"Lovat" Tweeds

[scotrace]

In Esquire issues of the 1930's, one often sees an article of clothing described as "Lovat."
What is lovat? Is it a type of tweed cloth? A color? The illustrations with it are always smashing.

This from Orvis:

 

[Hemingway Jones]

Boy, I Lovat tweed coat.

 

[scotrace]

Well Done, Old bean!

lol lol lol

 

[BellyTank]

A tweed cloth originally commissioned by Lord Lovat.
An ingenious blend of the colours from Scotland’s pine, bracken, and heather.

Greenish with some violet in it.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Lovat

One of them was a WW2 Commando-

Simon Christopher Joseph Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, DSO, MC (9 July 1911 - 16 March 1995) was the 25th Chief of the Clan Fraser and a prominent British Commando during the Second World War. His friends called him "Shimi" Lovat, his name in his mother tongue. His Clan referred to him as MacShimidh, his Gaelic patronym. He is commonly known as the 17th Lord Lovat.


Covet that Lovat!

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[manton]

Lovat is a color. If we had to name it, most would say that it is " light green." However, it is actually a blend of seven colors in varying proportions. The cloth is yarn-dyed, rather than piece-dyed, so the color does not look uniform but speckled and mottled. Yarns of various colors are blended together during the weaving process of the finished cloth.

According to legend, there was an original formula for "true" lovat -- both exactly what dyes the yarns should take, and in what proportions they should be blended into the weave. Nowadays, apparently, no one remembers the original formula and each mill or weaver in Scotland has his own, which he jealously guards and claims to be authentic.

 

[mikepara]

Simon Christopher Joseph Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, DSO, MC (9 July 1911 - 16 March 1995) was the 25th Chief of the Clan Fraser and a prominent British Commando during the Second World War. His friends called him "Shimi" Lovat, his name in his mother tongue. His Clan referred to him as MacShimidh, his Gaelic patronym. He is commonly known as the 17th Lord Lovat.

Well? 15th Lord Lovat commonly known as the 17th Lord Lovat! Too much whiskey? lol

 

[Salv]

Well? 15th Lord Lovat commonly known as the 17th Lord Lovat! Too much whiskey? lol

According to the wiki:

The numbering of the Scottish Lordship used by Clan Fraser differs from the legal numbering in that it ignores the attainder of 1747—1854, with the result that the 16th Lord is termed by them "18th Lord Lovat".

... so the 15th Lovat would also be the 17th. These chappies north of the border are dashed odd, what?

He was the character played by Peter Lawford in The Longest Day who had his commandos piped ashore on Sword Beach, and went on to relieve Pegasus Bridge.

Sword Beach. Lord Lovat, on the right of the column, wades through the water. The figure in the foreground is Piper Bill Millin.

 

[Bernard Newman]

Did you know that Piper Bill Millin was played by himself in the movie The Longest Day?

 

[Baron Kurtz]

there's a great bagpipe tune called Lord Lovat's Lament.

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[Haversack]

Lord Lovat was also close friends with the actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. who unofficially went along on some of Lovat's early commando raids. Fairbanks in turn convinced the US Navy to start their own "Beachjumper" program.

Haversack.