New Tweed

[uppercase]

I don't know....I'm looking for a new tweed coat and now A&S is offering this bunch:

http://www.dashingtweeds.co.uk/dt/tweedrange/specials/

Should I go for it?

[Costi]

UC, it depends on how much humour and aplomb you have...
For my level of humour, there is one I would wear without second thoughts: Brown Square Peak, upper right corner on the linked page.
Most of the designs are very nice compositions in terms of colours, contrast, proportions... some of them are simply beautiful; I guess that's the issue, because they won't be hanging on a wall to be admired. A suit may be too much, but an odd jacket like this http://www.dashingtweeds.co.uk/dt/shop/ ... %20Jacket/ looks interesting. Perhaps it would look even better as a 3/4 overcoat, the large pattern will be better balanced with the size of the garment.

[yialabis]

I like /the primrose hill chick on this page
http://www.dashingtweeds.co.uk/dt/tweedrange/sporting
for either a coat or a suit . By all means , go for it UC..

V

[Frog in Suit]

http://www.dashingtweeds.co.uk/dt/tweedrange/specials/

You will spook the dogs!

[Costi]

http://www.dashingtweeds.co.uk/dt/tweedrange/specials/

You will spook the dogs!

And small children, too - but fortunately we don't dress for either of them

[Bishop of Briggs]

Uppercase, I believe that Richard Anderson or Huntsman offers Dashing Tweeds too. As you seem to prefer the traditional Huntsman one button style, you may wish to call them to check.

Cloths are personal taste so I will refrain on commenting on your choice above.

[uppercase]

Well, I see some of you would push me to consider the dark side, while others would attempt to save me.

What I find interesting is that such a traditional firm as AS now carries such tweed. I don't think that would have happened a few years ago....

The dogs, horses, children are safe for the time being! Still, I suppose that there is a place for being dashing, rather than traditional, in tweed.

[Bishop of Briggs]

How about this one button style - http://www.dashingtweeds.co.uk/dt/tailo ... or-summer/?

[uppercase]

You know, there's got to be a market for this stuff or I suppose that it wouldn't exist....

Now if Davis will make tweed shorts, I'm sure that Hitchcock over at AS couldn't say 'No'.

[Costi]

Well, they ARE called DASHING tweeds, so I suppose we ought to judge them with the assumption that they must be as they claim. As I wrote before, some have quite nice combinations of colours and, even if they are unconventional, the important thing is what you do with them. It is a challenge to make such a piece work!

When we admire THIS

we are, in fact, admiring THIS!

[alden]

What a coincidence, I met Mr. Guy Hills, founder of Dashing Tweeds, yesterday morning in London. The idea was to do a video segment for DWS, but we had such an interesting chat, the time ran out before we could do the filming. Stay tuned for a video to appear sometime in January.

Mr. Hills is the real thing. I had the opportunity to see a bunch/book of his tweeds. The designs are as entertaining as their creator. They are also the result of a good deal of study of weaving with a group of young textile designers. I found the choice of colors elegant as rendered in the purposefully modernist design where "form follows function." One of the key functions of these tweeds is to keep bicyclists easy to see and safe while commuting in urban climes. As someone who nearly perished in the tracks of a small truck while on a bike, I can appreciate this initiative. Order these very special products to your hearts content.

You can also wait to see the fruit of a tweed project that Mr. Hills and I will be designing together. I’m not sure if it will be called a London Lounge Dashing Tweed, or A Dashing London Lounge Tweed but I am sure it will be special. Stay tuned to the LL and DWS to learn more.

I hope Guy Hills will be joining us here very soon.


Cheers

Michael Alden

[uppercase]

When we admire THIS

we are, in fact, admiring THIS!

Wow. Costi, that is a revelation, I had no idea that was the color of that suit. I really have to sit down and absorb this now.

Obviously, Dashing Tweeds and Alden are now intent on playing with my mind with this new collaboration. But I'll bet that this cloth is going to turn out very interesting!

[Bishop of Briggs]

I was aware of the real colours but have not seen that photo before. The cloth is beautiful.

I have a feeling that Michael and Guy Hills will surprise us with their collaboration. I suspect that there is a big market for "urban tweeds" that make the most of bright colours.

[Costi]

Now that the sonic boom is behind us - if you pay close attention to the patterns, you will see they are not one and the same suit. The B&W picture is of the coat third from the left in this photograph:

Nevertheless, the pinkish suit in the colour photograph, cut identically to the one in the B&W picture (which is more salmon than pink) from a tweed with a slightly smaller overcheck, is just as real! Not to mention some of the other tweeds in the Duke's wardrobe - if those are not DASHING, I don't know what else to call them.

[Costi]

From Michael Drake's site http://www.drakes-london.com/scarves.php, on scarves:

An Aesthetic Anomaly We're Rather Proud Of
Well, sometimes it's easier to be new when you're starting out and don't know what you're doing, isn't it? But from the beginning I intended something new that had an individual handwriting, using only the finest of raw materials. We did all those solids, and then re-coloured some Tartans. Not exactly like building a particle accelerator to lay a purple over-check on a Black Watch pattern, but it was new at the time and customers lined up to buy. The first two were Old England and Agnes B, both in Paris. To our delight, we realized we were able to sell our product to the most conservative and the most fashionable shops. It's something of an aesthetic anomaly we're rather proud of, and which continues today