A cold front blew down from Canada this past weekend and Saturday was the first day I found cool enough to wear tweed around San Francisco. Tweed is a relatively loose weave and the gun club patterned jacket in the photo is only partially lined so it can be worn comfortably up to about 70 F (21 C) even though the cloth weighs 18 ounces.
Gun club tweeds are variations on the Shepherd Check, which in black and white was the original tweed pattern. According to E. P. Harrison's book Scottish Estate Tweeds, the basic gun club design was exported to an American shooting club in the 1870s for their club colors and then re-exported back to Britain.
The jacket is combined with old slip-on Peal shoes from Brooks Brothers, wide wale navy corduroy trousers, an ecru silk shirt, a paisley ascot and a silk pocket square in a second paisley. If I wanted to dress the jacket up a bit I'd substitute flannels for the corduroys and don a necktie.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Tweed Weather
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6 comments:
Interesting pockets on that jacket.
For me, this picture confirms yesterdays post. You look best in cooler colors. You look good today, of course, don't read me wrong. But the warmer coolers wash you out a little. Blues, grays, cool pastels. These are what I find most flattering on you. Cooler is striking on you, warmer is, well, nice.
Wonderful look, Will. Superb pattern on the tweed jacket. I would not have automatically chosen navy cord trousers for this outfit, but you pull it off. As Mark says (above), you look good in darker colours (as do I, I think, as we share similar colouring). Are those Peal BB kiltie loafers?
The shoes are kilties Laguna.
The check in the jacket is midnight blue and dark green, so the navy cords were literally the first thing I tried.
Will,
Is there some particular reason why you don't publish your complete postings in the RSS feed for your blog? Would you consider changing this so that the RSS feed has the complete posting?
Samir, if I put the full content in the feed the advertisers that pay for the site would lose the eyeballs. Even if I put the ads in the feed, I'd lose the ability to count readership, and with it attractiveness to advertisers.
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