Renaissance Doublet Multi-sized Pattern for Regular and Slim 18" Boy Dolls

The doublet was worn in Europe between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries and it changed from being an undergarment to outer garment and from specialized military dress to fashionable civilian dress. The doublet's function as standard everyday attire was primarily to support men's hose, while providing warmth and shaping a man's upper torso. It was used to display appropriate decorative and stylistic features through each period, such as padding, paning (panes or narrow strips of fabric sewn over a contrasting lining), and slashing.Doublets became increasingly shorter through the second half of the fourteenth century, barely covering the hips, and many had full-length sleeves, ending below the wrist and tightly fitted with a row of buttons from elbow to wrist.The narrow, two-part sleeves were seamed at the elbow and set into wide, round-shaped armholes for full arm movement. Low, rounded necklines had short standing collars.In the sixteenth century, the doublet was a major men's