26 CLASSIC TWEEDS & BLAZERS! Harris Tweed, 3/2 sacks, Vintage Brooks Bros., Corbin, Langrock, ++

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I have some wonderful tweeds, blazers, and and other jackets to pass on today, including some beauties by Corneliani for Polo Blue Label, a Langrock blazer, a GRAIL vintage Brooks Brothers 3/2 blazer in navy flannel, a GRAIL Andover Shop MTM blazer, a gorgeous vintage Glen Plaid 3/2 sack tweed from Saks, some wonderful Harris Tweeds in perfect condition, 3/2 sacks by Corbin and The English Shop of Princeton, and many more!

As always, I offer FREE SHIPPING ON EVERYTHING IN THE USA; International inquiries are welcome, with shipping at cost!

Also as always, ALL OFFERS ARE VERY WELCOME!

Please PM with interest and offers!

1) GRAIL! THE PLATONIC FORM OF A HARRIS TWEED JACKET!

This is absolutely wonderful! Likely dating from the 1960s this jacket is cut from utterly traditional and old-school Harris Tweed, the type of cloth that you think of when you think "Harris Tweed"--thick, solid, slightly hairy, worn by crusty old British Colonels on their country estates sometime around 1947. This is a very, very serious piece of cloth indeed, and is most definitely not for the faint of heart! The colours and patterning are also quintessentially old-school Harris, being a wonderful dark medley of dark moss greens, rich chestnut browns, and peat blacks.

A jacket like this could only be made in the UK, and this was indeed Made in England, and carries a wonderfully vintage label that proudly proclaims this. This is cut as a traditional English tweed jacket, with a three button front high narrow lapels, and single button cuffs. It is darted, as is necessary with tweed this heavy. It has a single center vent, and is fully lined in a beautiful damson lining that perfectly complements the dark tweed. It is in absolutely excellent condition, and ready to give you several decades worth of service. As such, this is a true bargain at just $50--jackets like this are becoming increasingly rare, and simply aren't being made any more.

Measurements:

Chest: 22 1/4
Sleeve: 25 1/2 (+0 - this is fully extended)
Shoulder: 19 1/2
Length: 30 1/8

 

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2) GORGEOUS 3/2 sack in beautiful blue tweed by Corbin for The English Shop of Princeton

This is absolutely beautiful! Tweed jackets in solid colours are extremely rare, and this is an absolutely beautiful shade of blue--please see my close-up of the sleeve for the most accurate colour and an indication of the wonderful complexity of the weave.

This jacket is cut as a traditional 3/2 sack by Corbin, one of the great traditional clothiers, for The English Shop, one of the Big Five bastions of Ivy Style during the Golden Age of the 1950s and 1960s. This jacket is fuly canvassed and half-lined. It features the rare and desirable patch pockets, has a single centre vent and a wonderful lapel roll, and has three button cuffs. Made in the USA, this is in absolutely excellent condition.

This is a truly beautiful and rare classic tweed jacket, and so is an absolute bargain at just $50, or offer, boxed and shipped in the USA.

Measurements:

Chest: 21 1/2
Sleeve: 24 1/2 (+1 1/2)
Shoulder: 19
Length: 30










3) CLASSIC Navy Flannel 3/2 sack Blazer for Harry Ballot of Princeton--with PATCH POCKETS!

This is a beautiful, classic navy blue 3/2 sack blazer cut from wonderfully soft midweight flannel. Made by Danton for Harry Ballot of Princeton (one of the Big Five Ivy clothiers during the Golden AGe) this has been superbly tailored. It is fully canvassed and half-lined and features the desirable and increasingly rare patch pockets with flaps. It has lovely natural shoulders. It has a single center vent, and comes complete with all of its original brass-coloured buttons. It was Union made in the USA, and is in absolutely excellent condition.

Asking just $49--a steal for a 3/2 sack navy blazer in flannel!

