id much rather pay £95 for a well made limited run shirt to the specifications that I favour
to a mass produced "not bad" shirt, just my opinion mind

Don't get me wrong, I wasn't having a go.
Apologies if it came across that way.

Costs of £45 per shirt just go to show why the manufacturing industry has moved overseas. Sadly, those costs just are viable for a new business.

Still pissed that I didn't get that uni stripe ..

You pay for what you get and i own three Fcs and like them all.

If H had gone for a full cut Makers  clone i would have bought  far more but that's a personal choice as i am a makers nut.

Half decent is a pretty ambiguous term so I don't see how you can debate that one. 'Decent' is obviously positive and 'half' in this context is negative, so you can take it how you want.

Back in the day Brooks Makers shirts were really not that expensive, particularly considering they were world famous for quality and quite possibly even became a status symbol, albeit one that was affordable for many. Selling them at a decent price was a very democratic approach, from an era when capitalism was creating a vast quantity of high quality consumer goods. Only a few decades ago but it might as well be ancient history.

The Fitz look very nice, however as even in the boom years genuine ivy shirts were never particularly successful in the UK, it's unlikely they can find much favour all these years later. I just hope it had sufficient success whilst it lasted, and the proprietor can be tempted into further classic clothing adventures. Preferably something a bit harder to find such as decent trousers.

Last edited by Yuca (2015-02-23 10:48:14)

Cool, i'll hold my hands up I alerted Bop to it too, so i'll let you chaps duke it out.

Theres a sweet BB for me there too but also have to wait for payday - need to list some unworn things on the bay too, might go do that tonight.

Like many on this forum I'm sorry to hear that Henry has had to draw stumps and head back to the pavilion.  My green OCBD is one of my favourites, and I'm glad I snapped one up.  I congratulate him on his endeavours so far, and do hope that he doesn't give up the clothing game entirely.

I had a bad feeling that this would happen. In the UK people are only interested in cheap and nasty. The Ivy market is small. When is the last time that out in the real world you spotted a well dressed Ivy person? The average person doesn't care about quality or where a product is made so long as the correct logo is on display.