Tweed!

[darkemeralds]

There's this Tweed Ride that started in London last winter. They wear tweed. They ride in London. Down Savile Row where the tailoring comes from, and twice across the Thames, and through Hyde Park, and all around. And they give prizes: Most Dapper Chap, Most Dashing Dame, Best Mustache (open to all genders).

And maybe it's just me, but this fabulous photo from the event is just...*guh*...and makes me want to write early 20th century bicycle slash.

And anyway, we're going to have a Tweed Ride in Portland! In January. So I'm going to start hunting for something tweed to wear. This could make me get out my sewing machine again. It really could.

Comments

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

Tweed! It's the Anti-Spandex.

Yes, we do. Of course we get it from you guys. I've made my own tweed overcoat and have tailored a couple of jackets in my time. We can be quite woolly here in the Wild West.

OMG I'm going fabric shopping! I haven't done that in AGES.

[lamentables.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I've never had the nerve to make a coat.

\fabric/

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

I've made several over the years. The joy of making a coat (as distinct from a suit jacket, you understand, in American clothing terminology) is that coat fabric is heavier and patterns are generally simpler. There's tailoring, but on a much more forgiving level than a suit. A bound buttonhole in a heavy tweed is not nearly as finicky as one in a fine summer-weight wool, and the turn of a lapel can be a little less precise and still work fine.

I'm kind of excited about sewing again.