When do you stop wearing tweed (northern hemisphere question)

[bringusingoodale]

Spring is almost here, and if you happen to live in a warm region, you know that the transition between winter and spring feels abrupt. I barely got to wear my tweed jackets I snagged at thrift shops and got tailored (thanks to SF

). And I just picked up a brown Harris Tweed that caught my eye on Ebay that I just couldn't pass on seeing that it fit me (with some tailoring I always have done) and that it was cheap (less than $30 shipped). But I foresee that the tweed is going to be hung up for a while as spring rolls into Los Angeles.

When do you stop wearing tweed? Does the calendar mostly dictate your seasonal wear, or does the actual climate? If you live in colder climates, does this mean you can potentially wear tweed well into spring?

I am hoping for some cooler winter nights to wear my tweed before their long slumber. (I don't really care about rules about wearing tweed at night).

 

[Rugger]

Soon as the grass turns green or leaves on trees.

 

[DocHolliday]

Once it gets too hot. On cold, overcast days, I'll wear tweed well into spring.

 

[Mr. White]

Califiornia: wear tweed when your car tires must have winter tread: November 1 to March 31. After then, I wouldn't wear tweed no matter how cold and rainy the night. (Maybe for San Fran I'd wear tweed a couple of weeks into April, if the nights still get into the 40s.)

However, warm-weather fashions are appropriate on any warm day. You could even show up at a Christmas party in summer linens and not be too far wrong.

 

[MyOtherLife]

Originally Posted by DocHolliday

Once it gets too hot. On cold, overcast days, I'll wear tweed well into spring.

+1

 

[Annadale]

In Ireland you can wear tweed all year round. It never gets really warm.

 

[twistoffat]

Here in Northern Europe Tweed is always in. Even in Summer the nights can be cool but certainly on warm days its a bit much. In Ireland and Scotland I always have my Tweed Jacket with me as the weather is so changeable

 

[ManofKent]

Originally Posted by DocHolliday

Once it gets too hot. On cold, overcast days, I'll wear tweed well into spring.

+1

 

[markspencer]

As soon as it gets warm outside, the tweet is off !

 

[Agatha Crusty]

Tweed, as fairly open-weave wool, wears quite cool well into spring. In the late autumn I'm still wearing tweed with a sweater layered over the shirt underneath. With only a shirt under, a tweed jacket can go pretty much through winter, spring, cooler summer days and autumn. It's only the height of summer that makes it redundant.

 

[JayJay]

I continue to wear tweed and heavy wools into spring usually on overcast days as long as daytime temps are in the 60s, at most.

 

[Master Squirrel]

I stop wearing it when sweat covers my entire back.

 

[Doc4]

I had been thinking of posting very much the same thread ... asking what is your cue for switching from winter clothing to spring. You beat me to the punch; he who hesitates, is lost.

Since most of my day, and I suspect this goes for most of us here, is spent inside a heated and/or air conditioned building ... and going outside in the actual weather is no more than the occasional 5 minute walk ... in some ways it comes down to appearance rather than comfort.

By which I mean, you are 'expected' to wear a tweed suit in the winter, and linen in the summer; to look the 'wintery' part in the winter and the 'summery' part in the summer. Colours, fabrics, layers: there's a season-appropriate look for each.

So once it 'starts to feel and look like real spring' around here ... most of the 4 feet of snow is melted, no more need for studded winter tires ... then I retire my winter stuff in favour of the springish stuff (which generally is my summerish stuff, with the exception of the linen items, which generally wait until it looks and feels like summer.)

That said, for me, tweed woud be something that if I can dress it up in a spring-like manner (pink or lavender shirt, or pastel tie, that sort of thing ... depends on the colour of the cloth) on a coolish spring day ... perfect.

 

[Dakota rube]

This thread could be paired with conne's seersucker question.
One goes on, the other gets moved into the back of the closet.

 

[bringusingoodale]

So it is mostly a matter of actual weather conditions. This is good to hear. So did most of you or do most of you wear tweed as 'outerwear'?--I had the idea before autumn started that I would wear tweed as often as I could more in the spirit of outerwear. Instead of wearing sweaters and layering, I'd figure I'd just put on the tweed. This didn't go to well, because, despite what I thought of myself, I really couldn't feel comfortable wearing tweed all the time when most men around me aren't even wearing shirts with collars

The best I could get away with, as a young guy in LA, was a "hipster" look, and this is not want I want to be perceived as. EDIT: I never have or will wear seersucker. I know I can't pull it off. I may try an odd seersucker jacket, maybe (is this even a good look or doable?)