It's TWEED Season!

[Oldsarge]

I'm not sure this is tweed. It might be heavy flannel.

 

[Peak and Pine]

^

Or camels' hair. Top notch whatever which way. Look at that shoulder. And elephant lapels. Light buttons give a suit coat, if that's what this is, versatility, helping it when it goes off on its own.

 

[ran23]

I grew out of my suit trousers, but the charcoal glen plaid jacket still fits. What to wear with it?

 

[Oldsarge]

Either the darkest or the lightest color in the check?

 

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Edit add: meant to post the below as a "Sunday Bonus" along with this guy ⇧, but left it out, so here it is. There's just a lot of Tweed in those old Basil Rathbone "Sherlock Holmes" movies. Heck, even Holmes' hat looks like it might be Tweed.

 

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[Peak and Pine]

Gilet (zh'lay)...

 

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[Oldsarge]

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Fall is coming.

 

[Oldsarge]

 

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Continuing with our periodic look at Tweed in the comic strips of the '30s and '40s, here's one from "Sparky Watts." Looks to me like a rough hewn Tweed half-belted back sport coat.

I couldn't find a close match, but this has an echo of Sparky's sport coat:

 

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[Oldsarge]

^^ That's not just a greatcoat, it's a great coat!

 

[Troones]

Continuing with our periodic look at Tweed in the comic strips of the '30s and '40s, here's one from "Sparky Watts." Looks to me like a rough hewn Tweed half-belted back sport coat.
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I couldn't find a close match, but this has an echo of Sparky's sport coat: View attachment 48941

I love love love this one. Is that a herringbone? I tried zooming in but can't quite make it out. An awesome jacket in any event. I have a grey/taupe herringbone with center vent that comes off as this shade. I wish it had an action back like this. I even like the elbow patches. I think they add a lot of character to tweed.

 

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I love love love this one. Is that a herringbone? I tried zooming in but can't quite make it out. An awesome jacket in any event. I have a grey/taupe herringbone with center vent that comes off as this shade. I wish it had an action back like this. I even like the elbow patches. I think they add a lot of character to tweed.

I think it's just a twill pattern, but let's use the AAAC @Matt S Bat Signal to get the definitive answer:

Oh, I and I think the patches work really well on it too.

 

[Matt S]

I think it's just a twill pattern, but let's use the AAAC @Matt S Bat Signal to get the definitive answer:
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Oh, I and I think the patches work really well on it too.

With such low resolution I can't tell for sure what it is, but it does look like some sort of mottled twill. It's not herringbone.

 

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Cross post from the Ralph thread:

And in comic strip land, our man Sparky Watts seems to have switched out his rough-hewn and flecked Tweed sport coat for a solid sport coat and some Donegal trousers (maybe).