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Sentence Examples He was wearing a pair of dark grey trousers, a Donegal tweed jacket and a red, white and blue striped shirt. The chilly night wind hits me hard and I shrink inside that same tweed coat from this morning. Its inhabitants are grand old families more likely to be dressed in practical tweed suits than spangly synthetic crop tops. From argyle cardigans to tweed blazers, check out the look of fall 2004 and enjoy all the attention. The cravat is favoured again, worn with blazers and tweed jackets, for outdoor sporting events and cocktail parties on patios. Mother wore her new felt hat with the petersham ribbon around it and her light grey tweed two-piece costume that she had just bought for Easter. While last fall emphasized on simplicity, leather and denim, this fall is about checks, tweed and denim. Her coats featured jewel encrusted collars and belts, also made in tweed and checks. How dim was I to think my skinnies would go with last autumn's shrunken tweed jacket? I'd ban those mustard-coloured corduroys that Sloanes wear with stripy blue shirts and tweed jackets. Karan paraded familiar slouchy knits over minis, sequin T-shirt dresses, kicky ruffled miniskirts and black-and-cream tweed miniskirted suits. Donegal now describes the wool tweed that has colorful thick slubs woven into the fabric. Staten put down what he was carrying and put the bill in the breast pocket of his tweed jacket. Before they could move, however, a small newsboy, clad in a grey tweed vest and a grey cap, came up to them. Croft, sober in his tweed hunting jacket, tan buckskins and black, white-topped boots, grinned and went up to his friend. In his Norfolk jacket, breeks made from Glenturret's own tweed and yellow flashes in his socks, Alex Seldon is dressed for the part. To keep out the cold, in imitable British style, three-quarter-length car coats are back in tweed, cashmere and wool, featuring velvet collars. Check out the irresistible floral and tweed sequined skirts, tweed platform sandals and brooch-clasped cardigans. The exhibit also displayed many other of Coco Chanel's signature originals such as these Chanel tweed suits and various gowns and jewelry. There are some major instances of strobing and chroma noise in clothing patterns, notably men's tweed hats and jackets. Show More Sentences You can go from ballistic nylon, which is a commodity that everyone needs to have, to our heritage lines of tweed and belting leather. You can't go wrong with a pair of dress pants in tweed, herringbone, or wool or cotton with stretch. This fall you'll see rich fabrics such as wool, tweed and herringbone in colors like burgundy, navy, brown, and beige. Satin is used in a host of applications, while the fashionable tweed and herringbone patterns in wool fabrics likewise seek sheen. The 60's inspired schoolgirl suit in herringbone or tweed gets a modern edge thanks to Marc Jacobs. So I guess that like a tweed jacket or challis skirt, the passage of time has made it better than nothing! Men's classic suiting is coming out in patterns such as houndstooth, herringbone, glen plaid, tartan, pinstripes and Donegal tweed. He was attired in his dark Sunday-go-to-meeting suit, rather than his usual salt-and-pepper tweed. Donegal was originally a thick and warm homespun or tweed woven by Irish peasants in Donegal, Ireland. He threw a small tweed bag at her, and it chinked like stones as it landed at Drachna's crooked and yellowed toes. Squares and tartans, tweed, herringbone, and houndstooth along with other graphical and optical patterns abound. All I need is a cheap tweed coat with leather patches at my elbows and I could be dodgy salesman of the year. On his head he wore a brown tweed peaked cap and tufts of soft brown hair stuck out from beneath. Thankfully there are no bare naked ladies at the Thirsk office, but neither are there any twin sets and pearls, not even a tweed skirt. Satin top, full black skirt, velvety black high heels, tweed coat with black velvet collar. Solid colors are most appropriate, however pinstripes, herringbone, tweed and some plaids are acceptable. She seemed to have the most fun with tweed, gaily mixing textures such as a houndstooth alongside a Prince of Wales plaid. The association's conference hall was awash with plummy accents and tweed jackets. For an