My dad's tweed jacket

[Splain2me]

Hi all,
It's my first time posting, so I am sorry if this should have gone somewhere else.
I came across my dad's tweed jacket in storage. I don't remember him ever NOT having it, but I'd appreciate some help if anyone knows anything more about it, particularly when it was made.

 

[Awesomest Guy]

It looks like a sack coat, with a 3/2 roll, which is quite popular for the trad/ivy/preppy crowd. Its harris tweed, which is perhaps the most desirable variety. Based on the lapel width, could have been made any time in the 40s-60s, but due to it being unlined, I would think earlier.

 

[Tiki Tom]

Nice jacket. Harris Tweed is, of course, the type of jacket famously worn by Robert Langdon, the protagonist in Dan Brown's "Da Vinci Code" and "Inferno". (Literary critics sometimes complain that Mr. Brown name-drops the Harris Tweed brand name a bit too frequently. Like once every ten pages.)

 

[Seb Lucas]

Nice jacket. Harris Tweed is, of course, the type of jacket famously worn by Robert Langdon, the protagonist in Dan Brown's "Da Vinci Code" and "Inferno". (Literary critics sometimes complain that Mr. Brown name-drops the Harris Tweed brand name a bit too frequently. Like once every ten pages.)

I try not to let that put me off tweed. I wouldn't think literary critics would care about the tweed references when there are much more substantial problems with those books. But, that's personal taste, isn't it? Millions seem to like it.

The jacket looks like a basic three button tweed blazer - early 1960's, perhaps.

 

[Claudio]

To see if it is a 'proper' 3/2 roll, try checking the top button seam, if it appears to be sewn in reverse (the visible stitch being underneath - thus exposed when worn un buttoned) then it is most probably 50's at most. If the seam is the same as the rest of them then it could be older, don't know. It is unlined most probably it has a 'hook' vent (the break of the vent runs parrallel to the centre seam, thus not a straight seam running from top to bottom aligning itself with the centre vent) as it's the only way you can obtain a hook vent (either unlined or half lined). These were again popular in the 50's/60's but could've been a earlier detail, not sure. By the picture appearance I'm thinking early 60's - lovely coat non the less

 

[Dirk Wainscotting]

It's surely 1960s and late 60s at that. The shape of the collar is a clue.

 

[Hal]

It's surely 1960s and late 60s at that. The shape of the collar is a clue.

I don't know anything about collar shape, but am fairly sure that by 1967 or so two-button fastening and slant pockets on suit jackets and sports jackets were beginning to appear (or re-appear).
And - Seb - strictly speaking, there's no such thing as a "tweed blazer". A blazer is a sub-set of odd jackets, made of smooth navy-blue cloth with metal buttons.

 

[Seb Lucas]

I don't know anything about collar shape, but am fairly sure that by 1967 or so two-button fastening and slant pockets on suit jackets and sports jackets were beginning to appear (or re-appear).
And - Seb - strictly speaking, there's no such thing as a "tweed blazer". A blazer is a sub-set of odd jackets, made of smooth navy-blue cloth with metal buttons.

Just providing the OP with a common usage word should he try to find another jacket like it in the usual places - ebay and other on line places, where vertically all sports coats are generally called blazers.

As it happens 'blazer' is not a word we use here in Australia except to describe the jacket uniform of kids who attend elite schools. My own preference would be tweed jacket or sports coat.

 

[Hal]

...ebay and other on line places, where vertically all sports coats are generally called blazers.

That is undoubtedly, and unfortunately, true. Sellers also often use the word "jacket" as a general description for a longer overcoat or raincoat.

As it happens 'blazer' is not a word we use here in Australia except to describe the jacket uniform of kids who attend elite schools. My own preference would be tweed jacket or sports coat.

This is largely but not exclusively true of UK usage as well.

 

[Seb Lucas]

Curious. Online I struggled to find a corduroy sports coats until I typed in corduroy blazer. Then I found hundreds. Odd uses of language. If you type in corduroy jacket you'll find zip ups but not many "blazers."

 

[Hal]

Curious. Online I struggled to find a corduroy sports coats until I typed in corduroy blazer. Then I found hundreds. Odd uses of language. If you type in corduroy jacket you'll find zip ups but not many "blazers."

Yes, indeed; on eBay and the like one needs to be aware of the misuse of terms as well as of their "classical" meaning.