Regional association with jacket cuff styles?

[David Thorpe]

It struck me today that the three predominant tweed jacket cuff styles all carry place names -- Argyll, Braemar and Crail. Did each style originate at or near those places? Are they worn more often than the others in the areas for which they are named?

[Paul Henry]

It's nothing other than some manufacturers or retailers picking nice names, or names that they think might sell, and even then they don't always agree with each other!

[creagdhubh]

I agree, Paul.

[Pinkrose]

It is probably like Eddie Bauer and their Women's Pants Fits. Shaw, Mercer, and Blake are all islands around the greater Seattle area, but that doesn't mean that the women on those islands actually wear that pants with the name of their island.

[Phil]

The old-fashioned bespoke tailors each gave their jackets their own names. I have what my tailor calls a Montrose doublet but others would call a Kenmore. The same tailor calls his Montrose-type doublet a Military doublet. The mass-market retailers, however, seem to have settled on a fairly standard set of names for the different styles, all based on Scottish place-names, none of which have any particular relevance to the jacket concerned.

[David Thorpe]

Thank you to all. Rather like the Isle of Skye, Holyrood and Bannokburn tartans then.

[artificer]

Thank you to all. Rather like the Isle of Skye, Holyrood and Bannokburn tartans then.

Not quite. The Isle of Skye was designed by a woman living there, the Holyrood tartan was designed to commemorate the Queen's silver Jubilee.

The jackets cuffs are more properly called "Mariner's Cuffs", "Gauntlet Cuffs", and plain cuffs.

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