For a few hours, skin-tight lycra was out and newsboy caps, silk slips and parasols were very in. Hundreds turned out for this year’s third annual Tweed Ride organized by the DC-based social group Dandies and Quaintrelles. Dressed to the dime in their most elegant fall retro-fashions, bicyclists rode ten miles from Meridian Hill Park in Columbia Heights to Capitol Hill.
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