DROPS! TRAD JACKETS! 38 to 44. Harris Tweed, FULL NORFOLK, Guncheck, 3/2 sacks, Alpaca/Lambswool twe

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MY FIRST SET OF JACKETS FOR THE FALL!

I have several lovely jackets to pass on today--and many more are on their way!

As always, ALL PRICES INCLUDE SHIPPING IN CONUS; International inquiries are very welcome, with shipping at cost.

Also as always, despite the already-low prices, ALL OFFERS ARE VERY WELCOME!

NB: 3, 6, 7, 8, and 13 are still available

Please PM with interest and offers!
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1) BEAUTIFUL 3/2 Guncheck sack by Huntington

SOLD

This is absolutely wonderful, and is a fitting jacket to kick off my Fall 2012 season! Union-Made in the USA by Huntington, one of the great Trad clothiers, this wonderful jacket is simply packed with tradly desiderata: It has the classic 3/2 sack collar roll, has two front PATCH pockets, the classic two button cuffs, and a single hook vent. It's also fully lined. The fabric is wonderful too--a lighter-mid-weight cloth in a terrific guncheck in shades of forest and moss greens on a dark tan background. This really is a beautiful jacket, and, except for one small flaw--the former owner's name in the INSIDE of one interior pocket--is in absolutely excellent condition.

Asking just $49, or offer.

Tagged a 38R, this measures:

Chest: 21 1/2
Sleeve: 24 1/2 (+ 1 3/4)
Shoulder: 18 1/4
Length: 29 1/2

2) Norfolk Jacket in Donegal-esque tweed--with a 3/2 collar roll and striking lining!

SOLD

Strictly speaking, this is more of a modified Norfolk than a full Norfolk, since the belt does not extend right the way around the back, but, instead, consist of two demi-belts that fasten at the back. Be that as it may, however, the belt on this lovely jacket is fully functional, and is held in place by the two vertical straps that characterize the classic Norfolk jacket. This jacket also has a 3/2 roll, is unvented, and features the classic patch pockets on the Norfolk complete with lapped seams. It features a lining with a hunting horn, and a riding crop and helmet motifs--very 1960s! It has a single vent. It also lacks sleeve buttons, but close examination shows that these sleeves never had them, with the sleeve flaps still being unbasted. It is half-canvassed, and Made in the USA. Although the cloth from which it is cut is not identified as Donegal, it is an utterly Donegalesque feel, drape, and pattern, with flecks of dark red, cream, and black throughout the brown base. This jacket could do with a dry clean to freshen it up, but otherwise it's in excellent condition.

Asking just $75 > 50, or lower offer.

UPDATE: This price drop reflects the fact that I just discovered some minor damage to the lining under one arm, as shown below.

Measurements:

Chest: 22
Sleeve: 25 (+1 3/4)
Shoulder: 19
Length: 31

Damage:




3) COUNTRY TWEED--Three Patch Pockets, throat latch, elbow patches!

This is a really lovely, functional, country tweed! Half-canvassed and fully lined, this was made in the USA--shockingly, for Stafford, although looking back into the past even Stafford made some great items. It features the ever-desirable three patch pockets, a fully functional throat latch, and suede elbow patches. It has four leather-covered buttons on each sleeve, and two for front closure. It has a single vent, and was Made in the USA. This is in excellent condition--the throat latch has clearly never been used, and the elbow patches are unscuffed.

Asking just $45 > 38, or offer.

Tagged a 44R, this measures:

Chest: 23 1/4
Sleeve: 25 1/4 (+2)
Shoulder: 20 1/4
Length: 30 3/4

4) Land's End Baby Alpaca and Lambswool jacket

SOLD

This is a lovely jacket to carry you into Fall! The cloth is lovely--a lovely light green with a small overcheck in tan and chestnut, cut from 95% baby alpaca and 5% lambswool, this has a wonderfully soft hand and a beautiful drape. It is fully lined in Bemberg, features four kissing sleeve buttons, and a single vent. It appears to be half-canvassed, was Made in the USA, and is in excellent condition.

Asking just $45, or offer.

Tagged 42R. Measurements:

Chest: 22
Sleeve: 25 1/4 (+2)
Shoulder: 19
Length: 30 3/4

5) Land's End lambswool jacket

SOLD

Another lovely jacket to carry you through the dying days of summer and into the early Fall--and then into Spring on the other side of winter!--this is cut from wonderfully soft 100% lambswool, in a lovely slate grey with chestnut overcheck. It is half-canvassed, fully lined, and has a single center vent. It is in excellent condition.

