Margarete
Margarete asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

In your description of Miles' clothing, you often use the words jacket and tunic, like in A Civil Campaign when he shows Ekaterin the little admiral, His mercenary uniform has a jacket but his Auditor's grey suit has a tunic. You especially refer to Barrayaran uniforms as having tunic tops. I always read tunic and see sleeve-less and long to the mid-thigh, but that can't be right. How do you envision the tunic tops?

Lois McMaster Bujold
I envision them as like military cadet tunics -- jackets with high round collars, variously fastened. One can see the style in a lot of anime boys' high-school uniforms as well. (I was just rewatching xxxHolic -- there's an example.) Also Nehru jackets. In short, I am using the two terms almost interchangeably.

Ta, L.

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