I was out to breakfast with my lady yesterday and we saw a middle-aged chap who stood out among the crowd by being well-dressed. What immediately struck me was his tweed jacket.

It was a nice brown tweed with subtle gold windowpanes in a three-by-three pattern. He stood next to us in line to pay and I could see that the brown was actually made up of many different colors of thread. Overall it was a very fine garment!

I complimented him on it and he thanked me but had no hint of having come from the other side of the Atlantic.

I will say that this looked very much like an estate tweed based on the photos I've seen on this site and elsewhere but I have no idea how such a thing might have happened! Or it could be that since estate tweed just looks nice, some vendors copy the style without regard to the origins.