Asking just $40, or offer.

Tagged 42, this measures:

Chest: 22
Sleeve: 25 1/4 (+2)
Shoulder: 19 1/2
Length: 30 3/4

6) TERRIFIC heavier plaid tweed by Polo--Made in the USA

This jacket is Ralph Lauren at his Anglophile best! Cut from middling-heavy tweed, this would be at home in an English pub or the Harvard-Yale game... which is just what the Anglophile trad. would want! The plaid features a lovely overcheck of forest green and rooster-comb red, and is wonderfully bold without being overpowering. This jacket is fully lined, hald canvassed, and features a single centre vent. It was Union Made in the USA. It does have some loose stitching in the lining at the vent, as shown, but otherwise is in excellent condition.

Asking just $45 > 40, or offer.

Measurements:

Chest: 21
Sleeve: 23 1/2 (+2 1/4)
Shoulder: 18 1/2
Length: 30

7) BEAUTIFUL plaid jacket in lambswool, from Land's End!

This is an absolutely beautiful jacket--if it were just a hair smaller it wouldn't be here, as I'd have claimed it! I can't really describe adequately the loveliness of the plaid, so please do look at my close-ups of it on the sleeve. The jacket is cut from lambswool, and has a wonderful soft hand and a beautiful drape. It's half-canvassed, fully lined, and features a single vent. It was Made in the USA. There is a single pinprick in the lining at the centre back, otherwise this is in excellent condition.

Asking $45 > 40, or offer.

Tagged a 41L, this measures:

Chest: 21 1/4
Sleeve: 26 (+2)
Shoulder: 19
Length: 32 3/4

8) Heavy Harris Tweed in classic brown herringbone.

This is Harris Tweed as it should be--thick, heavy, and ready to watch a rugby match in the pouring rain before going to the pub.... Or in this jacket you could play rugby in the rain before going to the pub! Cut from a classic Harris tweed pattern of alternating bands of herringbone and birdsfoot with a very subtle vertical periwinkle blue stripe, this lovely jacket was made by Jos. A. Bank back when they rivaled Brooks. Made in the USA this is half-lined and half-canvassed. It features the classic leather-covered football buttons and has a single centre vent. It does however have three small areas of weakness in the fabric, which can just be seen in the sleeve shot. These could be ignored, or else easily rewoven--my guess is that they were there from its weaving. Because of these, this jacket is just in Very Good/Good condition, and hence I'm asking

just $20, or offer.

Measurements:

Chest: 21
Sleeve: 25 (+2)
Shoulder: 18
Length: 30

9) Vintage 3/2 summer sack in RARE Shadowplaid!

SOLD

The last vintage shadowplaid jackets that I had vanished in under an hour from being posted, so if this is your size, grab it quickly!

This is a beautiful vintage 3/2 sack jacket in what is almost certainly lightweight wool. The shadowplaid is lovely; dark, rich, and very subtle--just what you'd want in a jacket of this sort! It appears to be half-canvassed and is half-lined, with a centre rear vent. It features the classic two button cuffs, and while its country of origin is not noted it is almost certainly Made in the USA in the Mad Men era.

Asking just $40, or offer.

Tagged a 42, this measures:

Chest: 22 1/2
Sleeve: 26 1/4 (+1)
Shoulder: 18 1/2
Length: 30 1/2

10) ALMOST FREE! Brooks Brothers 3/2 sack lightweight grey blazer

SOLD

This quite possibly started life off as a suit jacket, but given its colour and cut if you switch out the current buttons for blonde or tan ones it would make a very nice blazer! It's a 3/2 vintage sack, half-canvassed and quarter-lined, in lightweight wool. It has a single vent, a lovely lapel roll, and two button cuffs, as well as a very natural shoulder. It was Made in the USA. It does have some minor damage to the lining under the arm, and as such it's merely in Good condition. So, it's basically FREE--just $15, shipped in CONUS!

Measurements:

Chest: 20 1/4
Sleeve: 24 (+1 1/2)
Shoulder: 17 1/4
Length: 28 1/2

PREVIOUSLY LISTED JACKETS, NOW ALL WITH PRICE DROPS TO CLEAR!​

A) EXQUISITE BESPOKE JACKETS with tons of handwork and surgeon's cuffs!

I've been asked by a rather distinguished acquaintance to find new homes for a considerable amount of the clothing that he no longer wears owing to weight gain and retirement... and what better place to begin that here? He's aristocratically disinclined to try to "maximum return" on these items, and he dislikes ebay, so they're being passed on here in the hope and expectation that they will find new homes with people who appreciate fine clothing.

