OOTD: Miss Tweed

After all my talk about wearing a uniform to throw on in the morning, this morning I dressed up big time. The reason is I had someone to meet and somewhere to go, I was going to meet a blog friend who was visiting from Upstate NY and we were going to hit up as many stores as we could squeeze in in the few hours that she was in NY. She wanted to go to JCrew, Tory Burch and Hermes, no less, so I thought that deserved some ladylike outfit.
But the main reason why I wore what I wore is that I wanted to show her the Navy tweed jacket IRL, since she had expressed some interest in it but had never seen it.
I bought the suit (jacket and skirt) last week in store during the 25% off and you can get it online with 30% off (both the jacket and the skirt are a bit cheaper in store but not as much as to make you go crazy to find one in store as opposed to buy it online). I tought nothing of the jacket in itself but I LOVED it with the matching Postage stamp mini in navy tweed. I really don't know why the called this one "navy tweed", the main color is not navy but a cobalt blue bordering on purple. It is also much more sparkly IRL than what you can see on the website, the Lurex threads add a lot of shine. I would have been surprised by both the color and by the sparkle had I ordered it online without seeing it first. But of course I had the chance to see both the jacket and the skirts many times in store before buying them so no surprises here.
I am wearing a 0 in the jacket and a 2 in the skirt (the 0 is the smallest of my jacket sizes and I have been buying only 2 as of late, but I felt that I could go one down in this one, I actually like it fitted). It could be too much tweed for some of you, but I love it with the jacket closed. It is almost a "hookup", except that it is a suit:

I am wearing a cashmere shell under the jacket, which is the perfect layer to wear because it can be easily tucked in the skirt:

In my opinion the navy gros-grain ruins the jacket a bit, it looks cheaper when it is unbuttoned so I prefer to wear it closed (if you are very busty it might not work). I also tried the suit with a long sleeve shirt with a ruffled collar and liked it as well (a bit uptight maybe but I like the collar peeking out):

I wore the first outfit this morning (sans jewels) and got a lot of compliments (a lady even stopped me in the street to tell me how much she liked the suit). The only downside is that I was freezing, I didn't check the forecasts this morning (well, I never do) and yesterday it got warm during the day so I was kind of hoping that it would be the case too, but it was very cold. Oh well, one can suffer a little bit in the name of fashion.
Most importantly my friend and I had a great time and she got some great stuff at TB (an awesome pair of sunglasses) and JCrew. She comes to NY very rarely so it was a treat to spend some time with her and go shopping together.

Do you own a piece of the "navy tweed" collection? Do you like the skirt suit or is it too much tweed for your taste?