office-appropriate look, pair this thick lace sweater top with speckled tweed pants and flatform loafers for a unique, yet chic look. Its products include the renowned covert coat and a wide range of tweed garments. Show More Sentences This range will be based on the five core products and specializing in items such as tweed jackets, covert coats, and riding boots. The first man was described as being black, about 50 to 55-years-old, with crinkly hair and possibly wearing a tweed jacket. Connolly interpreted fashion trends using traditional Irish materials such as tweed, crochet and lace. The style gurus put their money on culottes, Miss Marple tweed and anything plum. A short while later it was opened again and a very dapper gentleman in English tweed opened it up to me. Heavier fabrics like tweed and woolens can use godets, of course, but the skirt will not flow as much. As she punched the elevator button and waited for the lift to the third floor, her other hand touched the pocket of her white tweed coat. Plain suiting and tweed is teamed with slick, shiny leather and fine jersey tops. It wasn't like this in the flat cap days of my grandfather, but I bet that even he wished that he had two tweed jackets instead of one. With his perfectly kempt moustache, wavy locks, black polo-neck and tweed jacket, he would breeze through an interview. For God's sake, woman, it's a tweed skirt and a polo neck with a pair of boots. Norton was wearing hobnail leather boots, a tweed jacket, wool knickers, and a felt hat. Add dazzle to your tweed, wool or leather suit with a bright-colored camisole underneath. So if you have an old fur piece kicking about, pop it on over a tweed skirt teamed with ribbed tights and court shoes. This season that means we are talking about contrasts and antitheses, wide skirts and narrow waists, silk and tweed, short skirts and high boots. She went off to Oxford in the late 1930s in a serviceable tweed suit and thick lisle stockings. But Rieu's tweed suits are asymmetrical and in contrasting bright colours, and her leisure outfits are decorated with a spiky geometrical motif. Look at the master tailoring of this fabulous dinner jacket or carefully balanced tweed and learn what it is to dress with distinction. I thought his pink confetti tweed skirt suit with an understated floral embroidered scalloped hem was right on the money. Some spectators wear Harris tweed and others carry polo mallets as accessories. Show More Sentences His tweed cap was removed only occasionally, and only long enough for a frustrated head scratch. It might be along the lines of what a fellow in a tweed coat confided at a barbie some months ago. Yeah, right, like any of us are going to stand shoulder to shoulder with someone wearing a Barbour and a tweed cap. I just retain the impression of a short, thickset, dark-haired individual dressed in hairy tweed and sitting in silence in an armchair. Not that I wander around in tweed jackets, nylon trackies or sandals, you understand, but the latest trends in clothing tend to pass me by. But with the advent of softer fabrics and the dreaded shell suit, fashions changed and the tweed producers fell on hard times. He then set up the flip chart in the corner of the room, and took a tweed trilby from the hat stand and arranged it jauntily on his head. Youth will be duly served if a young woman decides to buy her fitted abstract red stretch tulle T-shirt or the blue tweed trouser that came with. On one mission to London he thought it best to grow sideburns and sport a tweed cap. Of course, as a librarian she must now rush off and buy lots of Laura Ashley print dresses, cardigans, and tweed suits. There aren't many rappers who can pull off an everyday wardrobe of tweed, turtle necks and tailored jackets. Arriving at the Capital Hotel, he wears a tan cashmere coat, orange scarf and tweed cap. The participants are middle-aged men in tweed hats that you might expect to see on a British gentleman farmer. The cuffs on his shirt were frayed and his omnipresent tweed jacket had patched holes. This crisp striped tie will match perfectly with navy and gray suits, or light tweed suits. In the cobbled backstreets mustachioed old men in tweed jackets and gaiters drive decorated carts at breakneck speeds. Her clothes weren't very nice, in fact, her tweed coat had multiple small holes in it. Dressed