tweedydon
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I have a slew of beautiful jackets to pass on today, including some true beauties from Brooks Brothers (including a current Italian-made 3/2 sack), Dunhill, a gorgeous vintage 3/2 sack with classically narrow lapels, and more1
As always, I offer FREE SHIPPING ON EVERYTHING IN THE US; International inquiries are also welcome, with shipping at cost.
Also as always, ALL OFFERS ARE VERY WELCOME!
Please PM with interest and offers!
1) GORGEOUS Made in Italy Brooks Brothers 3/2 sack in herringbone lambswool. Patch Pockets!
SOLD
This is absolutely beautiful! A classic 3/2 sack with a very elegant lapel roll, this recent jacket from Brooks Brothers was Made in Italy. Cut from wonderfully soft lambswool in a classic light brown herringbone this jacket has a lovely hand and a beautiful drape. It is half-canvassed and fully lined, and features a single centre vent. It has three button cuffs, and features two flapped patch pockets. This truly is a beautiful jacket, and it is in absolutely excellent condition.
Asking just $60, or offer, boxed and shipped in the US.
Tagged a 43L, this measures:
Chest: 22
Sleeve: 25 3/4 (+2)
Shoulder: 20
Length: 32 1/4
2) BEAUTIFUL Vintage 3/2 sack--narrow lapels, classic 1960s colourway and patterning!
SOLD
This is wonderful--and perfect for the Trad or devotee of the Ivy Look who wants truly authentic clothing! Union made in the USA during the Golden Age of Ivy clothing--the era chronicled by Take Ivy--this beautiful jacket has all of the classic Ivy features. It is, of course, a 3/2 sack, with a beautiful lapel roll. The lapels are classically and coolly narrow, reminiscent of Beat poets, cocktails at five, and dashes across campus to attend the game. It has the always desirable but very rare three patch pockets, with the breast pockets angled perfectly correctly. It has a very natural shoulder--hence the measurement below. The two lower pockets are, of course, flapped. It has two button cuffs, and a perfect 1960s patterning and colourway, neither of which are seen anymore--a neat checkerboard in dark bottle green, black, and autumnal browns. It is half canvassed and half lined. Even the original locker loop is intact!
This is a terrific jacket--and if it's your size grab it, as these are, quite literally, no longer made.
I'm very conservative in rating vintage pieces, reserving "excellent" for those that are near mint, and this has a small repair to the lining at the vent, as shown. So, this is in Very Good condition--it just needs a dry clean to freshen it up!
Asking just $40, or offer--a LOT less than pieces like this are selling for in the "specialist" online Ivy stores!
Measurements:
Chest: 22 3/4
Sleeve: 24 1/4 (+3 1/4)
Shoulder: 17 7/8
Length: 31 1/2
3) LOVELY British-Inspired Guncheck! LIKELY UNWORN
This is a beautiful guncheck, and since it's cut from lightweight wool it's perfect for a chap living in a warmer climate who wants a jacket that's clearly for Fall, but who would die in a full Harris Tweed! A classic English guncheck, the colourway of this jacket in lovely, being a medley of lichen green, bracken, and chestnut offsetting the light brown background. This follows British tradition with its three button front; it is also unvented, in Flusser approved style. It is half canvassed, and fully lined. It was made in South Africa.
This jacket is likely unworn; it's in absolutely excellent condition, and all of the exterior pockets are still basted shut.
Asking just $40, or offer.
Measurements:
Chest: 22
Sleeve: 22 3/4 (+1 1/2)
Shoulder: 20
Length: 30 1/2
4) LIGHTWEIGHT WOOL GUNCHECK from Brooks Brothers.
This is another lovely jacket that would be perfect for someone in a warmer climate who desires a Fall jacket! Cut from very lightweight wool, this beautiful jacket from Brooks Brothers was made in the USA. A lovely guncheck, the colourway is classic and muted and perfect for Fall, being slate blue-grey, bracken, and rich chestnut. This jacket is half-canvassed and fully lined. It's a contemporary two button front with very subtle darts. It has a single centre vent. It's in absolutely excellent condition.
Asking just $45, or offer, shipped in the US.