And these jackets certainly live up to this adjective. They are all bespoke, made by Charles, and boast simply lashings of handwork; the buttonholes are all hand-sewn, the lapels and edgings feature pick-stitching throughout, as do the interior seams, the pocket flaps, the collar...... and so on. The cuffs are, of course, fully functional. All of these jackets are fully lined, and they all feature symmetrical sets of interior pockets: The original owner was training himself to be ambidextrous so that he could fully utilize the custom-made pair of left and right-handed double-barreled shotguns that he had had made for him at Purdey's of London in the late 1980s, and which he used to hunt gamebirds in Scotland each year. All of the jackets are ventless, as he believed that (twin) vented jackets were only useful for persons who rode (horses) frequently--and disliked single vents.

Before moving to describe the first set of jackets individually, I should note that in addition to these I also have a set of "transitional" jackets (ie., to move between summer and autumn, and then Winter to Spring) from the same chap, and a set of heavier jackets, too. I also have multiple ties to pass along from the same source. I will be listing these later this month, moving into September.

Prices are, for the reason offered above, low to begin with, and, as always, already include boxed shipping in CONUS with delivery confirmation. International inquiries are welcome, with shipping at cost. Despite teh low initial prices, OFFERS ARE STILL VERY WELCOME, especially for two or more of these beauties!

PLEASE NOTE THAT MY PICTURES DON'T DO THE BEAUTY OF THESE JACKETS JUSTICE AT ALL!​

11) BEAUTIFUL lightweight poplin-esque jacket

SOLD

Another wonderful jacket, boasting full handwork throughout! This is a wonderful summer jacket, and is in beautiful condition. It does, however, have a tiny line of pickholes from restitching under the lapels; this was the result of a request by the original owner to alter the hang of the jacket to improve the lapel roll--and the results here were wonderful! There is also a very small snag in the lining around the middle of the back, the result of a careless discarding of the jacket onto a displayed trout-fly while the original owner was engrossed in examining fishing tackle. because of these character marks, this wonderful jacket is only $30, or lower offer. It is, of course, otehrwise in excellent condition.

Measurements:

Chest: 24
Sleeve: 25 1/8 (+2)
Shoulder: 20 3/4
Length: 31 1/2

12) STUNNING blue jacket, the colour of a perfect clear Scottish sky in high summer.

SOLD

There's a lovely story behind this jacket; the owner having been taken with the beauty of a perfectly blue sky over St Andrews while approaching the city from Straithkinness side to golf (the best way to approach the city from Leuchars' train station, rather than entering the back way by the new university museum, that takes you in by the Links, as this way you get to see the medieval city with its church and university spires and the Bay laid out before you when you crest the hill on the Straithkinness road) , he wanted a jacket cut in the same blue... and so this was later made!

Naturally, this is the same exquisite quality as the others, and is in excellent condition. My pictures fail completely to capture the blue beauty of this jacket; this is more "Light Peter Rabbit's Jacket Blue", rather than slate grey. My apologies!

Asking just $40, or offer.

Measurements:

Chest: 24
Sleeve: 25 1/2 (+1 1/2)
Shoulder: 20 1/8
Length: 31 1/2

OTHER JACKETS!


13) Brooks Brothers pincord--made in the USA.

A lovely summer jacket, this pincord from Brooks Brothers is subtly darted, and features a three button front. A more recent model, this is all-cotton, half-canvassed, fully lined, and features a center vent. It was made in the USA, and is in absolutely excellent condition.

Asking just $29 > 25, or offer.

Tagged a 43R, this measures:

Chest: 22 1/2
Sleeve: 25 1/2 (+2)
Shoulder: 19 7/8
Length: 31 1/2

4) Polo University Jacket--Made in Canada. Wool/silk blend.

SOLD

This is wonderful! Half-canvassed and beautifully cut from a lovely miniature herringbone in ivory cream, this lovely jacket was made in Canada for Ralph Lauren Polo University. The fabric is a 52/48 blend of silk and wool, and drapes beautifully. It is subtly darted, has a single vent, and is half-lined. It does have one very minor flaw--a small blemish on the middle of the outer left sleeve, as shown. This will no doubt come out with dry-cleaning. Otherwise, this lovely jacket is in excellent condition.

Asking just $25, or offer.

Tagged a 42T, this measures:

Chest: 22 3/4
Sleeve: 26 (+2)
Shoulder: 19 3/4
Length: 33