in grey trousers, a black and grey patterned polo shirt, and complementary tweed sports jacket, he is short and stocky. Traditional homespun tweed trousers are still sometimes worn by Aran Islander men. She was a middle class young woman, tweed skirt and blouse type, successful, confident. Show More Sentences Favouring tweed jackets and silk ties, Don Alvaro, as he was known, became for a while managing director of the family business. Head first to Regent St and Old Bond St for bone china, fine art and antiques, not to mention a bolt of tweed for country attire. Wilfred, now bowed and shrunk, was still smartly dressed in tweed jacket and check shirt. Although the gray tweed hat was much too large for him, he loved it for the simple reason that he knew it had once belonged to Jude. He tried his hand at setting up a chain of movie theaters in Ireland, and worked at importing Irish tweed to Italy. Turner was always sartorially elegant, often in yellow beige riding breeches, Sam Browne belt, powder blue tweed coat, gleaming boots, and military hat. Among his favorite garments were a raincoat, a tweed jacket, and a gray wash denim coat with studded straps. His thick tweed jacket makes us suspect that he finds England colder than his home in Provence, but the coolness of the weather does not diminish his natural warmth. Irish fashion designers have always had a soft spot for Donegal tweed. Harris Tweed can have its imitators, but only tweed handwoven in the homes of hardy Hebrideans can bear the orb mark and the stamp of authenticity with the HTA provides. The adventurers, wearing hobnail boots and heavy tweed clothing, disappeared on June 8 1924 and were last seen within 2000 ft of the world's highest peak. My old jacket isn't even real tweed but only a passable imitation. To these he added beautiful topcoats in charcoal wool and tweed. Long ground-sweeping scarves and chunky knit toques will funk up and warm up any outfit, while newsboy and poor boy caps in tweed or cord complete the look for men and women. Never wear a matching two-piece tweed suit, but break it up by putting on a pair of baggy, mannish trousers or jeans with a pretty, shrunken, tweedy jacket. Sequoia was wearing black and white tweed capris and a pink polo shirt. Different fabrics and textures, such as tweed with satin, fur trim with wool flannel or bold stripes and a small houndstooth pattern, will satisfy your eclectic character. Brown, with his trademark long hair and tweed jackets, had undertaken a well organised campaign to be elected rector, a post unique to Scottish universities. If his jackets weren't wool tweed, they had patches on the elbows. The second time, I raided my stash and tried it with some felted tweed. Show More Sentences He was tall and wore a floppy fedora and a dirty tweed jacket. Lum is a fresh-faced recent graduate of Loyola Marymount, with dreadlocks and a tweed jacket. The auctioneer stepped up onto the gangway above the sheep pens, briefly registered the small crowd of burly men in padded waistcoats and tweed hats and cleared his throat. The 18-year-old strutted down the runway Monday in an edgy, off-the-shoulder, red-and-black tweed ensemble accented with feathers. We knew instinctively that anyone wearing a tweed jacket with leather elbow patches was a history teacher and those wearing ponchos were over-zealous social workers. Also, please note my tweed coat with leather elbow patches, which cements my authenticity and invites you to share with me your innermost secrets. On her first major public engagement in Ireland, she chose to wear a bouffant hair style, short Sixties-style tweed suit and black patent sling backs. Now that I had the money, I wanted a real Harris tweed jacket, and not just any Harris tweed jacket but a thick one, with more tweed in it than other tweed jackets. We are talking about the soft, unstructured Chanelesque tweed jacket, crucially updated with the raggedy edge that shoved it into the 21st century. The wacky electric-blue wigs my stepmother decided we should all wear for Christmas dinner weren't quite how I had planned to accessorise my Alexander McQueen tweed. The contribution of these experienced taste-makers has been evident since deliveries of their cute tweed jackets and pretty camisoles first hit Gap branches last autumn. From crew to V-necks and turtlenecks, any of these pullovers