Measurements:

Chest: 21 1/4
Sleeve: 24 1/4 (+2 1/4)
Shoulder: 18
Length: 32





4) Classic Barleycorn Harris Tweed

This is lovely! Cut from a beautiful barleycorn Harris tweed in brown and cream this is a contemporary two button front jacket with subtle darts and a single center vent. It has three button cuffs, and all of the buttons are the traditional leather-covered, metal-shanked buttons that go so well with Harris Tweed. This has very natural shoulders. This was Made in the USA, and apart from some minor rumpling from storage is in excellent condition.

Asking just $35.

Measurements:

Chest: 19 3/4
Sleeve: 25 1/2 (+1 1/2)
Shoulder: 17 1/2
Length: 31

 

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5) STUNNING! Corneliani for Ralph Lauren Polo Blue Label.

This is absolutely gorgeous! Made in Italy by Corneliani for Ralph Lauren's Polo Blue Label line (not to be confused with the regular Polo line) this is cut from exceptionally soft wool that feels almost like cashmere. It is cut as a high-lapel 3/2 jacket, although this is not a sack as it is subtly darted, as you'd expect from Corneliani. It features the desirable and rare patch and flapped pockets on the front, and has four-button cuffs.

The patterning and colourway of this jacket are wonderful--a beautiful subtle Glen Plaid in a melange of dark moss greens, bark browns, and blacks, with a gorgeous and extremely subtle window-pane overcheck i Imperial Purple, this is a wonderfully sophisticated tweed. It is, of course, fully canvassed and fully lined. It has a single center vent, and is in absolutely excellent condition--the basting of the two front exterior pockets is still fully intact!

Asking just $75, or offer.

Tagged 42L. This measures:

Chest: 21 3/4
Sleeve: 27 (+1 3/4)
Shoulder: 19
Length: 31







6) Basketweave Harris Tweed from The Princeton Clothing Company

Like Langrock, The English Shop, Ballot, and Hilton The Princeton Clothing Company specialized in classic Ivy Style clothing--which naturally included Harris Tweed. This lovely jacket is cut from classic basketweave Harris tweed in a mixture of browns, creams, and slate grey. It is cut as a contemporary two button jacket with subtle darts, and has a single center vent. It is half-canvassed and half-lined and has very natural shoulders. The buttons are classic leather-covered and metal-shanked football buttons. Made in the USA this is in excellent condition.

Asking just $35.

Measurements:

Chest: 21
Sleeve: 26 (+2 1/4)
SHoulder: 17 3/4
Length: 31 3/4

 

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7) WONDERFUL Vintage Plaid 3/2 sack from Saks Fifth Avenue

This is absolutely wonderful, simply packed with all of the features that you'd want in an Ivy jacket! The cloth that this is cut from is absolutely lovely, being a bolder Glen Plaid with overchecking in shades of russet and forest green. The cut does full justice to the beauty of the cloth, being a classic 3/2 sack with a lovely lapel roll. This is fully canvassed and half lined. It features lapped seams along the arms and across the shoulders, as well as down the centre back; this seam culminates in a hook vent. It carries a lovely vintage Saks label, and was Union Made in the USA.

This is in Very Good/Excellent condition (as I'm conservative in rating vintage pieces, and this has a very small and very faded blemish on one cuff, as shown!) and a bargain at just $39.

Tagged 41 (vintage), measurements:

Chest: 20 1/2
Sleeve: 24 3/4 (+1 1/2)
Shoulder: 17 3/4
Length: 29 1/2










8) Trimingham's of Bermuda Classic LIGHTWEIGHT Navy Blazer

Trimingham's of Bermuda was founded in 1842, and closed in 2005. It was Bermuda's most famous and upscale store, and was a firm favourite among the Ivy set that vacationed in Bermuda or took cruises that stopped off there. Like The English Sports Shop of Bermuda it specialized in traditional British and Ivy clothing, and this blazer is a lovely example of its wares. Cut from a very lightweight cloth that's a wool-poly blend--although this just feels like very lightweight wool to the touch--this is a standard two button front jacket with darting and a centre vent. It is half-canvassed and half-lined, and carries Trimingham's signature brass "ship" buttons. It has very natural shoulders. This is in excellent condition except for a small strip of residue on the shoulder from where some fool attached a strip of masking tape to use as a price-tag! This will readily come out with dry-cleaning, however.

