Tweed Ever-popular for cooler weather, vintage tweeds provide a certain refined, traditional old-world insouciance like no other fabric. From the VFG Fabric Resource: With origins along the Tweed River bordering England and Scotland, the name tweed now is associated with a long list of fabrics, characteristically woolens, but also wool/manufactured fiber blends. The original tweeds were hairy and rough, now they are usually shaved, flattened and fulled in the finishing process. Still characteristic is the fairly coarse wool from which it is made. Tweeds are usually in twill or plain weave, also seen is herringbone and basket weave. Their colors may be plain, heathered, marled, checked or plaid. Slubs are characteristic of some tweeds. The name tweed is said to have originated in about 1840, when a London cloth merchant erroneously noted a consignment of “tweel” (Scottish name for twill) as tweed. Since the fabric was (and still is) made along the River Tweed, the name fits well.
One of the things I love about tweed is that it can look rather conservative from a distance and draw the eye in as you get closer. Case in point, this women's jacket. It is so luxe to the touch, I suspect there is some cashmere involved And a look up close:
This late 60s/early 70s pants suit is New Old Stock - if the cuffed elephant bells fit me, they would be in my closet And a closeup of the shirt-style jacket And a close-up of a 60s tweedy skirt suit done in eye popping orange and pink
1960's Suburban Miss Wool Boucle & Mink Collar 3/4 Coat 11-135 Size 14 Smaller skirt link in coat listing. 1970 Betty Rose Gray Wool Tweed Belted Mid Weight Coat 2-405 Size 16/18 1940's Thelsar Garments Gold Brown Wool Tweed 3/4 Coat 3-402 Size 14/16 1960's Harris Tweed Green Wool Tweed Sport Jacket 2-308 Size 41/42 1970's Woolf Brothers Tattersall Check Wool Topcoat 10-343 Size 42
Vintage 40s Fleck Tweed Hourglass Jacket Pencil Skirt / New Look Inspired Suit Vintage 80s Escada Reversible Wrap Coat with Skirt - Nubby Tweed or Glen Plaid
Vintage 1970s Celine Tweed Wool Brown Suit Vintage 1960s Connemara Tweed Green Wool Sui Vintage 1980s Yves Saint Laurent Harris Tweed Jacket Vintage 1970s Harris Tweed Trilby Fedora
1960's Harris Tweed brown check sports jacket: 1960's black & white houndstooth check tweed newsboy cap: 1970's Failsworth green/brown windowpane check tweed trilby hat:
