TBA Event Info

2026 Tweed Ride Baltimore will wrap up its tweedy shenanigans with a vintage-style bash at the classic Baltimore Streetcar Museum. Lauren Muney of Silhouettes By Hand is planning to sell her services for the festive and well-dressed participants.

What’s a Tweed Ride, you ask? Here’s a sample from an archived DC-area event (article ca. 2018):

“…hundreds of people will lace up their Oxfords, button their waistcoats, and come together for a bike ride around the city. The cause, of course, is the DC Tweed Ride… Newsboy hats and pocket-watches are welcome here. A curled mustache would hardly be out of place… When DC Tweed Ride [founder] Eric Channing Brewer launched the Tweed Ride in the fall of 2009, he’d already been a longtime cyclist—but “mostly in the way of racing around in Lycra.” He saw photos from a tweed ride in London and grew inspired to recreate it; the event spoke to his own nostalgia for the style and grace of earlier eras. Before long, Brewer was researching dandyism, collecting vintage clothing, and spreading word of a tweed ride to take place in D.C. “I saw it as a way to not only introduce a ride or singular event, but an idea of lifestyle,” Brewer says. He began a new social group, the Dandies and Quaintrelles, to put a face and mission behind the inaugural ride. The group’s motto? “Redemption Through Style.” Dandies and Quaintrelles hosts other vintage-inspired events throughout the year….” (source: https://dcist.com/story/18/10/31/the-dc-tweed-ride-celebrates-10-years-of-a-tradition-thats-just-dandy/)