let's look at vintage check tweed

[McMurdo]

Its a shame we don't see more of it(older patterned tweeds) these days. Brings back fond memories of the older generation that I grew up with, along with the combined smells of pipe tobacco, cigars, gun pookay with itwder, peat bog and whisky/gin/port/brandy that seemed to cling to the tweed.

Aye it does cling to the tweed, I was looking for my Peterson pipe the other day and found it and some tobacco in the inside pocket of one of my vintage Argyll jackets. I'm sure the smell is there to stay, and I'm okay with that. Having said that I do love my circa 1930's Argyll in a herringbone tweed with leather buttons, the quality is far superior to what is out there today, if you don't mind picking out the occasional horse hair.