How old is your tweed jacket?
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Re: How old is your tweed jacket?
I have a couple of Tweed Jackets a winter and a summer/autumn one.
The winter has been with me for more years than I wish to recall and has taken on a life of it's own as I don't need to hang it up in the garage because it's stands to attention. Must be the years of Cheese and Sausage meat paste attached to it.
This year I bought myself from the bowels of fleebay a lighter and shorter version total cost about £40 from a well known retailer in London.
Bumble
The winter has been with me for more years than I wish to recall and has taken on a life of it's own as I don't need to hang it up in the garage because it's stands to attention. Must be the years of Cheese and Sausage meat paste attached to it.
This year I bought myself from the bowels of fleebay a lighter and shorter version total cost about £40 from a well known retailer in London.
Bumble
Re: How old is your tweed jacket?
I should have bought that Harris Tweed. Mine looks like something out of a pound shop....
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Re: How old is your tweed jacket?
I purchased mine about 6 years ago from a second hand shop. I have no idea how old it is but would like to know.
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I know the answer Mark, Sir. "Timeless" !Mark wrote:I purchased mine about 6 years ago from a second hand shop. I have no idea how old it is but would like to know.
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On a serious note Mark, Sir ... found this reference which may prove useful on a web search ... "just found this post about christopher dawes,going back a way but i used to work for christopher in leeds and hebden bridge uk in the 1980s."
http://askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/sh ... pher-Dawes
http://askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/sh ... pher-Dawes
"Beside the water I discovered (or maybe rediscovered) the quiet. The sort of quiet that allows one to be woven into the tapestry of nature instead of merely standing next to it." Estaban.
Re: How old is your tweed jacket?
The hat matches suspiciously well? I suspect you went to a tailor....?Mark wrote:I purchased mine about 6 years ago from a second hand shop. I have no idea how old it is but would like to know.
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Not at all Beryl, the hat came from a shop in Melton Mowbray for £6.00.
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where you find only elder trees, nettles and dreams. (BB - Denys Watkins-Pitchford).
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Re: How old is your tweed jacket?
Never had one! for me the best countryside coat is a Barbour.
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Re: How old is your tweed jacket?
I have a Derby tweed winter coat which a bought new a couple of years ago. I have a Harris tweed jacket bought secondhand in excellent condition, no idea how old that is.
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Re: How old is your tweed jacket?
The blokes that got to the top of Everest? It's a stunning material and now we are getting back to woolly underwear vis a vis merino sold as the new best thing we have forgotten.....
I got a merino long-Sleeved vest recently. Reduced from £60 to £20. It's good, but not that good...
I got a merino long-Sleeved vest recently. Reduced from £60 to £20. It's good, but not that good...