well not quite >grin< but i have learned a few things about sideless surcoats.

The sideless surcoat apears to have evolved from earlier sleeveless over tunics and "sur" (on top of or outer) cotes
one of the most well known is the Cyclass, a soldiers or horsemans tunic, but the basic ancestor was a sleeveless, or at most short sleeved, long tunic type ( Read more... )