Quote Originally Posted by Lime View Post
Presumably this makes it even more difficult to match the cloth if one has a very nice tweed jacket (as I have) which would be set off perfectly by a matching vest?

My jacket is in the "plain ginger" (if such a thing is possible with Harris Tweed!). The sample I obtained with a view to having a vest made, apart from being a very slightly different shade of ginger seemed to have more flecks of white which gave quite a different impression. Perhaps I should just give up on the idea.
Not at all! The amazing thing about tweed and Harris in particular, is that there are these little bits that stay in the background until you have something beside them and suddenly they stand out and make it 'match' or harmonize. I have a beautiful green and black herringbone jacket that coordinates with blues, browns, reds, and yesterday I wore Orange with it - works wonderfully. I have a dark grey Harris jacket that has blue, white, green, purple undertones that only really show when called upon by my pants, vest, shirt or tie.

This is amazing stuff, folks.