GORGEOUS Classic 3/2 sack Tweed Suit from The English Shop of Princeton! BEAUTIFUL CONDITION!

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TWEED SUIT from THE ENGLISH SHOP OF PRINCETON





A classic 3/2 sack suit in beautiful condition!
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This is absolutely wonderful! Tweed suits--proper tweed suits--are becoming increasingly rare, and while Press, Brooks, and O'Connell's stock them they're fiendishly expensive..... Unless you're lucky enough to find one like this!

Cut from a classic light brown herringbone tweed in fairly heavy mid-weight cloth (i.e., this is the sort of cloth you'd expect a reasonably heavy tweed jacket to be cut from; this is no lightweight "suiting tweed!) this is a seriously beautiful and utterly proper tweed suit.

Freedberg of Boston was founded in 1934, and finally closed its doors in 2002, the victim of rising production costs and a more casual workplace. Voted the "Best of Boston" several times in the 1980s and 1990s, they specialized in classic menswear, dressing generations of Harvard undergraduates and professors, as well as outfitting the ushers at Fenway Park and making some seriously loud tweed jackets for Red Auerbach, the coach of the Boston Celtics, who used the plaids and patterns of his Freedberg tweeds to set a distinctive personal style.

This suit was made for The English Shop of Princeton, of the Big Four Ivy Clothiers of Princeton, that together established and promoted the classic "Ivy Style" in the Golden Age and beyond.

This suit is precisely what you'd expect for a suit of its pedigree! Perfectly cut from classic herringbone tweed, this is fully canvassed and half-lined. It is cut as a traditional 3/2 sack, and has a beautifully fluid lapel roll. It has a single centre vent, and classic two button cuffs. The trousers are flat front, feature an on-seam ticket pocket, and are uncuffed; they have a generous allowance of extra material at both the waist and the cuff in case you need to make alterations. This suit was, of course, Made in the USA--indeed, in Boston, in the last remaining suit factory there! The lining has no staining apart from age fading. This suit is in absolutely *excellent* condition, and is an absolute bargain at just $125, or offer, boxed, shipped, and insured in the USA. International inquiries are welcome, with tracked Priority shipping at cost.

Please PM with interest and offers!

Measurements:

Chest: 21 1/2
Sleeve: 26 (+1 1/2)
Shoulder: 17 7/8
Length: 31 1/4

Waist: 17 1/4 (+2 1/2)
Inseam: 32 (+3)