Tagged a 41L, this measures:
Chest: 21 1/2
Sleeve: 25 3/4 (+2)
Shoulder: 18 1/2
Length: 32
5) CASHMERE & WOOL jacket, Made in Italy
This is lovely! Cut from a blend of 80% wool and 20% cashmere, this jacket has a wonderfully luxurious hand and drape--as you'd expect for a jacket made in Italy. The patterning is exceptionally fine and complex--my pictures don't do it justice at all, but merely hint at the beauty of the cloth which can only be appreciated close up. The jacket is a three button front with a slight and elegant lapel roll at the top button; it also has subtle darts, and is unvented, in Flusser approved style. It is half canvassed and fully lined, and in excellent condition.
Asking just $40, or offer, boxed and shipped in the US.
Tagged a 40S, this measures:
Chest: 21 1/4
Sleeve: 23 1/2 (+2)
Shoulder: 19
Length: 29 1/2
6) BEAUTIFUL and RARE Made in England Hacking jacket by Nicholson of St Albans.
This is a beautiful and rare jacket!
Nicholson of St Albans was an off-shoot of the Burton tailoring Group; it was intended to be their (re) entry into higher end MTM and bespoke clothing business to capitalize on the new prosperity of the 1980s and the accompanying fascination with upper-middle class "City of London-Family Estate in the Country" lifestyles, fuelled by the Sloane Ranger Handbook,the Royal Wedding, and similar events. By the 1980s Burton itself had moved away from its solid and respectable tailoring (think a UK Brooks Brothers back when it was uniformly good) to a more high-street image, and Nicholson of St Albans was intended to escape this. The clothing was all traditional, and very well made--easily comparable in quality to Chester Barrie, and approximate to Mears now. Alas, the experiment wasn't as successful as Burton hoped--they ran into the usual problem that artisan clothing simply can't be scaled up, and so profits remained low. Nicholson of St Albans folded in 1984.
This jacket, though, is still here--and shows just how lovely Nicholson's clothing was! Cut from a classic brown and cream herringbone tweed that is seriously sturdy, it's not surprising that this jacket has lasted the last thirty years with nary a mark on it and almost no signs of wear. This is cut as a classic British hacking jacket, clearly aimed at the Sloane market, this has all of the details you'd want; all of the exterior pockets feature lapped seams and are correctly sloped for hacking pockets, the ticket pocket is fully functional, and it has twin side vents. It has a traditional two button front and subtle darts, and three button cuffs. It is half canvassed and fully lined, and is Made in England.
As always, I'm very conservative with vintage pieces, so this is in Very Good/Excellent condition.
Given its provenance and sheer quality, this is a steal at just $75, or offer, boxed and shipped in the US.
Tagged a 40L, this is smaller:
Chest: 20 1/4
Sleeve: 26 (+2)
Shoulder: 17 5/8
Length: 30 3/4
Wait--I'm posting tweeds, and haven't yet included any Harris! That's just not right....
7) GORGEOUS Classic Harris Tweed, with flecking!
SOLD
This is absolutely gorgeous! At first sight, this appears to be a dark brown herringbone tweed--nice, sturdy, classic, but nothing exciting. But it's a Harris, and so when you get up close to it you'll see the full and beautiful effect of the tweed... This has a classic herringbone weave in dark brown and slate grey, the combination that appears almost as a very, very dark lavender when viewed close up. This tweed is striped vertically with sky blue, and is flecked throughout with with gorse yellow, forest green, peat black, moss green, pumpkin orange, and berry red, all heathered into the tweed. This is a really, really lovely example of Harris at its best.
The jacket is a contemporary two button jacket with leather covered football buttons. It has subtle darts, a centre vent, and three button cuffs. It was Made in the USA. It does have the start of a rub mark on the top of each of the interior pockets, and the interior label of the maker is fraying at the edges; this is thus in Very Good condition. (Neither of these can be seen when worn, of course.) As such, this is a steal at
just $30, or offer, boxed and shipped in CONUS.
