I have complained in the past that the most difficult cloth to find is that for in between season odd jackets. Tweeds are too heavy, linens too light, and most of the offerings in the ten to twelve ounce (300 to 360 gram) worsteds that aim to fill the gap between them attempt to look like tweed and fail, sometimes miserably.
Two books that manage to do a bit better are the fairly well known Moonbeam from Harrison's of Edinburgh and the somewhat more obscure Lamlana from W. Bill. Moonbeam is fairly plain but Lamlana, a soft ten to eleven ounce (320 gram) mixture of lambswool and Angora has patterns that are a little more interesting than most.
Worth a look.
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Will, do you have anything made up in Moonbeam? I don't care for it--far too soft. Too bad, because I really like the patterns.
Well it's lambswool. It's supposed to be soft.
At this end of the year do you mean the end of August, September and the beginning of October? I've never gone wrong by using part-lined wool coats.
The temperature here in N.W. Europe has dipped a little in the past week and I have been wearing a roughish herringbone wool jacket with no back lining. A sweater and scarf tops it off if I'm cycling back home in the evening.
I use two coats like this (made up locally by a Turkish tailor using, for this one, Calvino Vitale cloth) as odd-jackets right up to Novemeber when I switch to the proper winter clothes.
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