This trick will get old in a day, but while I am enamored of it, here are two tweed that you would think are similar in the closet, but are really quite different:
One is the Porter & Harding blue Lovat with electric blue windowpane (PH 32024, 18 oz.) used in a suit I recently got. The other is a Dege Lovat house check I ordered in 1996. It bears a very close resemblance to the NHTC 604, which is in the photojournal.
the Dege house check is a true Lovat. The Phitwell suit is, according to my invoice, a "blue Lovat" which seems accurate to me. Lovat is a beautiful melange that can run a wide spectrum but it generally has a mossy greenish cast. The blue Lovat is definitely at the blue end of the spectrum.
Just for fun, here are two other tweeds. The darker one on the outside is one of my favorites - it is a Ralph Lauren RTW jacket that is about a dozen years old. I was wearing it once at Raphael's when the W. Bill rep was there and she seemed very taken by it. The lining has big ink stains, but the tweed was untouched. Inside, is the "summer tweed" unlined, unpadded sportcoat made by Paul Stuart. The tweed is very coarse and so open that you can see right through it. I posted the interior of its twin, made of a more ordinary Donegal-style tweed in another thread.
Is the dark brown check also a Russel plaid, Alden?