Hickey by Hickey Freeman on Gilt, $400... worth it? - Page 3

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Originally Posted by StockwellDay 

I know your question was about Hickey, but I thought this was relevant: I bought some HF suits off Gilt a few months ago and returned them all. They were not HF and looked to made for Gilt (as many of their items are these days) to a lower quality than standard HF (easily ID'd as having no model name on tag) . I was unimpressed.

YMMV.

Perhaps they were "Hickey" (also called "Hickey Style") suits.  The Hickey line is a discontinued line, but gilt still sells them.  They are fused, and yes-lower quality than regular Hickey Freeman lines.  Of course, if you're sure that they weren't from the Hickey line, then this is good information-even if disconcerting.
 

It may be that some Hickey suits are canvassed, but the ones I've come across have not been canvassed.  I once ordered two Hickey suits from Gilt, and the pinch test told me that they were fused.  I returned one suit because while it was supposedly "worsted wool", it wasn't worsted very well (the fabric was fluffy and rough).  The other suit I brought to Nick Lopez's tailor shop in Houston, and one of the tailors cut it open while I watched and showed me that it was, indeed, fused. 

You could always take a gamble on the Bluefly suit, and just return it and complain if it's actually fused.