Tauz's hopsack blazer (£980); a look from Thom Browne's spring/summer 2011 collection; the Lionel Henderson black seer suit (£650) from Aquascutum's London collection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Menswear's Formal Acceptance] Reference

I cut the collar off a pink hopsack suit, shortened the sleeves, bought three huge buttons and sewed them on the jacket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

John Bull, that his coin may not corrode for want of circulation; if ever this fellow enters my house again, with his deer-stealing Stratford vagabond under his arm, tie them both up in a hopsack, and throw them into the Thames!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810] Reference