tweed

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“He was wearing a tweed jacket and looked like a professor,” said Raskin, now at investigations firm Nardello & Co.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

Costelloe often used traditional Irish fabrics and textiles in his designs, including Irish linen and tweed.

From BBC • Nov. 22, 2025

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

The voluminous tweed trousers were durable and permitted unusually free locomotion.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole