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Message:: [QUOTE="SBSVC, post: 4273770, member: 136"]I, too, was thinking MENS. I immediately thought of the big Christmas "Open House" parties our family had when I was growing up (1960's.) Families would arrive with the females all in fancy dresses or matching plaid jumpers, and the males (Dads AND kids) in red plaid wool vests very much like this one. Usually there was a bow tie, too - often in the same plaid. The "trend" apparently continued well beyond the 1960's, too. Some young men still sometimes wear this look "ironically": the "nerd vest" with bow tie. During the 20 years we lived in the DC area, my husband and I continued my own family's annual Christmas  "Open House" tradition well into the late 1990's. I recall one family with FOUR young boys who ALWAYS showed up in matching red plaid vests and bow ties. The vest shown here looks nicely made, quite possibly sewn at home. The 3  different fabrics used for the front, the lining and the back don't seem odd to me at all. Men's suit vests often include three different fabrics, as this one does. To me, the buttons are more unusual than the fabrics.[/QUOTE]