This is a true bargain at just $25.

Tagged 40L. Measures:

Chest: 20 1/2
Sleeve: 25 1/4 (+1 1/2)
Shoulder: 17 1/2
Length: 31

 

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9) GORGEOUS Classic Forest Green 3/2 sack flannel blazer by Corbin

The forest green 3/2 sack blazer is a true Ivy classic, and one that is rarely seen anymore--which is why I'm so pleased to be able to offer this one today! Cut from a wonderful lighter midweight flannel this beautiful jacket is packed with all of the Tradly desiderata. It has a lovely lapel roll, flapped patch pockets, and a single center vent. It is fully canvassed and half-lined. It has three button cuffs, and all of the buttons are Corbin's own signature buttons, and so are original to the jacket. It has very natural shoulders--Corbin, after all, are so proud of their natural shoulders that they had a "Natural Shoulder" line of pants!

It was, of course, Union Made in the USA by one of the great Trad clothiers, and, apart from a slight mark in the lining, as shown, is in absolutely excellent condition. This is a truly rare classic, and so is a bargain at just $49, or offer.

Measurements:

Chest: 22 1/4
Sleeve: 24 1/4 (+1 3/4)
Shoulder: 18 1/2
Length: 30 1/2






10) GORGEOUS Double-Breasted Blazer by Corbin for The English Shop of Princeton

This is wonderful! Cut from a lighter-weight light navy wool cloth that's perfect for wearing in the warmer days of Spring and Summer this lovely double-breasted blazer by Corbin has a 6 - 1 front button configuration and classic peak lapels. It is fully canvassed and fully lined and has a single centre vent. It has four button cuffs--all of the buttosn are Corbin's signature buttons, and are original to the jacket. This was Union made in the USA, and is in absolutely excellent condition. This would be perfect for garden parties or for your nephew's graduation from Princeton! This was made for The English Shop of Princeton, of the the Big Five Ivy clothiers of the Golden Age in Princeton.

Asking just $45, or offer.

Measurements:

Chest: 22
Sleeve: 24 (+3)
Shoulder: 19 3/4
Length: 30 1/2

 

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11) LOVELY Huntington 3/2 Tweed Sack. PATCH POCKETS!

This is lovely! A classic 3/2 slate blue-grey herringbone tweed sack with a very high lapel roll this lovely jacket has the ever-desirable flapped patch pockets, here with lapped seams. It is half-canvassed half-lined and has a single center vent. It has the classic two-button cuff, and is in absolutely excellent condition.

Asking just $35.

Tagged 42R, this measures:

Chest: 21
Sleeve: 26 (+1 1/2)
Shoulder: 18 3/4
Length: 30 7/8







12) GORGEOUS Brown Flecked Herringbone Harris Tweed Jacket

This is absolutely beautful! Cut from a rich dark brown herringbone Harris Tweed that's flecked throughout with the colours of a Scottish countryside--moss green, rosehip orange, gorse yellow, loch blue, berry red--this lovely jacket is a contemporary two button front model with subtle darting. It is half-canvassed and half-lined, and has a single centre vent. It has three button cuffs, and all of the buttons are the classic leather-covered and metal shanked football buttons that are a wonderful complement to Harris Tweed... and these are a lovely shade of burnished chestnut.

This lovely jacket was made in the USA, and is in absolutely excellent condition.

Asking just $39.

Measurements:

Chest: 20 1/2
Sleeve: 26 (+2)
Shoulder: 18 1/8
Length: 31 7/8

 

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13) Flannel Navy Blazer by Polo University Club. Patch Pockets!

1842 was a good year for retail; as well as marking the founding of Trimingham of Bermuda that year saw the opening of Thalhimer's store in Richmond, Va., which was to become the upscale and fashionable Thalhimer's department store over the course of a century, until its closure in 1991.

