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#1 2009-12-19 06:46:59
- Taylor McIntyre
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Mid-Grey Herringbone Harris Tweed...
I bought a bolt of this in Bath this morning:
http://www.harristweedshop.com/classic-clothes/grey-tweed.jpg
(Mine is just slightly darker)
It was on a stall along with a load of old Black Crombies which smelled strongly of the death of their previous owners...
And yet my Tweed smells oddly strongly of boiled sweets - To be specific, Pear Drops.
http://johnny2scoops.co.uk/images/Large%20Pear%20Drops.JPG
Lovely!
I need to measure it up, but I feel a project coming on.
What would you do?
#2 2009-12-19 07:08:53
- AQG
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Re: Mid-Grey Herringbone Harris Tweed...
I'd have it made into something like a tweed version of Barbour's international jacket.
#3 2009-12-19 08:28:41
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Mid-Grey Herringbone Harris Tweed...
Hmmmmm - I hadn't thought of that kind of thing - Many thanks.
I wonder if I could contrive a City 'Field Coat'?
Urban Poacher style!
#4 2009-12-20 02:34:03
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
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Re: Mid-Grey Herringbone Harris Tweed...
... Or a PeaCoat?
I seem to have miles of this stuff for my 40 quid.
#5 2009-12-20 07:38:24
- AQG
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Re: Mid-Grey Herringbone Harris Tweed...
The urbanish vibe is what I had in mind. Some not quite symmetrical pockets, standup collar. That sort of thing. A bit more funk than a pea coat. Depending on the weight of the tweed, a quilted lining might be nice. And a bit of leather trim at the cuffs.
#6 2009-12-20 07:44:10
- 1966
- 1,966% Ivy
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Re: Mid-Grey Herringbone Harris Tweed...
Very "urban fashionista" mr Q, "paying hommage" with a pinch of "irony" and all that. Would be good for the bloggies.
Just make yourself a slacky sack Jim.
#7 2009-12-20 08:41:34
- AQG
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Re: Mid-Grey Herringbone Harris Tweed...
It's sometimes good to bet against the form, don't you think 66? Doesn't it seem rather too easy for a member of this forum to toddle off and get sacked? There ought to be a slightly higher standard of discernment within the Ivy look than that shown be the average forumite.
#8 2009-12-20 09:08:02
- 1966
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Re: Mid-Grey Herringbone Harris Tweed...
I'm all for it. At one point I even played with the idea of corduroy shoes.
I guess it was you using the word "urban" that set all the alarm bells ringing. I've just finished my first beer. I'm better now.
#9 2009-12-20 13:14:39
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Mid-Grey Herringbone Harris Tweed...
I suspect that we both meant 'Urban' in the old meaning of the word.
And Ivy even at its Tweediest is very urban.
- Pavements, not pastures.
maybe?
#10 2009-12-20 13:28:15
- 1966
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Re: Mid-Grey Herringbone Harris Tweed...
^ Yeah. I guess I just needed a beer. Now I'm having a Laphroig. Cheers.
A tweed Barbour still strikes me as gimmicky though. I even saw tweed on sneakers the other day.
#11 2009-12-20 13:40:32
- Natural Sole Brother
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Re: Mid-Grey Herringbone Harris Tweed...
I think a nice, natural-shouldered Chesterfield would be the best use of your tweed, Uncle.
No velvet collar, no ticket pocket. Fly-fronted with swelled seams and sateen lining.
#12 2009-12-20 19:36:42
- AQG
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Re: Mid-Grey Herringbone Harris Tweed...
While we have some differences of opinion, it seems as though outerwear is the order of the day. NSB, for you long coat idea, I'll see your Chesterfield and raise you a raglan sleeved, shirt collared, duster length coat with a self fabric belt.
#13 2009-12-21 02:31:50
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Mid-Grey Herringbone Harris Tweed...
... A Polo Coat? (I might even have enough as well...)
How much is on an uncut bolt of Harris? This has been cut, but I suspect not very much. It's pretty much a bale of Tweed. Heavy.
- Daft, I know, but... Tweed curtains?
#14 2009-12-21 02:42:49
- Moose Maclennan
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Re: Mid-Grey Herringbone Harris Tweed...
Seat covers for the Volkswagen? 
The field coat thing sounds a bit too Cordings of Picadilly for my taste, I'll go with NSBs coat suggestion. Ivory lining, on no account city red.
This might not be for you, but one day I plan to own a tweed jacket lined with rayon Hawaiian shirt fabric.
#15 2009-12-21 02:59:47
- 1966
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Re: Mid-Grey Herringbone Harris Tweed...
^ How's that for mixing seasons. It'll be the ultimate global climate confusion jacket.
#16 2009-12-21 07:03:44
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Re: Mid-Grey Herringbone Harris Tweed...
If the whole outerwear thing doesn't offer a solution, you could have it made up into a lifetime supply of y-fronts. Unlined.
#17 2009-12-21 07:13:51
- Moose Maclennan
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Re: Mid-Grey Herringbone Harris Tweed...
#18 2009-12-21 07:32:42
- Natural Sole Brother
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Re: Mid-Grey Herringbone Harris Tweed...
^
Like it says: Waygood.
#19 2009-12-21 08:28:12
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Re: Mid-Grey Herringbone Harris Tweed...
Moose, that is brilliant.
#20 2009-12-21 10:11:10
- mike
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Re: Mid-Grey Herringbone Harris Tweed...
You love him? He is hephaistion.
#22 2009-12-21 10:56:46
- mike
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Re: Mid-Grey Herringbone Harris Tweed...
You love him? He is hephaistion.
#23 2009-12-21 11:09:56
- The Ace Face
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Re: Mid-Grey Herringbone Harris Tweed...
The smell of jock straps and musty old tweed.
Draped and sculpted hep cat suit - as worn by His Royal Hepness, Cab Calloway