tweed
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In a bedroom near pictures of her champions, Calvacca has laid out two St. John tweed skirtsuits, one pink and one purple, both with metallic-thread accents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026
Another is Harris tweed, the manufacturer of a fabric handwoven in the Outer Hebrides, which has risen from near death and now employs hundreds, selling its products all over the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
It's the show that has become synonymous with flat caps, waistcoats and tweed suits, but 12 years on since Peaky Blinders first aired its influence continues to run through the West Midlands.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2025
Henry, in tweed suits and suitably nebbishy glasses, feels more like a company man than his two colleagues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025
A man with a spongy face, a bushel of white hair, and a patched tweed jacket grumbles at Jakob from the bar.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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On the Scottish island of Harris, the setting for this novel, expensive tweeds are a costly commodity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026
With stars from Nicole Kidman to Dua Lipa looking on, the first outfits made abundant use of sheer silk muslin alongside Chanel tweeds before the arrival of more whimsical, avian-inspired styles.
From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026
As frost crystallizes on the windows, velvet, silk, wool, faux fur and tweeds come to the fore inside.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
At the Conservative Party conference there really were young men in pin-striped suits or tweeds, as well as women of a certain age wearing pearls.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2022
I had a picture of Mrs. Willard, with her heather-mixture tweeds and her sensible shoes and her wise, maternal maxims.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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