Measurements:
Chest: 20 1/2
Sleeve: 23 3/4 (+1 1/2)
Shoulder: 17 1/2
Length: 28 1/2
8) CLASSIC Harris Tweed in Brown Herringbone
This is a classic wardrobe staple--a Harris Tweed in brown herringbone! If you don't have one yet, why not? This is a lovely; the tweed is subtly flecked through with specks of dark blue, forest green, and berry red--classic Harris colours, recalling the Hebrides where it's woven. The jacket itself features lapped seams down the centre back and along the sleeves, a single centre vent, and four button cuffs. It is a classic two button model with subtle darts; it is fully lined. It is also in absolutely excellent condition. This is perfect for the Fall!
Asking just $45, or offer.
Tagged a 40R, this measures:
Chest: 21 3/4
Sleeve: 25 (+1 1/2)
Shoulder: 19
Length: 30 1/2
9) UNWORN CLASSIC grey herringbone Harris Tweed.
Another classic wardrobe staple--the grey herringbone Harris Tweed! This is a lovely jacket, with a contemporary two button front, subtle darts, a single centre vent, and a full lining. This features four button cuffs. It is in absolutely excellent condition, and is clearly unworn; the vent is still basted shut.
Asking just $45, or offer, boxed and shipped in the US.
Tagged a 42S, this measures:
Chest: 23
Sleeve: 24 1/2 (+1 3/4)
Shoulder: 19 1/2
Length: 30
10) JUST $25!! BEAUTIFUL Dunhill jacket in Autumnal Glen Plaid
This is a lovely jacket! Cut from a lovely glen plaid cloth in a medley of forest green, loden, and moss, with a lovely chestnut check overlay. This jacket is a contemporary two button model with subtle darts. It is fully canvassed, and fully lined, and was Union Made in the USA. It does have two minor flaws: There is a single thread pull on the front, which could be a very easy fix for a dry cleaner tailor, and the cuffs have some minor wear at the very tip, as shown. (I only discovered these flaws when I was doing close-up photographing, so they are minor!) Because of this, this jacket is in Good/Very Good condition--and hence is a steal at just
$25, boxed and shipped. Yes, a USA-made Dunhill jacket that's in-season is less than the price of half a tank of gas!
Measurements:
Chest: 22 1/2
Sleeve: 24 (+2)
Shoulder: 20 7/8
Length: 30
As always, I offer FREE SHIPPING ON EVERYTHING IN THE US; International inquiries are also welcome, with shipping at cost.
Also as always, ALL OFFERS ARE VERY WELCOME!
Please PM with interest and offers!
1) GORGEOUS Made in Italy Brooks Brothers 3/2 sack in herringbone lambswool. Patch Pockets!
SOLD
This is absolutely beautiful! A classic 3/2 sack with a very elegant lapel roll, this recent jacket from Brooks Brothers was Made in Italy. Cut from wonderfully soft lambswool in a classic light brown herringbone this jacket has a lovely hand and a beautiful drape. It is half-canvassed and fully lined, and features a single centre vent. It has three button cuffs, and features two flapped patch pockets. This truly is a beautiful jacket, and it is in absolutely excellent condition.
Asking just $60, or offer, boxed and shipped in the US.
Tagged a 43L, this measures:
Chest: 22
Sleeve: 25 3/4 (+2)
Shoulder: 20
Length: 32 1/4
2) BEAUTIFUL Vintage 3/2 sack--narrow lapels, classic 1960s colourway and patterning!
SOLD
This is wonderful--and perfect for the Trad or devotee of the Ivy Look who wants truly authentic clothing! Union made in the USA during the Golden Age of Ivy clothing--the era chronicled by Take Ivy--this beautiful jacket has all of the classic Ivy features. It is, of course, a 3/2 sack, with a beautiful lapel roll. The lapels are classically and coolly narrow, reminiscent of Beat poets, cocktails at five, and dashes across campus to attend the game. It has the always desirable but very rare three patch pockets, with the breast pockets angled perfectly correctly. It has a very natural shoulder--hence the measurement below. The two lower pockets are, of course, flapped. It has two button cuffs, and a perfect 1960s patterning and colourway, neither of which are seen anymore--a neat checkerboard in dark bottle green, black, and autumnal browns. It is half canvassed and half lined. Even the original locker loop is intact!
