Our spring comes earlier than some, and by evening yesterday the temperature was perfect for a topcoat. As you know, topcoats are not as warm as overcoats. They are made from lighter cloth than their winter counter-parts, and are typically shorter which incidently lets them better accommodate autombile travel (and why has no-one built coat storage into autombiles, I ask - but that is for another time). And they are ideally tweed. The topcoats that is, not the automobiles.
What tweed provides us besides water shedding properties and warmth is a wide variety of patterns, and the illustration shows a couple of nicely bold choices. I believe that at least one coat in every man's wardrobe should be something other than a solid. Keep your solid colored cashmeres and vicunas (well, perhaps you could send me the vicunas). Wear a patterned coat in Spring.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Patterns of Spring
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Not only are these nice looking coats which add some excitement to a new season but I like the trouser length on both of the models here. There is nothing more unsightly (to me) than a big bunch piled on top of a shoe.
Thanks for the post, Will. Very informative.
You've touched a nerve with me. I love my full-length camelhair polo coat, but it's getting in my way when leaping in a out of the bucket seats in the car (to say nothing of when I'm working the clutch.) I'd love to see coat storage in a car... or a nice herringbone tweed seat ... but what I need is a good-looking car coat. Do they exist?
Where would you recommend looking for both a high quality overcoat and a high quality topcoat? I am excited about the possibilities of a dashing tweed topcoat. As always, thanks a bunch for your postings.
Kenneth, start with Magee in Dublin, Ireland.
I'm moving to a small town just outside of the city. I love the bell tower. I love the food. I love the atmosphere. The best part? A veritable sartorial school... Older gents and their wonderful topcoats in herringbone tweed, classic plaids and other fantasy patterns that only refined country townfolk can pull off with such style.
Will, you touched a nerve...top coats for spring deserve a place in our wardrobe... Now, I am thinking of a cashmere blend light grey bold herringbone as a starter. Can anyone suggest other possibilities?
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