I ran across a couple of those last year. Kind of hitting myself in the head for not getting one.

I don't think they deliver to the UK, it appears to be either Hansens or Greenspan over here. otherwise type Pendleton/Rockabilly, into eBay, which brings original versions of the above.

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The nicer tweed jackets on both sides of the pond seem to have horn buttons, which is pretty much the classic British tradition.

Both leather and horn buttons seem to to turn up on vintage US tweed sack jackets, so probably more a matter of taste as opposed to authenticity.

... and I'm not suggesting that by wearing a sack with football buttons I would instantly look like a landowners son. I meant, if I went the whole  UK tweed jacket route.

That would be a no for me too. Cord already has geography teacher connotations, football buttons or suede elbow patches but it firmly in that territory for me. I do love a nice bit of cord though. A cord sack is on e of my wants ATM.

Surely it all depends on the cut?

A farm/landowner in his shapeless moleskins would look way different to chap in a pair of slim fit moleskins with frogmouth pockets, much as your average farmer/landowner would look different in his battered and worn wax jacket than a chap in a bedded in wax jacket, be that International style or Bedale.

Much as the Keydges are a million miles from country, so too can Wax Jackets and Moleskins - of which I wear both.

I am sort of in the middle of all of your views. I do not own a Wax or tweed jacket but have plenty of Corduroy and a lovely pair of Moleskin Chinos with Frogmouth pockets that i bring out when it gets very cold.
The only problem is a lot of people do not know what Moleskin is and i have had quite a few  over the years ask me if they are suede. I always reply “do i look like the type of bloke who would wear suede trouser”? Tattersall’s with a spread collar i find boring old country fart territory but with a button down i like very much. What are the views of that quintessential British Garb the Rugby shirt?
You could be mistaken for a Tim nice but Dim in one i suppose.

I want to dress/look Ivy/Americana, and spend hours trawling for stuff in my size. If I want to dress like an Englishman, there are three shops within 10 minutes walk where I can be kitted out.

A couple of Pendleton Topsters have now come up on Ebay, both sold by the same UK seller.  If only they were a different colour/pattern instead of reminding me just a little too much of, say, Filson or the older Pendleton plaid I was wearing in around 2007. 
Does anyone favour them? 
The best of the two on offer was about £90.  Reasonable enough.