=973&sz=166&tbnid=5x31pXSylFzxVM:&tbnh=116&t
bnw=148&hl=en&start=14&prev=/images%3Fq%3DHoefnagel%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%2
6lr%3D%26sa%3DG

The young man on the left is wearing the kind of doublet I mean. 
(Sorry I don't know how to compress the url.) 
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