are sure to help you keep warm and look great, whether with a pair of tweed pants or jeans. Color accents and quilted details, like in the swingy miniskirts, were under long leather and tweed coats. Modern commercial activities centre on tourism, crofting, fishing, and weaving including the manufacture of Harris tweed. In his role as a college professor of archaeology, Jones is scholarly and learned in a tweed suit, lecturing on ancient civilizations. Arnold Zylberberg sat in the tweed wing chair in his oak-paneled study, intently stuffing Amphora tobacco into his pipe. She stood out from the crowd at the glitzy evening in a cute Sixties-style pink tweed dress. Anna Davies stocks many different brands and is orientated towards the countrywear and outdoor lifestyle with tweed, sheepskin and lambswool. Rather than manifesting as a full-on western trend, cowboy boots appeared with shorts, cropped pants and tweed pencil skirts. She displayed an enviably toned She displayed an enviably toned midriff in a lime green tweed Novis crop top teamed with a matching flared skirt. Show More Sentences Harry's woolly hats, tweed caps, donkey jackets and riveted jeans were a regular THE combo for pit workers. Mr Bloom walked behind the eyeless feet, a flatcut suit of herringbone tweed. He was wearing a beige sports jacket, light-coloured trousers, brown shoes and a tweed cap. The interior is more likely to be covered in a Mexican blanket or traditional Naugahyde than in fine leather or tweed. I recognized her at once even though she wasn't wearing the tweed hunting outfit and the kitsch headwear. On Inauguration Day in 2009, she chose a gray tweed dress by Milly. There's the layered look or the clean, slick silhouette reflected in double-breasted jackets, wrapover jersey tops, tailored tweed suits and silky shirts. Instead, Hardie wore a plain tweed suit, a red tie and a deerstalker. Welsh tweed manufacture survived at a much reduced level into the 20th century in Montgomery, where the area around Rhayader retained mills in the villages and small towns. Men in bowler hats and tweed jackets, ladies in jodhpurs and riding boots and teenagers dressed almost regimentally in Abercrombie shirts and plimsole trainers. Examples from Classical Literature Mike, on the cricket field, could not have looked anything but a cricketer if he had turned out in a tweed suit and hobnail boots. Joan, in her old tweed skirt and new canary-colored silk jumper, was stretched luxuriously on the thymy bents. So she trudged off to buy some yarn and some homespun tweed where she could get the most for her money. He was clad in jodhpurs and boots and an old tweed coat, with a brilliant blue stock at his throat. This man was the tweed of Mexico, and one of the most venal officials ever trusted by the people. In that instant when her cheek had touched his rough tweed jacket, she had been sensible of that woodsy pipy fragrance. He was wearing a black frock-coat and light brown tweed trousers, a white waistcoat and a royal blue tie. The lounge suit in summer is of blue flannel or very light cheviot or tweed. He wore a Norfolk jacket of bold pattern, a blue stock round his neck, and a tweed cap of fantastic shape. On Wednesday the tweed had been roaring red from bank to bank. A lady in a stout tweed skirt, who was bending over a flower bed, straightened herself at our approach. He wore a balmacaan of Scotch tweed and carried a round, plush hat. He was followed by a tall young man in a grey tweed suit and a straw hat on which were the colours of a famous cricket club. In the country one wears tweed or Scotch Cheviot and a Derby hat. The snobbery and greed of the tweed brigade can be just as ugly as the brutishness of the junkies and bullies of the nylon tracksuit clan. I got into this, and soon I was on the platform in my tweed suit. He was dressed in a tweed suit of fashionable pattern, and he twirled a gay walking-cane. He was a tall man with a thin, lean face and a loose-fitting tweed suit. Finally he unravelled a bundle of clothing, comprising a complete set of underclothes, socks, a gray tweed suit, and a short yellow overcoat. Trent was carelessly dressed in a tweed suit and red tie, his critic wore a silk hat and frock coat, patent-leather boots, and a dark tie of invisible pattern. Find more words! 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