"Hardcore Tweedists"

[Warbaby]

I'm seriously addicted to Harris Tweed jackets and with the exception of a few rare warm days here on the not-so-tropical island of Vancouver, I wear them year-round. I have various weights from ones that are no heavier than ordinary sport coats to super thick ones that keep me warm on the coldest winter days when worn over an Irish sweater. Fortunately we have a lot of retirees who move here from GB, so tweeds are a common thrift shop find. I usually buy every one I find that fits (and a few that don't if they're really exceptional patterns). I try to limit the selection in my closet to 8 or 10 jackets that get replaced as I find ones I like better. Those that I replace get packed away in a steamer trunk against the time when Harris Tweeds make a comeback and become worth what they should be worth. I'll refrain from mentioning how many I have so I can continue to maintain the illusion of sanity.

 

[cookie]

Fornication and Wearing Tweed

The old priests were famous for discouraging fornication..."hands off the tweeds and onto the beads" they were wont to say.....!lol

 

[Dr Doran]

Those that I replace get packed away in a steamer trunk against the time when Harris Tweeds make a comeback and become worth what they should be worth. I'll refrain from mentioning how many I have so I can continue to maintain the illusion of sanity.

They will shortly make inroads in the hip-hop crowd.

I've met you (at Sara's house) so I for one can vouch for your sanity.

 

[BellyTank]

I've a pair of Tweedos and tweed flip-flops for the summer.

Ah- glad you avoided mention of the Twee' string.
Sitting on a spike is sheer luxury by comparison.


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[Warbaby]

I've met you (at Sara's house) so I for one can vouch for your sanity.

Gee, Doran, thanks - no one ever vouched for my sanity before...

 

[WolfeMan]

 

[Dr Doran]

This must be a joke. Gently Caressing Tweed? That's like a "gentle kick in the head."

 

[WolfeMan]

This must be a joke. Gently Caressing Tweed? That's like a "gentle kick in the head."

Read the small print on the bottom, its a joke. But i felt it shoud be posted nevertheless lol

 

[filfoster]

Too Tweed or not to

To me, the wearing of Shetlands in summertime has a taste of blueblooded, ascetic manliness about it - a little bit of elitism, even, as if to say "we uppercrust Yankees are made of sterner stuff than those decadent Southerners in their linens and seersuckers. We're happy to sweat, in the office or on vacation."

It's a fancy-folks variation on the "woolhatter" tradition in the post-bellum South. In the fields, Black sharecroppers would wear straw hats to keep off the sun but stay cool. Sharecroppers of Scots-Irish stock, just as dirt poor but too proud to "lower" themselves to the level of the freedman, made a point of wearing their wool felts no matter how hot it got.

I dunno. I get your aesthetic but I think I'll go out on the porch in my white linen suit, a bottle of rye and me and Brick Pollitt'll play some sax in the heat of the night and wake Big Daddy and Maggie...wait, she ain't home. Again!

 

[Yeps]

From fall (which starts generally mid to late October in D.C.) through Spring (which may or may not include May) I wear tweed nearly every day.

 

[Edward]

Just the thought of tweed undies has me scratchin'.... lol

 

[BinkieBaumont]

" Stately, Buckley & Nunn LTD"

" the Home of Gentleman's "Intimate" Tweeds" Australian shearers needed heavy duty underwear, Sheep fleece is very high in lanolin and the wool gets every where and sticks!, Tweed 'Under Daks" provided protection"

 

[filfoster]

Sore behind

" Stately, Buckley & Nunn LTD"

" the Home of Gentleman's "Intimate" Tweeds" Australian shearers needed heavy duty underwear, Sheep fleece is very high in lanolin and the wool gets every where and sticks!, Tweed 'Under Daks" provided protection"

Oh man, I'm glad I didn't take up that trade.