Curiously styled tweed waistcoat

[Two Types]

http://www.savvyrow.co.uk/products/wonderful-1940s-1950s-simpson-piccadilly-brown-h-b-tweed-country-waistcoat-36-37

Made in Scotland, for a London shop, but somehow looking like Tyrolean. A most odd looking garment. Rather nice in its own way.

 

[Fastuni]

These collarless buttoned lapels indeed remind of the Austro-Bavarian/Alpine "Trachten"-style. I'm not a great fan of this style, but I do love the welted chest pockets and the fabric. :eusa_clap

Somewhat Alpine/Tyrolean-styled items (foremostly hats though) certainly had some popularity in the UK and US for sportive clothing.

 

[Chasseur]

These collarless buttoned lapels indeed remind of the Austro-Bavarian/Alpine "Trachten"-style. I'm not a great fan of this style, but I do love the welted chest pockets and the fabric. :eusa_clap

Somewhat Alpine/Tyrolean-styled items (foremostly hats though) certainly had some popularity in the UK and US for sportive clothing.

Thats the same thing I was thinking, it reminds me of the Austria-Barvarian style waistcoats often in loden or leather on sees. In the European sporting/outdoors set I find there is a fair degree of cross over in cultural styles. You'll see some French or German outdoorsmen/hunters in British tweeds and flat caps, and a few British or French hunters with loden, German/Austrian style jackets or Tyrolean hats. So perhaps a British country gent wanted an Alpine waistcoat?

 

[Baron Kurtz]

This is absolutely awesome! I'll pass the link on to benstephens who, IIRC, is a Simpson's maniac.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

There's a pattern for one just like this (Figure 6) in Hecklinger's Vest Cutting, a Manual for the Tailor and Cutter, an American book produced in 1883. I rather suspect Hecklinger intended it to be made of fancy silks though …