Tag: tweed
Style February 2020
THE DEVIL WEARS KENT, HASTE AND LACHTER
When the master tailor Terry Haste asked Nick Foulkes to come up with the designs for three new tweeds, The Rake’s Contributing Editor was in his element. Now, surely, Foulkes had reached his life’s destination: to create a pattern so distinctive — indeed, exclusive — that only he would or could wear it…
Style October 2018
A Very Highland Fling: Walker Slater x Harris Tweed Hebrides
Following a caffeine-fuelled brainstorm in Florence earlier this year, The Rake has joined forces with two Scottish powerhouses to produce an extremely versatile Harris Tweed sports jacket that’s exclusive to The Rake.
Style September 2018
What to Wear in Autumn
With elegance, adaptability and a little colour, tweed and flannel will lift your spirits when the leaves – and the mercury – start to fall. Here’s what to wear in autumn.
Style December 2017
How to Wear a Peaked Cap
Popular throughout history with everyone from princes to paupers, the peaked cap has recently crept back onto the menswear landscape, and The Rake thinks it’s about time, too.
Craft October 2017
Harris Tweed: The Pride of Scotland's Outer Hebrides
Harris Tweed is the only textile protected by a law of British parliament. But as The Rake discovered, it is not the only thing that makes this cloth special.
Style March 2017
Contemporary Tweed Specialist: Walker Slater
The Rake heads up to Edinburgh to visit Walker Slater, the Scottish tailoring brand that’s reviving tweed with its contemporary house styles and approach to the cloth.
News March 2017
Huntsman Savile Row's Tweed Competition
The Rake’s own Tom Chamberlin reports from the final of Huntsman’s tweed competition.
News January 2017
Create Your Own Bespoke Tweed with Huntsman
Savile Row tailor Huntsman is offering the opportunity for you to flex your creative muscles and win the chance to design your very own bespoke tweed, and have it made…
Craft June 2016
The Huntsman Tweed Project, Part I: The Islay Woollen Mill
Introducing the Huntsman urban tweed project, a unique collaboration between The Rake and Savile Row’s undisputed champion of tweed.
