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Donegals
Donegal, of course, is both a tweed and a county. It's been ages since the familiar barleycorn tweed was exclusive to Co. Donegal, but even in 1934 the Donegal weavers were getting into herringbones.
Magee is easily Donegal's (and Ireland's) most famous tweed maker. I bought this very tasty Magee herringbone jacket at J. Press in NYC a few winters ago (they've historically had very good bargains at their post-Christmas sales). The base colors are teal blue and a soft dark brown, with overstripes of rust and burnt orange.
Here's a 1970s (but very 1930s) belted-back jacket labeled to Sherman's in East Hartford, CT. This is a fine-woven black and tan barleycorn of undetermined origins, with red and teal blue slubbing. The finish is a little hard, so the coat tends to be scratchy.
I found this Joseph Abboud 3pc 3B suit on eBay. This is the traditional salt-n-pepper barleycorn, and much softer than the above jacket.
It turned out to be very close in shade to a wool-blend peak lapel jacket I already owned, made by Mexx, a trendoid boutique chain. So now I have, in effect, a 4pc suit with 2 different styled jackets.
The quote is from the "late fall" of 1934, according to the poster at the LL. I suspect it's from Apparel Arts magazine, altho he doesn't say so, perhaps because of copyright issues.cookie said:
Donegal, of course, is both a tweed and a county. It's been ages since the familiar barleycorn tweed was exclusive to Co. Donegal, but even in 1934 the Donegal weavers were getting into herringbones.
Magee is easily Donegal's (and Ireland's) most famous tweed maker. I bought this very tasty Magee herringbone jacket at J. Press in NYC a few winters ago (they've historically had very good bargains at their post-Christmas sales). The base colors are teal blue and a soft dark brown, with overstripes of rust and burnt orange.
Here's a 1970s (but very 1930s) belted-back jacket labeled to Sherman's in East Hartford, CT. This is a fine-woven black and tan barleycorn of undetermined origins, with red and teal blue slubbing. The finish is a little hard, so the coat tends to be scratchy.
I found this Joseph Abboud 3pc 3B suit on eBay. This is the traditional salt-n-pepper barleycorn, and much softer than the above jacket.
It turned out to be very close in shade to a wool-blend peak lapel jacket I already owned, made by Mexx, a trendoid boutique chain. So now I have, in effect, a 4pc suit with 2 different styled jackets.