This is a terrific jacket--and if it's your size grab it, as these are, quite literally, no longer made.
I'm very conservative in rating vintage pieces, reserving "excellent" for those that are near mint, and this has a small repair to the lining at the vent, as shown. So, this is in Very Good condition--it just needs a dry clean to freshen it up!
Asking just $40, or offer--a LOT less than pieces like this are selling for in the "specialist" online Ivy stores!
Measurements:
Chest: 22 3/4
Sleeve: 24 1/4 (+3 1/4)
Shoulder: 17 7/8
Length: 31 1/2
3) LOVELY British-Inspired Guncheck! LIKELY UNWORN
This is a beautiful guncheck, and since it's cut from lightweight wool it's perfect for a chap living in a warmer climate who wants a jacket that's clearly for Fall, but who would die in a full Harris Tweed! A classic English guncheck, the colourway of this jacket in lovely, being a medley of lichen green, bracken, and chestnut offsetting the light brown background. This follows British tradition with its three button front; it is also unvented, in Flusser approved style. It is half canvassed, and fully lined. It was made in South Africa.
This jacket is likely unworn; it's in absolutely excellent condition, and all of the exterior pockets are still basted shut.
Asking just $40, or offer.
Measurements:
Chest: 22
Sleeve: 22 3/4 (+1 1/2)
Shoulder: 20
Length: 30 1/2
4) LIGHTWEIGHT WOOL GUNCHECK from Brooks Brothers.
This is another lovely jacket that would be perfect for someone in a warmer climate who desires a Fall jacket! Cut from very lightweight wool, this beautiful jacket from Brooks Brothers was made in the USA. A lovely guncheck, the colourway is classic and muted and perfect for Fall, being slate blue-grey, bracken, and rich chestnut. This jacket is half-canvassed and fully lined. It's a contemporary two button front with very subtle darts. It has a single centre vent. It's in absolutely excellent condition.
Asking just $45, or offer, shipped in the US.
Tagged a 41L, this measures:
Chest: 21 1/2
Sleeve: 25 3/4 (+2)
Shoulder: 18 1/2
Length: 32
5) CASHMERE & WOOL jacket, Made in Italy
This is lovely! Cut from a blend of 80% wool and 20% cashmere, this jacket has a wonderfully luxurious hand and drape--as you'd expect for a jacket made in Italy. The patterning is exceptionally fine and complex--my pictures don't do it justice at all, but merely hint at the beauty of the cloth which can only be appreciated close up. The jacket is a three button front with a slight and elegant lapel roll at the top button; it also has subtle darts, and is unvented, in Flusser approved style. It is half canvassed and fully lined, and in excellent condition.
Asking just $40, or offer, boxed and shipped in the US.
Tagged a 40S, this measures:
Chest: 21 1/4
Sleeve: 23 1/2 (+2)
Shoulder: 19
Length: 29 1/2
6) BEAUTIFUL and RARE Made in England Hacking jacket by Nicholson of St Albans.
This is a beautiful and rare jacket!
Nicholson of St Albans was an off-shoot of the Burton tailoring Group; it was intended to be their (re) entry into higher end MTM and bespoke clothing business to capitalize on the new prosperity of the 1980s and the accompanying fascination with upper-middle class "City of London-Family Estate in the Country" lifestyles, fuelled by the Sloane Ranger Handbook,the Royal Wedding, and similar events. By the 1980s Burton itself had moved away from its solid and respectable tailoring (think a UK Brooks Brothers back when it was uniformly good) to a more high-street image, and Nicholson of St Albans was intended to escape this. The clothing was all traditional, and very well made--easily comparable in quality to Chester Barrie, and approximate to Mears now. Alas, the experiment wasn't as successful as Burton hoped--they ran into the usual problem that artisan clothing simply can't be scaled up, and so profits remained low. Nicholson of St Albans folded in 1984.
