Quote Originally Posted by auld argonian
I've been mulling over the same thing...after watching last weeks installment of Monarch of the Glen and taking note of the outfit that Golly was wearing for a job interview, I had to think that his jacket, which was in tweed, bore a resemblance to what we in the US would call and "Ike" jacket (after the President and General Dwight David Eisenhower). Thought that there might be some promise in looking in for things using that as a sort of "keyword". I would assume that there would have been/still are things like that made in a suitably tropical material.
Golly's jacket in question was a standard tweed day jacket, not an "Ike" jacket, which is similar to the British Battle Dress Jacket of the Second World War -- the web site for Sav's WWII Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders reenactment unit has some good pictures of this style, which is a short "shell" jacket.

Cheers,

Todd