The Perfect Green Tweed Skirt For Weekend Wear Handpicked by Claire

Green tweed does something no other skirt fabric quite manages at the weekend: it looks deliberate without looking dressed up. The flecks of colour woven through a good tweed, moss, olive, sometimes a thread of rust or navy running through the green, give it a depth that a flat wool or cotton skirt simply cannot compete with. That texture is the whole point, so the first thing worth checking is the weave itself. A skirt with a slightly raised, bouclé style surface will hold its shape and hide creasing far better than a smooth, tightly woven version, which tends to look flat under daylight and can crease sharply if you sit in it for a train journey or a long lunch.

Fit matters more than most people expect from a skirt in this fabric. Tweed has body, so anything too fitted through the hip will strain at the seams and lose the structure that makes it worth wearing in the first place.

The better ones sit at or just below the natural waist and fall to the knee or just past it, with enough room through the hip to sit down comfortably and enough weight in the hem to swing rather than cling.

A slight A line or a straight cut with a back kick pleat both work well; anything with too much flare starts to look costumey rather than considered.

Styling it for weekends is where the fabric earns its keep. It pairs naturally with a fine knit jumper tucked in, or a plain shirt with the collar left open, and it takes flat boots or loafers far better than heels, which tip the whole look towards office rather than Saturday. A cropped jacket in leather or denim cuts against the formality of the tweed nicely, and thick tights in a neutral tone extend it comfortably into autumn and winter. Jewellery should stay minimal; the fabric already does the talking.

This is a skirt built for market mornings, lunch with friends, gallery visits, the kind of day that has structure but no strict dress code. It photographs well against stone and greenery, which is no small thing if the weekend involves being outdoors, and it has enough presence to go from daytime into an early dinner without needing to change. Look for it in wool blends with a little stretch if you want the ease to last the whole day.