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About tweed suits...
No it isn't. There's a difference between simply any twill woven cloth and tweed. The name Tweed may have started life as a misreading of the word 'twill' or 'tweel' in Scotland (whatever the etymology), but it is always a wool cloth, woven as a 'woollen'. There are worsted cloths that are...- Dirk Wainscotting
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- Forum: Suits
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About tweed suits...
Do you mean of tweed cloth or clothes made from it? There are loads of companies that sell 'tweed' jackets of varying quality. Cordings, for example, right down to H&M and even Primark! I looked at Austin Reed's website and I think they have a smaller range of cloths than Cad & Dandy, though the...- Dirk Wainscotting
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Linen Suit - where to find a good one...
Oh I see. I thought they were just a clothier. I stand corrected!- Dirk Wainscotting
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About tweed suits...
RTW = ready to wear (or 'ready made' as it used to be called). I suggested Cad & Dandy because they are one of the non SR tailors who might be able to knock out a coat about the same price as you find in the dearer RTW brands or some independent clothiers. Of course there's no law that says...- Dirk Wainscotting
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About tweed suits...
Crombie no longer produces cloth (for sale at least) and I don't think they ever produced tweed. The cloth they produced for their well-known coats was a thick melton. Dugdale sells to the trade. Are you considering buying a top-quality tweed in RTW? They always turn out to be expensive and for...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #39
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How you ever worn certain clothes to give others "the finger?"
I was glad to see the back of McCririck, his media persona took a nasty turn when people started soliciting his opinions about life outside racing.- Dirk Wainscotting
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How you ever worn certain clothes to give others "the finger?"
Tricorns? I don't know about that.. I wouldn't want to look like a town crier. I don't consider any people my 'superiors'. Everyone I work with is a colleague of one type or another. I'm sure there are people who think they are my superior, but it has no real effect upon me.- Dirk Wainscotting
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Suits - Pre 1920
Somebody looks like he's been shoplifting!- Dirk Wainscotting
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Where does the "ill-fitting ball cap with a suit" look originate from?
The thing is, the well-known 'yoof' retailers sell shed-loads of suits to young people; though it matters what your definition of 'suit' is. Trousers rolled up and worn with tennis shoes; braces attached, yet hanging down at the back so, perversely, the trousers end up supporting the braces...- Dirk Wainscotting
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About tweed suits...
I only have two actual Harris Tweed coats. One brown herringbone, one greenish/brown. Another is a sort of moss green Donegal tweed with coloured flecks which you can only see close up. All these are quite solid 14-16 oz cloth. The other "tweed" coats are of varying weights, but lighter in...- Dirk Wainscotting
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About tweed suits...
In light showers a tweed jacket without a coat can manage admirably for short exposures. In drizzle I'd wear a mac or take an umbrella. In full-on rain, well only a fool walks around in that without a coat or brolly.- Dirk Wainscotting
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Where does the "ill-fitting ball cap with a suit" look originate from?
I wear a flat cap every day when cycling to and from work; except summer when I use a straw hat.- Dirk Wainscotting
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About tweed suits...
Not sure why, but the images you've posted in several posts are all broken links for me. I'm starting to think you might have a hypersensitive nose because none of my tweed coats smell offensive when wet. If you don't like the smell of damp wool here may be a problem. It rains a lot here in...- Dirk Wainscotting
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Where does the "ill-fitting ball cap with a suit" look originate from?
I know this thread relates to the U.S. but here in Europe you see quite a lot of real hats and they've increased in number over the last decade. Aside from the hat aficionados there are a lot of men wearing hats during winter. Most of these men are over thirty and the hats tend to look more like...- Dirk Wainscotting
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About tweed suits...
You're right. Isn't that what I already wrote? Tweed is a cloth woven particularly in Scotland, Ireland and the West of England, with the Scottish tweeds (The Harris and Lewis) being the most associated with the name.- Dirk Wainscotting
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About tweed suits...
Maybe your colleagues have dumped it in the wardrobe still wet one too many times? Wool does have a particular smell when wet, but it's worse if the cloth is particularly grubby. My raincoat breathes and it has grommets under the arms. It's still possible to wear a raincoat and look...- Dirk Wainscotting
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About tweed suits...
It won't smell either musty or mouldy if it is allowed to dry off in a ventilated place, and brushed off, before being put back in the wardrobe. Tweed can take showers easily. Many a time I've cycled home in the rain in a tweed coat with no ill-effects. In any case, if it's raining and a man is...- Dirk Wainscotting
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Sport coat and jeans??
That could be severely misinterpreted.:eek:- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #189
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Grey flannel or twill trousers with morning dress?
I'll be honest, I think the presence of a sole morning coat will be pretty obtrusive in itself. I don't know how fitting morning dress is for a church anyway outside of a wedding. I love morning coats (I have four of them), but the realistic opportunities to wear them are dwindling, unless the...- Dirk Wainscotting
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Sport coat and jeans??
Perhaps if we kick away some of the middle supports it might collapse... Seriously though, 'hipster' no longer seems to have any solid meaning. Even I have been called a hipster! At a garden party last summer I was told some people referred to me as "that hipster with the hat on". What does it...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #187
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