Brooks Brothers christmas sale

[gnatty8]

Originally Posted by forex

Orders pushed back to mid february,this is ridiculous. I have 6 more shirts and a pair of cordovan wings on backorder. I have a feeling that I will not get them at all.

dude, you still have not gotten these? I must have just lucked out..

 

[forex]

Originally Posted by gnatty8

dude, you still have not gotten these? I must have just lucked out..

Yes,you did. Didn't you say that you got 11D and they were too big for you?That is my size

 

[gnatty8]

Originally Posted by forex

Yes,you did. Didn't you say that you got 11D and they were too big for you?That is my size

PMed

 

[zippyh]

A couple days before Xmas I got a call from BBs. They wanted to know if I still wanted some shirts that I had ordered in September. I had almost forgotten I had even ordered them. I was kind of pissed because when I ordered them in September they had showed as "in stock". I ended up cancelling.

 

[Steven Aver]

Originally Posted by Spatlese

I just don't wanna be left out of the sleeves-and-body-too short-but-otherwise-these-are-terrific OCBD discussions much longer

Your sleeves and shirt length should be fine, as the sale items have the "Autumn" label on the shirt tag. The earlier versions with a blank tag were much shorter.

 

[boo]

I picked up a few of the non-iron shirts during the sale. Is it just me, or is their non-iron fabric much softer now than it used to be?

 

[stamp0102]

Boo-
I also noticed on some of the shirts the fabric is much softer than in previous seasons. I have 10 of their slim fit shirts and the few from previous seasons seem to be heavier/courser. I am much happier with the quality of the newer fabric, I just hope it holds up.

 

[grimslade]

Originally Posted by boo

I picked up a few of the non-iron shirts during the sale. Is it just me, or is their non-iron fabric much softer now than it used to be?

It depends on the fabric itself. I have some non-iron luxury-line shirts that have a really nice hand. The non-iron baseline shirts that I've seen have all been nasty.

 

[alliswell]

Originally Posted by stamp0102

Boo-
I also noticed on some of the shirts the fabric is much softer than in previous seasons. I have 10 of their slim fit shirts and the few from previous seasons seem to be heavier/courser. I am much happier with the quality of the newer fabric, I just hope it holds up.

How hard was it before? I bought a non-iron OCBD just before Christmas that would turn a knife.

 

[boo]

Originally Posted by grimslade

It depends on the fabric itself. I have some non-iron luxury-line shirts that have a really nice hand. The non-iron baseline shirts that I've seen have all been nasty.

My experience has been with the blue-tagged non-luxury slim fits.

Originally Posted by letmebefell

How hard was it before? I bought a non-iron OCBD just before Christmas that would turn a knife.

I found the difference to be very noticeable. Different enough that on my latest batch, I was practically wondering if the factory had forgotten to apply a non-iron coating to the fabric. I'm not saying that they'd be mistaken for 200s Alumo/Mason fabric, but I was just pleasantly surprised.

 

[wmmk]

Originally Posted by Spatlese

I just don't wanna be left out of the sleeves-and-body-too short-but-otherwise-these-are-terrific OCBD discussions much longer

Argh. Thom Browne, if you acknowledged the existence of arms on people whose torsos are accomodated by a BB0, I wouldn't have to waste all of my cash money on Band of Outsiders OCBD's. For the loss.

 

[Ataturk]

The feel of the fabric depends on the weave. Pinpoint is rough; broadcloth is soft.

For some reason most of the solid-colored BB'ers non-irons are pinpoint. Most of the patterns are broadcloth.

 

[bigbjorn]

My size 9.5D cordovan longwings showed up. I was surprised.

 

[JayJay]

Originally Posted by bigbjorn

My size 9.5D cordovan longwings showed up. I was surprised.
Enjoy!

 

[forex]

Great,they canceled my order for 6 shirts and a pair of longwings.