Arming doublet
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An Arming doublet (also called aketon) is a special padded jacket worn under armor, particularly plate armor of fifteenth and sixteenth century Europe. An arming doublet contains arming points for attaching plates and fifteenth century examples may include goussets sewn into the elbows and armpits to protect the wearer in locations not covered by plate. German gothic armor arming doublets were generally shorter than Italian white armor doublets, which could extend to the upper thigh.
In late fifteenth century Italy this also became a civilian fashion. Men who were not knights wore arming doublets, probably because the garment suggested status and chivalry.[1]
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- How a man shall be armed for his ease when he shall fight on foot a mid-fifteenth century treatise on armor translated into modern English
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City "The Function of Armor in Medieval and Renaissance Europe."
- How a Man Shal Be Armyd modern reproduction of an arming doublet with diagrams and photographs
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