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title: "Doublet"
description: "A doublet is a close-fitting padded jacket worn by men from the fifteenth to the mid-seventeenth century."
type: Glossary
url: https://teazle.art/glossary/doublet
published: 2026-10-14
updated: 2026-10-14
author: "The Teazle editors"
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# Doublet

*A doublet is a close-fitting padded jacket worn by men from the fifteenth to the mid-seventeenth century.*

The doublet was the main upper garment of fashionable European men, worn over the shirt and tied or laced to the [hose](https://teazle.art/glossary/hose.md). It could be padded, slashed to show linings, and fitted with a stiffened front.


## Sources

1. [Doublet (AAT 300209829)](http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300209829). Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus
2. [Doublet (Q445972)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q445972). Wikidata

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