{"id":205,"date":"2009-10-25T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/2009\/10\/25\/a-tale-of-two-cloth-merchants\/"},"modified":"2009-10-25T09:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T13:11:00","slug":"a-tale-of-two-cloth-merchants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/a-tale-of-two-cloth-merchants\/","title":{"rendered":"A tale of two cloth merchants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fun thing about blogging- I get to rant every once in a while. Well, rant and praise.<\/p>\n

I have been flirting with English cloth for a little while, with some interesting results. Since I don’t buy significant quantities of it (I buy Italian usually) I am going through an agent who represents a number of English mills. I bought a piece of flannel from his own stock- a charcoal flannel from J & J Minnis; Minnis is one of the stable of mills, including John Hardy, which come under the umbrella of Huddersfield Fine Worsteds, and has a very good reputation, as well as a few royal warrants. The suit made up nicely and I should really get around to posting some photos. Before cutting I asked Andrew (the agent) about sponging and he asked the mill; the mill had previously given a rather snarky answer to another person on the same subject but I let that one go. However the mill never did answer me. <\/p>\n

Encouraged by the results of the suit (but not the service), I found another lovely swatch from John Hardy (HFW again) and placed an order. Temporarily out of stock. Well, these things happen. Since this is a winter-only swatch, I asked when they though the cloth might be back in stock- if it were only to come available in January or February, I would pick something else. A week went by with no response from the mill. I would have liked a simple- we are a little busy moving or getting our nails done or whatever and we will answer you shortly, but nothing.<\/p>\n

So I picked another swatch from another English mill, Harrisons of Edinburg<\/a>h. The navy suit with the pink stripe and the pagoda shoulder is Harrisons cloth. A Sunday afternoon I picked the swatch, with a few trouser lengths as well, and put an email in to Andrew. Monday I had a response that one of the numbers was out of stock so I gave them instructions on what to do. This would have been Monday afternoon in the UK. An hour later I had a tracking number but they could have just taken the number off a shipping label so I didn’t think much of it. But no, Wednesday I got a parcel with my cloth (I remind readers that I am in Canada). Within an hour of receiving instructions my parcel was shipped, and HFW still hasn’t answered any of my questions.<\/p>\n

I have to say that the Minnis flannel makes up better than the Harrisons flannel. So next time I am in the market for some flannel will I buy Minnis or Hardy? NO WAY. It’s Harrisons for me. I would even pay a premium for it, just for the service.<\/p>\n

Sadly, Andrew is stopping his business soon so if you are interested in some nice, sturdy English cloth, I STRONGLY recommend you look through his stuff.<\/a> And buy Harrisons, not HFW.<\/p>\n

Rant over.<\/p>\n

Soon the next suit will be finished and I will get some photos of both of them up. Doing a last fitting on the Harrisons flannel and I don’t have good mirrors at home so I resort to taking photos from different angles- I wasn’t able to spot the pulling at the waist until I took a photo. I’ll fix that before finishing completely.<\/p>\n

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