This lovely jacket was clearly first owned by one of the preppier denizens of Richmond, Va., or its surrounding suburbs. Cut from a lovely soft navy flannel, this is a contemporary two button blazer with subtle darting. It is half-canvassed and half-lined. It features the ever-desirable patch pockets, as well as a single center vent and Polo's signature brass-coloured buttons. It was Made in the USA and is in absolutely excellent condition--the breast pocket is still basted shut!

Asking just $35, or offer.

Measurements:

Chest: 21 3/4
Sleeve: 24 1/4 (+1 3/4)
SHoulder: 19
Length: 29 3/4





14) PURE SILK Armani Jacket. MADE IN ITALY!

Dating from when Armani was King, this lovely jacket was Made in Italy from pure silk. It is half-canvassed and half-lined, and features Continental-style jetted pockets--these are still basted shut! It has four button cuffs, and it is unvented, in Flusser approved style. This is in absolutely excellent condition, and is a bargain at just $39, or offer--likely around 1/25th of what it cost new!

Tagged 42L. Measures:

Chest: 21 1/4
Sleeve: 26 1/2 (+1 1/2)
Shoulder: 18
Length: 31 1/2

 

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15) LOVELY Bespoke Jacket--smaller size, surgeons' cuffs.

This is a lovely bespoke jacket! Cut from a beautiful dark petrol blue midweight wool cloth this is a contemporary two-button front model with darting for shape. It has twin vents, a signature lining designed to match the lovely colour of the jacket, and two-button cuffs--these are fully functional surgeon's cuffs. It is half-canvassed and half-lined and has a lovely narrow lapel. It is in excellent condition.

Asking just $35, or offer.

Measurements:

Chest: 20 1/2
Sleeve: 23 1/4
Shoulder: 18
Length: 28 3/4








16) Classic Basketweave Harris Tweed Jacket

A lovely classic Harris Tweed jacket in cream, brown and grey basketweave, this is a two button front model with subtle darts. It is half-canvassed and half-lined, and features clasic leather-covered metal-shanked football buttons. It was Made in the USA. It has a small blemish in the lining, as shown, and so this is in Very Good condition.

Asking just $29, or offer.

Measurements:

Chest: 21 3/4
Sleeve: 26 (+1 1/2)
SHoulder: 18
Length: 31 3/4

 

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17) GORGEOUS Broken Bone Herringbone 3/2 sack tweed by Corbin for The English Shop of Princeton. PATCH POCKETS!

This is absolutely beautiful! Cut from a wonderful broken bone herringbone in a medley of bracken, bark, and chestnut browns with subtle vertical striping in blue and dark golden wheat this is a lovely 3/2 sack tweed with a lovely high liquid lapel roll by Corbin for The Engliush Shop of Princeton. It is fully canvassed and half-lined, and has three button cuffs--the buttons all appear to be horn. It has a single center vent, and the ever-desirable flapped patch pockets. It has very natural shoulders. This was, of course, made in the USA, and is in excellent condition.

Asking just $50, or offer.

Measurements:

Chest: 20 3/4
Sleeve: 25 3/4 (+1 1/2)
Shoulder: 18
Length: 31 1/2







18) LARGER SIZE! BEAUTIFUL Harry Ballot of Princeton Guncheck Tweed.

Made for Harry Ballot of Princeton--one of the Big Five Ivy clothiers in Princeton during the Golden Age of Ivy Style--this lovely guncheck jacket has a russet windowpane overchecking a base pattern in a medley of forest greens and peat black on an autumnal brown base. Cut as a contemporary two-button model with subtle darting this is fully canvassed and fully lined. It has four button cuffs and was Made in the USA. It is in excellent condition.

Asking just $39, or offer.

