What is your field style? Everyone has a look and it starts with the car in which you arrive outside the shoot room. A Range Rover Vogue, a Porsche Panamera, classic Bentley Continental, an Audi Q8 or perhaps a vintage Land Rover? Whatever it is, people are already deciding what kind of chap you are as your tyres crunch over the gravel.
Stepping out of your vehicle and accepting the handshake of your host, your attire will help fill in the gaps. At Westley Richards, we have all the options for you to create your own personal field style. Go for one or mix and match to find the balance you feel best suits you.
Traditional means tweed. Tweed can be traditionally subtle or traditionally garish. Both extremes have their roots in upper-class Edwardian shooting types vying to out-do one another sartorially, within the confines of appropriate outdoor attire.
Fortunately, Scottish and English tweed mills have long provided a wide range of options. Our House Tweed, in a subtle and perennially popular dark green hue fulfils the needs of the more conservative sportsman, impeccably cut and hard wearing, the combination of breeks, jacket and waistcoat provides the basic traditional shooting ensemble, which may be dressed up or down by choosing the appropriate colour socks, tie and shirt.
For the more extrovert shot, Harpton Tweed offers a rather more impactful entrance in the bar, while adapting surprisingly well to its camouflage role on the moors. This too, may be made more or less expressive by pairing a brighter or darker shirt, socks, tie combination.
Whichever tweed choice wins your favour, rest assured that tweed is the absolute staple for that classic shooting look; one which has never been out of fashion and is never likely to age badly.
The thing about a good tweed shooting suit is that even as it ages and gets a bit worn and torn, the overall effect is simply to make you look like you have been at it a very long time and therefore, gains you a reputation as something of a classic yourself.
Some younger shots find the tweed look a little aged, notwithstanding the whiff of Cool Britannia injected by recent television shows like The Gentlemen, which have seen it rise in popularity with the under-thirties. Others may consider tweed ill-fits their modern aesthetic, where technical sporting fabrics dominate their other activities and feel more naturally part of their wardrobe.
The great wit A. A. Gill once memorably wrote of the incongruity of dressing in the traditional trappings of the sporting field. His sentiment is not uncommon among a generation to whom tweed plus fours can conjure images of a class and age to which they feel little connection.
It must also be acknowledged that the ease of care, the lightness, the comfort and the technical excellence that modern fabrics and garment construction processes have imparted to outdoor clothing in recent years is remarkable.
Team this with Lyell trousers, which work casually with shoes, or tuck into wellies for the shooting, and the modern look is born; less fussy perhaps, more in-keeping with a more casual mind-set.
The Lyell wool fleece gilet is a perfect mid-section choice, or perhaps the padded Wens vest, for use on the peg, when the sport demands a cooler, more agile combination.
To dress these garments up to formal shoot day level, simply add a quality V-neck sweater, a check shirt and a stylish tie from the Westley Richards collection.
Some people are comfortable in either the traditional or the relaxed modes but feel best dressed in a modern equivalent of the formal look.
The Westley Richards Loden Collection for 2026 hits that spot perfectly. Taking a traditional Continental woollen fabric and crafting it into stylish, traditional English shooting attire with a modern edge and cut has created an interpretation of formal shooting wear that adds another dimension.
Consisting of breeks, trousers, and two styles of shooting vest or gilet, it can be styled formally with the appropriate choice of socks, tie and check shirt or made more ruggedly handsome by combining it with an adventure or safari styled shirt and perhaps a cravat or plain tie. Whatever the look, Westley Richards has the combinations with which to experiment.
By selecting Westley Richards as your outfitter you are guaranteed the best in terms of design, style and quality, whatever option your tastes dictate. Quality never goes out of fashion and all our pieces are intended to last and perform like no other.
Walking into that shoot room for the first bacon sandwich and perhaps a shot of sloe gin as pegs are drawn, your fellow sportsmen will quietly acknowledge that rare quality and style which your Westley Richards garments gently signal.
Once in the elements and pursuing your passion, those same garments will fall effortlessly to the task for which they were created. You will stop noticing them, which is the mark of all truly effective sporting equipment.
It becomes about you, the elements and your sport. They play their part by remaining silent and going unnoticed.
Whatever your style, Westley Richards has you covered this shooting season.
Alongside its bespoke guns, luxury travel bags and high quality safari clothes, the modern Westley Richards continues a 200-year tradition of outfitting sportsmen and travellers for time well spent in the field. Whether preparing for the Glorious Twelfth, checking into a country house hotel or simply demanding the best shooting kit available, Westley Richards provides the finest outdoor classics. Their luxurious country clothing collection includes a range of house shooting tweeds complimented with an exclusive selection of American and European brand partners, including Habsburg, Meindl, Grenfell, Gitman Vintage and Filson.
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