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The shetlands you guys have posted look beautiful. Still, I need to get my cashmere fix.
The shetlands you guys have posted look beautiful. Still, I need to get my cashmere fix.
I hope you are not as underwhelmed with cashmere as I was. Granted, I din't get the primo stuff, but still.
Where do you plan to source the cashmere sweaters from? Have you identified the sources yet?
Well, I already have decent cashmere, and can imagine how it could be better based on my experience and what others describe. Mainly, I want smething that is soft and smooth, but avoids pilling and stretching.
You have to look very hard ... preferably NOS. I'll wait and watch what you get.But for now, I am totally off cashmere.
Did you say what you thought of Lockie, Johnstons, and the like?
Well, I already have decent cashmere, and can imagine how it could be better based on my experience and what others describe. Mainly, I want smething that is soft and smooth, but avoids pilling and stretching.
I imagine $300 a sweater will be tough,given your specs.
Did you say what you thought of Lockie, Johnstons, and the like?
RJman and I have recent experience with Johnston's, and it's not good. In fact they and Ballantyne are the two Scottish companies I've been most disappointed with recently. The sweaters I've seen have been much thinner, cheaper looking and knit with a slightly higher gauge (smaller knit) than traditional Scottish cashmere.
From my casual research, it appears that American retailers tend to favor Johnstons quite regularly while UK-based retailers tend to prefer others (Lockie has come up a lot).
I keep hoping that somewhere, in one of these too-numerous and too-similar discussions, someone who knows what traditional Scottish cashmere is supposed to look like and has recent buying experience with labeled products from Lockie, Murray Allen (if they're still around), N. Peal, even old standards like Pringle etc will chime in and let us know. Until then, all we have to work on are conflicting marketing claims (e.g. Johnston's is claiming they're the only Scottish company who's still processing from raw fiber, which apparently isn't true) and companies telling us half the story about what yarns they're using.