Reasons To Choose Tweed Wedding Suit
If you think of tweed, you'll probably picture an old-fashioned gentleman from the country strolling through the gardens of his home, adorned and carrying a shotgun on his shoulder. Fortunately, that's not the situation. Television shows such as The Crown and Peaky Blinders have brought tweed back into the fashion world, which is why more grooms are opting for tweed wedding suits. Background of the tweed Tweed can be described as a coarse and tightly-woven woolen fabric that has an elastic texture. It was first referred to as"tweel" (Scots meaning twill) because it was weaved with a twill rather than a plain. One theory about the change of name suggested a London merchant during the 1890s misinterpreting the word tweel in the 1800s as tweed and believed that the name came directly from the River Tweed that runs across the Scottish Borders textile area. In the end, the tweels he offered could be advertised as tweed. Eventually, the name stuck. Being waterproof and dur...