Measurements:

Chest: 24
Sleeve: 26 1/4 (+1 3/4)
Shoulder: 20 3/4
Length: 31 3/4








19) GORGEOUS! Corneliani for Polo Blue Label Navy Blue Flannel Blazer

This is absolutely gorgeous! Made in Italy by Corneliani, this beautiful jacket is cut from a lovely soft and luxurious flannel. Elegantly cut as a two-button front jacket with slightly narrow lapels that flow beautifully into the front of the jacket; the placket and the lapels feature an abundance of pick stitching. This jacket is fully canvassed and fully lined, and features a twin vent. It has four button cuffs. The buttons are all Polo Blue Lapel signature buttons, featuring a crown and the RL monogram. This jacket is extremely luxurious, absolutely beautiful, and in absolutely excellent condition.

Asking just $65, or offer--an absolute steal for a jacket of this quality!

Tagged 44L. Measures smaller:

Chest: 21 1/4
Sleeve: 25 1/4 (+ 1 1/2)
Shoulder: 19 1/8
Length: 32

 

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20) NWT Swedish Double Breasted Blazer. Buttons by Sporrongs of Sweden!

A lovely classic navy double-breasted blazer cut from mid-weight wool this features a 6 by 2 front closure, peak lapels, and a twin vent. The brass buttons are made by Sporrongs of Sweden, a company that has been making medals, insignia, and small metal items such as buttons since the C17th, and which currently hols the Royal Warrant to supply these items to the King of Sweden. This jacket lacks sleeve buttons. It is fully lined, and NWT--hence it is in excellent condition. It was Made in Sweden.

Asking just $32.

Measurements:

Chest: 20 1/2
Sleeve: 24 (+2)
Shoulder: 17 1/2
Length: 28 3/4






21) SMALLER SIZE! RARE and CLASSIC Navy Blazer with THREE PATCH POCKETS!

This is lovely! Union Made in the USA for the tradly store The Locker Room, this lovely classic navy blazer is distinguished by having THREE patch pockets--a very desirable and very rare feature indeed! All of the pockets feature lapped seams. Cut from a lovely navy hopsack this is a contemporary two button model with subtle darting and a center vent. It has brass buttons and is half lined. It is in Very Good/Excellent condition--I'm conservative rating vintage items!

Asking just $32, or offer.

Measurements:

Chest: 20
Sleeve: 22 3/4 (+2)
Shoulder: 17 1/2
Length: 28 3/4

 

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22) GRAIL! The Andover Shop MTM Navy Blazer with Surgeon's cuffs.

This is absolutely beautiful! Made in 2008 by The Andover Shop--with Press and O'Connell's one of THE main Ivy stores still in existence--this is a beautiful Made to Measure blazer. Cut as a contemporary two button model with subtle darting this features an abundance of pick stitching on the lapels and on the placket. It is half-canvassed and fully lined in a beautiful Spring green lining. The buttons are solid brass, and the cuffs feature fully functional surgeon's buttonholes. It has twin vents. This is an absolutely beautiful and extremely elegant lighter-weight blazer from one of the most renowned Ivy stores.

It does have some minor shine from dry-cleaning--however, this can only be seen under certain artificial lighting conditions. Because of this, however, this jacket is in Very Good condition, and so is a bargain at just $45, or offer.

Measurements:

Chest: 22
Sleeve: 24 1/2 (+1 1/2)
Shoulder: 19 3/4
Length: 30 3/4








23) Bespoke Navy Blazer with Spectacular Lining!

This is a lovely blazer that it clearly bespoke. Cut as a contemporary two button front model with darting, this is cut from lighter mid-weight wool. It is fully canvassed and fully lined in a wonderful swirling iridescent pink paisley! This has a single center vent, and the heraldic buttons are all solid brass. This is in excellent condition.

Asking just $35

Measurements:

Chest: 22
Sleeve: 25 (+2 1/4)
Shoulder: 18 3/4
Length: 30 1/2






24) Bespoke Grey Blazer--ideal for summer!

While this is possibly (likely) an orphan jacket, this is both sufficiently light-coloured and sufficiently solid-coloured that it could do very well as a summer blazer with the addition of blonde horn buttons... and given that I am asking merely $25 for this, shipped in the USA, this could be a very nice jacket indeed for minimal cost!

