The ideal time for the black argyll

[MacLowlife]

In the Southern US, especially when you are going to be indoors, a barathea jacket is far more comfortable many months out of the year. If you go to a "kirkin o' the tartans" of a Sunday morning, an Argyll jacket is highly appropriate. A crowded church heated to 60 or 70 degrees is likely to be warmish for those in tweeds.

I will take advantage of this opportunity to air my own prejudice in favor of a NAVY argyll. Many men grew up wearing navy blazers for just-slightly-less-formal than suit occasions. A navy Argyll does this nicely. I have also found, under most lighting conditions that one can't easily tell the difference between navy and black at night, thus allowing you to squeak by with a navy argyll for black tie events.

The all-seasons aspect of barathea might eventually get you into trouble. Standing in a graveyard when it's 45 degrees, you might prefer the tweed, formality and versatility be darned. But those days occur much less often than the 85 degree ones in my neighoborhood.