Dr H
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Thanks Seb, I really like this one and the tweed has such depth and variety of colour. Wearing it in autumn sun yesterday the russets really shone.
It’s a medium weight tweed, but quite a coarse weave so it traps air and is very warm despite the weight (although the jacket is only half lined). Consequently, it stretches well in use and feels more like a second skin than a typical heavier tweed.
It’s a pattern that divides opinion as it’s emphatically Edwardian in style and when I first put it on I thought that I had made a big mistake (as it wasn’t a cheap jacket, although I managed to pick it up at half price through a Japanese website). The tweed is forgiving, but the half belt/back vent/skirt aren’t and I was simply carrying too much weight. When buttoned, the vent gaped and the belt rode up. Post lockdown, and a stone lighter, the jacket now sits properly, and can be worn with a waistcoat or a thicker twill overhead shirt. I visited my tailor in Bristol yesterday and he approved. He’d made a sleeve alteration on the jacket back in January and had left me with the comment ‘the sleeves now fit, the rest is up to you’, which was an additional voice in my head when I felt like reaching for a biscuit...
Storage wise, It stays in a zipped breathable suit hanger when not in use (on a wooden hanger). I should look into some proprietary moth repellent to leave in the bottom (not camphor, which is just too overpowering).
I also have the cheaper, less authentic corduroy In the same pattern (they come up from time to time on EBAY). It lacks much of the detailing, but it’s still a good casual jacket. The cord is less forgiving than the tweed so it fits now (it’s a Euro 52/42”), but it will be better when I’m fractionally lighter.