Union Made in the USA in 2006 this is a contemporary two button model with darting and a single enter vent. The cuffs are fully functional surgeon's cuffs. This is also fully canvassed and fully lined, and cut from a lovely lighter-weight cool, making this ideal for conversion to a summer blazer. It is twin vented and features an abundance of pick stitching in the lining, on the lapels, and around the external pockets.

Measurements:

Chest: 21
Sleeve: 25 (+2)
Shoulder: 19
Length: 30 1/2

 

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25) GRAIL!! Brooks Brothers Vintage 3/2 Navy Flannel Blazer.

This is absolutely gorgeous! Cut from wonderfully luxurious heavier medium-weight flannel cloth in classic dark navy blue, this blazer is a true GRAIL item--a Brooks Brothers flannel navy blazer with a 3/2 lapel roll! Although this has the traditional 3/2 lapel roll note that this is not a sack jacket, for it features subtle darts. The reason for this Brooks anomaly simple--this blazer was made for Brooks Brothers' "Brooksgate" line, which was aimed at younger men just starting their relationship with Brooks Brothers (hence, "Brooksgate" being the gateway to Brooks Brothers). Since younger men (at least when this jacket was made..) have not yet acquired the girth that might be needed to make a sack fit well without needing side seam alterations to taper it this jacket is darted for a sleeker fit.... although the 3/2 lapel is still present to introduce the Brooksgate customers to its elegance.

In addition to have a 3/2 lapel--with, here, a beautiful roll--this blazer also has the classic two button cuffs, and the highly desirable flapped patch pockets. All of the buttons are Brooks Brothers' "Brooksgate" buttons (no longer produced) and so are original to this jacket. This jacket is half-canvassed and half-lined, and has a single center vent. It was, of course, Union made in the USA, and is in absolutely excellent condition.

Asking just $69, or offer, for this wonderful jacket!

Tagged (vintage) 41L. Measures:

Chest: 19 1/2
Sleeve: 25 1/4 (+1 1/2)
Shoulder: 18 1/2
Length: 31 1/2





26) GRAIL!! Langrock Navy Blazer

Together with Norman Hilton and Chipp Langrock of Princeton was primarily responsible for both developing and popularizing the "The Natural Shoulder Ivy League Style", and near the end of its life Langrock continued to run adverts proudly boasting that it was the ONLY remaining store in American that truly exemplified the American Look, by which it meant Ivy Style. So famous is Langrock that even its labels are becoming collectible, and so I'm very pleased to offer this wonderful classic navy blazer from the mothership of Ivy Style.

This blazer is also unusual, in that it is not a 3/2 sack, but instead a two button contemporary model with darting. It is cut from a lovely navy hopsack cloth--which turns out to be a blend of wool and polyester. This is not that surprising, though, since the polyester of the 1960s and early 1970s was NOT the polyester of today, but was woven so that it came very, very close to feeling just like wool--you wouldn't be able to tell that this was a blended fabric unless you knew. This jacket has a single center vent, is half-canvassed and half-lined. It has very natural shoulders, and red piping around the perimeter of the lining for added flair. It also features the ever-desirable flapped patch pockets, as well as heraldic buttons that were made by Waterbury of Conn.--a company founded in 1812 and the premier suppliers of stamped brass buttons in the United States. When Grant met Lee at the Appomattox Courthouse, both men were wearing Waterbury buttons on their uniforms!

This jacket is in excellent condition, and so is a bargain at just $49, or offer.

Tagged 40L. Measurements:

Chest: 20
Sleeve: 26 (+2 1/2)
Shoulder: 17 1/2
Length: 31 1/2

 

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2 and 3 have both sold.

 

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1, 2, 3, 17, 21, 22 are all sold.

 

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OFFERS VERY WELCOME!

 

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26 is sold

 

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again! no.1 just got away, gotta wake up here...

 

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again! no.1 just got away, gotta wake up here...

More coming this weekend!