This article explores the topic of tweed cloth as a menswear textile in the late nineteenth century with the aim of expanding the consideration of the relationships between fashion in modernity and rural and urban landscapes. The article does not contest the idea that modern fashion is predominantly an urban phenomenon. However, by analyzing a fashion textile produced within a rural context it aims to complexify the assumption that late nineteenth century fashion may be understood simply in the one-dimensional sense of being related to the urban. Examining the history of tweed as an ephemeral fashion textile within the context of recent literature from cultural geography, empire studies, and gender studies presents interesting new perspectives about the relationships between fashion in modernity and urban and rural landscapes. The article argues the design of tweed constituted a blending, or intermingling of the dynamics of fashion and urban sartorial tastes and lifestyles, with rural environments and contexts. It thus eloquently epitomizes the dual role of fashion within modernity as encapsulating the transitory and thesublime (Lehmann 2000).