It is what it is. Between it and the puppet march on Saturday, last weekend was like some kind of goddamned hipster apocalypse.

Yesterday, the third annual autumn gathering of the District’s dandiest tweed aficionados — now numbering around 900 strong — took over the streets of Washington.

The annual Tweed Ride, in which people outfit themselves in their dandiest suits and most charming quaintrelle fashions, rode through the District yesterday. Plenty of our Flickr contributors took to the streets to capture Washington, partying like it’s 1929 before heading to the gin joint du jour.

As I alluded to in my morning post, many fine lads and lasses, dressed in their tweediest fineness, are riding through our fair city on this wonderful fall day. So, yeah, that’s who you saw riding through Lincoln Park in Capitol Hill, through Eastern Market, and on their way to Adams Morgan. Stroga will be hosting the afterparty, “Betweed You & Me” which benefits Arts for the Aging ($30) will feature cocktails made from Hendricks…

A PUBLIC NOTICE REGARDING THE VELOCIPEDE ASSEMBLY IN OUR NATION’S CAPITAL Scores of well-met journeymen and women gathered yesterday in the northeast of the Capital city for an expedition to celebrate the latest in fashion, industry and whimsy. This peregrination saw fashionable fellows and dandizettes tour the city by bi-cycle and fixed-gear machine. A good time was had by all! Some 200 riders gathered at H Street in the Northeast for an Indian-summer afternoon traipse…

When in late September the Post all but announced the death of the fixed-gear bicycle fad with a 1,700-word primer on single-speeds, we wondered what would come next. Now we’ve got our answer — the Tweed Ride. Last week, the District’s first ever Tweed Ride was announced. Scheduled for Sunday, November 15, the ride will see cyclists ditch the spandex and carbon frames and instead don foppish early-1900s era apparel while atop vintage cruisers….