Tweed making a comeback?

**Lallans** · 14th September 10, 11:21 AM

I miss the good old days of Harris and even of Donegal garb and have been on a rather lonely one-man crusade to bring those and tweeds in general back into Canuck fashion (hint: I can do no more unless the industry buys me airline tickets :hint). Anyway today I have been told by an associate that tweed is in fact "back," at least in women's fashion. Can this be true? Say it is so!

**artificer** · 14th September 10, 11:41 AM

Originally Posted by Canuck of NI

Anyway today I have been told by an associate that tweed is in fact "back," at least in women's fashion. Can this be true? Say it is so!

There was an article not too long back saying that the new "Dr. Who" had helped re-popularize Harris Tweed. I doubt THAT would be for women (in general) though. I'll see if I can use my mighty web-fu to dig it up.

Found one so far HERE

**auld argonian** · 14th September 10, 11:45 AM

When did it go out?

...and tweed skirts and/or suits on women? Schwing! Everyone from Wendy Hiller in lots of old movies to Noel Neill (Lois Lane on the old US Superman TV series) and I'll even extend it to Lotte Lenya as Rosa Kleb in From Russia With Love (okay...I'm stretching this a bit...).

Best

AA

**piperdbh** · 14th September 10, 11:46 AM

Yes, tweed is back. In fact, I took receipt of a jacket yesterday which I bought through the auspices of ebay. It has a few moth holes which I colored in with a magic marker, and now I have a "distressed vintage" jacket.

**Lallans** · 14th September 10, 12:04 PM

When did tweed go 'out' I am asked... I personally noticed it about three or four years ago when I set out to buy a Harris Tweed sports coat and after looking for an entire winter and summer ended up finding what were apparently the last ones left in North America, in the sale barn at Orvis in Manchester Center, VT. And even they were some sort of super-lightweight travesty of the real thing suitable for wearing in greenhouses or the US South in August- I ended up with the Orvis "Highland Tweed" items that I wear presently. Harris Tweed of course had that bad period, only recently ended, where the gentleman bought out the industry and didn't do well with it. And, distressed tweed coats can be sold on ebay? At the same time as I started looking as above, I donated half a dozen merely semi-distressed HT coats to St Vincent de Paul, who no doubt sent them for pulping and conversion to felt bootpac liners!

**2a5t2f7** · 14th September 10, 12:09 PM

I was in the local Goodwill store several weeks ago and found a "mint" (I can't tell it has even been worn) Harris Tweed in brown herringbone with a Joseph Banks label. It obviously was a great jacket that fit like a glove. Cost = $5.....

I also purchased off %bay a Harris Tweed jacket in grey/blue that Vmac is converting to a kilt jacket. Bring on the cooler weather!

**azwildcat96** · 14th September 10, 12:24 PM

I didn't know that Tweed was out either. I did just read in a recent fashion article that Tweed is in the top 16 Fall wardrobe must-haves, that are probably already in your closet.

**beloitpiper** · 14th September 10, 01:28 PM

I wear tweed all the time, thanks to my inherited wardrobe from my late grandfather! It's especially useful during Auwinting (autumn, winter, spring).

**Downunder Kilt** · 14th September 10, 02:09 PM

Hooray, My everyday clothes are back in fashion. When not in a kilt I wear corduroy p@#ts and a harris tweed waistcoat/jacket. I also have a lovely thornproof tweed jacket that I picked up for a song in a Op shop.

**Slag101** · 14th September 10, 03:06 PM

The first page of the new Eddie Bauer catalog has a tweed jacket (priced $699), as well as them being well displayed in the Orvis catalog, and various others. I ordered a custom tweed shooting jacket in August and my friend made quite a few jokes of it, but I had the last laugh when I told him to flip to the first page of the Eddie Bauer catalog.