The train window was so dank with mist anyway that it was hard to see anything at all except the reflection of my own dark figure hunched down under the baggage rack in my black tweed coat and hat.

NPR: Excerpt: The Sherwood Ring

The tweed coat had been green when my father bought it for me in London that spring, but the nice old landlady at the little Scottish inn where we were staying when he was taken ill had firmly sent it out to be dyed the day before the funeral.

NPR: Excerpt: The Sherwood Ring

Fans of a tweed sport coat with corduroy pants for the office should opt for the sporty feel of a button-down collar.

WSJ: Guide to Men's Shirt Collars: Which Styles Go With Which Occasions and Flatter the Face

Around his tiny shop in various stages of completion hang hunting jackets in corduroy and moleskin, a tweed sport coat or two, and at least one sleek pair of knickerbockers with deer-bone cuff buttons.

FORBES: The Other Tuscany

In "Ivy Style: Radical Conformists, " out last month from Yale University Press, fashion scholar Patricia Mears traces the history of the modern sport coat to the interwar years, when Princetonians liberated tweed jackets from their matching bottoms.

WSJ: Mastering the Mismatch