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I don't think there is anything faux about the tweed, it's just machine loomed but it's real tweed. A purist could say that a true Shetland is always handmade but that stuff is not strong. And I don't just mean the Breamish, even the W. Bill hand loomed Shetlands are 2x1 and very loose.
Yes, it was perhaps too incommunicative merely to put "faux" in quotations.
The Scabal stuff is much sturdier (as well as 2x2) but still wears soft.
For tweed in the city, I think it about a versatile as a tweed can get. I love my brown one, and now I have two in this fabric. The colors in both are nice and variegated. The softness of the fabric, moreover, works well with the soft tailoring.
- B