Argyll Tweed Jacket with Waistcoat

[Blaidd]

I know Kilts4Less.com sells Argyll tweeds within that budget. I'm not sure whether they have a storefront you could visit while there. I purchased an ex-hire black barathea Argyll jacket & waistcoat from them, and I'm considering them as a possibility for a new tweed jacket & waistcoat.

Their factory outlet address is in Greenock:
18 Crawfurd Street,
Greenock,
PA15 1LJ
Might be a bit far west, depending on your direction of travel after Stirling..

[Mr stonk]

Recently I purchased an arrochar jacket from eBay UK (I'm in Glasgow) and decided to source a matching waistcoat.
I found a company based in Glasgow who are online that do ex hire and I purchased an arrochar waistcoat that matched my jacket... only £15 plus postage.
They have a good range of ex hire jackets and I'm sure they'd post to your location.
Company is called Gilt Edged

https://kiltjacket.co.uk/collections/ex-hire-stock

[figheadair]

Get yourself down to the Grassmarket and have a browse here - https://www.armstrongsvintage.co.uk/. Contact them ahead of time to ask what they have in stock.

[OC Richard]

I went through a devil of a time trying to match a tweed waistcoat to a vintage tweed jacket I really like.

At first I was looking at waistcoats, then fabrics, and finally vintage jackets from which I could salvage enough tweed for a waistcoat, but I never found a tweed that matched my jacket well enough to create the appearance of a matched outfit.

It all convinced me that one needs to purchase the jacket and waistcoat together. Or as mentioned above get both from a supplier that continues to use the same fabric.

About suppliers that continue to use the same fabric, a local Pipe Band here decided to go with green Argyll jackets instead of the standard black. They ordered 15 or so initially, then over the years as new members joined new jackets were ordered, always from the same firm, always specifying the same fabric.

By the time I joined the band (over a decade after the initial jacket order) no two jackets were the same shade of green! They varied from an extremely dark Archer Green to a bright Kelly Green and every shade in between.

Whenever I saw our Pipe Band standing in formation, this song came to mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzOSsZU_rb4