This jacket, though, is still here--and shows just how lovely Nicholson's clothing was! Cut from a classic brown and cream herringbone tweed that is seriously sturdy, it's not surprising that this jacket has lasted the last thirty years with nary a mark on it and almost no signs of wear. This is cut as a classic British hacking jacket, clearly aimed at the Sloane market, this has all of the details you'd want; all of the exterior pockets feature lapped seams and are correctly sloped for hacking pockets, the ticket pocket is fully functional, and it has twin side vents. It has a traditional two button front and subtle darts, and three button cuffs. It is half canvassed and fully lined, and is Made in England.
As always, I'm very conservative with vintage pieces, so this is in Very Good/Excellent condition.
Given its provenance and sheer quality, this is a steal at just $75, or offer, boxed and shipped in the US.
Tagged a 40L, this is smaller:
Chest: 20 1/4
Sleeve: 26 (+2)
Shoulder: 17 5/8
Length: 30 3/4
Wait--I'm posting tweeds, and haven't yet included any Harris! That's just not right....
7) GORGEOUS Classic Harris Tweed, with flecking!
SOLD
This is absolutely gorgeous! At first sight, this appears to be a dark brown herringbone tweed--nice, sturdy, classic, but nothing exciting. But it's a Harris, and so when you get up close to it you'll see the full and beautiful effect of the tweed... This has a classic herringbone weave in dark brown and slate grey, the combination that appears almost as a very, very dark lavender when viewed close up. This tweed is striped vertically with sky blue, and is flecked throughout with with gorse yellow, forest green, peat black, moss green, pumpkin orange, and berry red, all heathered into the tweed. This is a really, really lovely example of Harris at its best.
The jacket is a contemporary two button jacket with leather covered football buttons. It has subtle darts, a centre vent, and three button cuffs. It was Made in the USA. It does have the start of a rub mark on the top of each of the interior pockets, and the interior label of the maker is fraying at the edges; this is thus in Very Good condition. (Neither of these can be seen when worn, of course.) As such, this is a steal at
just $30, or offer, boxed and shipped in CONUS.
Measurements:
Chest: 20 1/2
Sleeve: 23 3/4 (+1 1/2)
Shoulder: 17 1/2
Length: 28 1/2
8) CLASSIC Harris Tweed in Brown Herringbone
This is a classic wardrobe staple--a Harris Tweed in brown herringbone! If you don't have one yet, why not? This is a lovely; the tweed is subtly flecked through with specks of dark blue, forest green, and berry red--classic Harris colours, recalling the Hebrides where it's woven. The jacket itself features lapped seams down the centre back and along the sleeves, a single centre vent, and four button cuffs. It is a classic two button model with subtle darts; it is fully lined. It is also in absolutely excellent condition. This is perfect for the Fall!
Asking just $45, or offer.
Tagged a 40R, this measures:
Chest: 21 3/4
Sleeve: 25 (+1 1/2)
Shoulder: 19
Length: 30 1/2
9) UNWORN CLASSIC grey herringbone Harris Tweed.
Another classic wardrobe staple--the grey herringbone Harris Tweed! This is a lovely jacket, with a contemporary two button front, subtle darts, a single centre vent, and a full lining. This features four button cuffs. It is in absolutely excellent condition, and is clearly unworn; the vent is still basted shut.
Asking just $45, or offer, boxed and shipped in the US.
Tagged a 42S, this measures:
Chest: 23
Sleeve: 24 1/2 (+1 3/4)
Shoulder: 19 1/2
Length: 30
10) JUST $25!! BEAUTIFUL Dunhill jacket in Autumnal Glen Plaid
This is a lovely jacket! Cut from a lovely glen plaid cloth in a medley of forest green, loden, and moss, with a lovely chestnut check overlay. This jacket is a contemporary two button model with subtle darts. It is fully canvassed, and fully lined, and was Union Made in the USA. It does have two minor flaws: There is a single thread pull on the front, which could be a very easy fix for a dry cleaner tailor, and the cuffs have some minor wear at the very tip, as shown. (I only discovered these flaws when I was doing close-up photographing, so they are minor!) Because of this, this jacket is in Good/Very Good condition--and hence is a steal at just
$25, boxed and shipped. Yes, a USA-made Dunhill jacket that's in-season is less than the price of half a tank of gas!
Measurements:
Chest: 22 1/2
Sleeve: 24 (+2)
Shoulder: 20 7/8
Length: 30
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