Argyll Jacket & waistcoat from 1900

[Tobus]

I have a waistcoat with pocket flaps as well and I really like the look compared to a more contemporary flapless pocket.

I concur on that point. I have two vintage waistcoats with lower flap pockets (one with antler buttons on the flaps, one with plain buttonless flaps). I prefer that look as well, and it makes one wonder if they were intended to be worn sans jacket. Yes, it has been said that the traditionalist stance is that a waistcoat should have a jacket over it, but why would they put decorative flaps with buttons that are clearly nonfunctional if they were never meant to be seen?

The close-ups of that tweed really show off the coarseness of the wool fibers. Given its age, I'm betting this was made from the now extinct breed (Blackface?).

The colour is very nice indeed! You wear it well. I would never live it down if I wore such a colour, given my university affiliation. Anything resembling burnt orange is a no-no for me.

[CelticSire]

Absolutely stunning!

[OC Richard]

That's fantastic.

From the evolution-of-Highland-dress standpoint the coolest thing to me are the super big pocket flaps on the jacket.

I've seen that in Victorian photos from time to time.






It's sort of like when a fisherman pulls in his net and there's some fish that was supposed to have gone extinct millions of years ago, flopping around and quite non-extinct. Those pockets are a window into how the skirts/flaps/tashes of the traditional Scottish doublet might have evolved.

Jackets like these hint at a missing link between Argylls and Doublets

[Me cousin Jack]

I like the coarse weave.

[McMurdo]

OC Richard I agree on the pocket flaps they do give a distinct look to the jacket that has gone by the wayside now. I am just glad to have it in my collection

[Jock Scot]

Well yes Steve the two jackets are brown, but a similar shade of brown? To my eye, I think not. Nothing wrong with either for sure, in fact I like your jacket, but..........

[McMurdo]

Well yes Steve the two jackets are brown, but a similar shade of brown? To my eye, I think not. Nothing wrong with either for sure, in fact I like your jacket, but..........

I must say I agree completely. The jacket posted by Steve looks closer to my other brown Argyll than this one.

[FossilHunter]

Crikey that cloth and hue takes me back to the 1940's! Fantastic! I am not sure that any of the jackets that I saw in those days could ever be described as new and could well have started life pre 1900. Sadly that wonderfully striking russet brown is rarely, if ever, seen these days.

USA kilts offers a tweed in what looks like a similar russet brown (herringbone in this case). The swatch is darker but I think that may be due to lighting. If I understand the code properly, it's from Marten Mills.

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From usakilts.com

[McMurdo]

USA kilts offers a tweed in what looks like a similar russet brown (herringbone in this case). The swatch is darker but I think that may be due to lighting. If I understand the code properly, it's from Marten Mills.

MM-CHE112.jpg
From usakilts.com

That looks extremely dark to me. I'm of the mind that this particular tweed colour is simply not being produced any longer.

[Jock Scot]

USA kilts offers a tweed in what looks like a similar russet brown (herringbone in this case). The swatch is darker but I think that may be due to lighting. If I understand the code properly, it's from Marten Mills.

MM-CHE112.jpg
From usakilts.com

I am afraid that that sample is nowhere near the shade of brown that McMurdo and I are talking about.