New winter email received. Nice items, no Ivy jackets yet

To add a bit more information, the glen plaid tweed is a lovely fabric, if surprisingly lightweight. As you'd expect, it's unstructured and unlined, and the wool feels almost springy compared to a Harris tweed. I wouldn't want all my natural shouldered jackets unstructured, but I like it a lot.

I tried the chunky brown cord jacket. The fabric is really nice and heavy. In fact, I have wonder if the chunky fabric means the shirt sleeve style shoulder I protrudes a touch. 

The prices are creeping up, and I were it not the brown glen plaid I've spent a decade or so looking for it, I might not have rushed to get it.

Tried on the overcoat. Truly exceptional, lovely fabric. If you need an overcoat and have loads of spare money, id definitely recommend

Sadly I'm not sure. They brought the jackets up from the basement...I think they must have literally just arrived the day before. I suspect they'll be online within the next day or so...

Looks like they're doing the beige Moon tweed again.

Lovely fabric but I had to size up.

I'm looking forward to seeing the buggy lined options.

I was browsing on 'Dicks of Edinburgh' website , they have a wide range of Jamiesons knitwear and McGeorge of Scotland shawl collar cardigans, these look like the JS ones, 90% wool, 10% cashmere, the cardigans are £60 cheaper at Dicks, and the Jamiesons £10-20 cheaper, I'd guess JS would match the prices if anyone was interested and mentioned it, not trying to stitch up our favourite shop but ..... and Dick's often have a pre-Christmas sale with good discounts, I got a GRP shawl collar cardigan from them a couple of years back at a decent discount ,

The new Ivy jackets ( + trousers) have landed on the website, they all look very nice, the grey flannel jacket & matching trousers make a nice suit if anyone has reason to wear a suit these days, prices seem high to me but they are probably relevant in todays market, I've no need for jackets or formal trousers as well stocked like most here but the glen plaid check is a nice looking jacket, be interested to know if anyone has purchased any of these ( I believe they've been available in store for a little while now),

Anyone else pulling the trigger?

The glen plaid jacket is wonderful. Been after one forever, and so pulled the trigger. Lack of lining annoys me a touch, but it's great.

Wouldn't bother with the others (as I don't need any), and I'm not convinced the ivy jacket is absolutely perfect (it's still wonderful, mind). I'm after a chunky brown cord jacket (as the last one my list!) but the cord was really heavyweight, I wasn't wholly convinced on how the shirtsleeve style sleevehead sat.

Obviously, this is me being ludicrously picky, but otherwise totally unjustifiable adding more.

Kingston1an- ‘ I don't think a suit works with patch pockets - particularly a breast patch pockets.’

You are right of course, a formal suit would never have patch pockets. But, at the moment people don’t want formal, they want casual and relaxed - virtually all the time and in situations where casual would have once been unthinkable.  The way men are wearing suits is changing and suits are changing. So if you like to get dressed up for an occasion I reckon the JS Ivy jackets and trousers are spot on.

As I'm now in my mid Fifties it amuses me how styles I remember first time round are reappearing. I started wearing business suits in '85 when the double breasted ruled. It was typically Italian 4x2 bottom buttoning as opposed to the classic English 6x2.

The contemporary Italian DB wouldn't have vents, lapels were slightly wider to be proportionate to the wide shoulder and would have a very roomy chest drape.

Wogan interviewed Peter Bowles and you immediately recognised the difference.

Single breasted suits  as opposed to sports jackets were considered very dated for a long time.

No vent jackets. Another style that doesn't work travelling on a train. I inadvertently have two I never wear, but would be okay to the pub in summer.

Light weight fabrics are not very good for long term wear.

Mohair, on the other hand, is pretty good for avoiding creases.