Fruit Of The Loom T-Shirts

[RSB]

Cheaper than usual at Amazon £2.62 Link

Americans: Over Sexed, Over Payed and Over here, Wat Wat!

[PlaneMan]

I haven’t seen any for a while (maybe 3 years) but the last lot I looked at were rubbish quality. Granted these are very cheap and might be worth a punt if you just want some stuff for gardening or something like that.

[Richard]

Back in the early 1970s FotL stuff used to be very good quality, but then it went off. The last I heard it was no longer the same outfit at all. Have they now recovered or found new owners to restore  things to the quality level they once had? The price you quote appears below bargain basement levels.

[The Duke]

I got a load off eBay about 5 years ago. Was then still fully cotton. Which is a must for me. I still like like FofL

[tadka]

When I buy white t-shirts (for work mostly as an underlayer) I look for durable looking cotton fabric and most last me years. But once (maybe 3 years ago) I bought a few FofL t-shirts because they were cheap and I’d seen the brand name many times. They were some of the worst t-shirts I’ve had. They shrunk and deformed after the first wash. Just used them for rags.

[Bob Williams]

I started using Dickies T-shirts and Polo’s, after a tip here (Dave Rice?) and have loads of them. Same price always for a bundle of “cheapos” often cheaper than those in Lee’s link. If they last a year each for one from a bundle, I’ll be happy. The better ones are thicker, much better quality, mostly cotton and are standing up to my ironing, which means they will be hard wearing. Supposed to be workwear, but are smart looking and the necks don’t sag, which is not true of the last M&S and FotL ones I bought a couple of years ago. I buy XL to cover the bulge of my parastomal hernia, which after losing 2 stone + is more noticeable. I get tired of explaining it is not a beergut and the explanation to some interfering goboffs, can make them ill. Preferably.

I am also getting fed up with buying new trousers, after dropping 2x waist sizes and 2x inside leg sizes (spinal problem). About to sell 6x pairs of High Waist 40″ Waist, 29″ leg trousers, all on local FB. 36″W & 27″ now fit, although still a bit baggy because of High Waist.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Bob Williams]

While on the subject of clothes: I bought a really nice all weather jacket on Sale at M&S, reduced to £49 from £95. This is what I found when I got home, why was I not stopped at the store exit? Could have saved £49 there, and some hassle removing the anti theft device, I will never make a shoplifter! Pic:

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[RSB]

Seriously, For £2.63 I really don’t expect that much lol. Wash them a couple of times to go out in and by that time I would of ruined them any how in the garden or some other general D.I.Y.

Saying that I still have a couple from last time round and apart from holes I have put in them the material is still strong. If they do shrink a bit I just re-stretch them while ironing them.

Americans: Over Sexed, Over Payed and Over here, Wat Wat!

[PlaneMan]

Security tags left on happens all the time Bob, the detectors are about 30% reliable.  They are more for show than anything else.

When I worked at C&A we had to test the detectors every morning. They never worked properly. In the end we never bothered actually checking them, just pretended so the customers would think they were working.

[The Duke]

Got my girl a river island coat for her birthday last year, while she was in the dressing room trying on far too many coats, she pocked a discarded security tag.

She set off evey alarm we walked though for a month. It wasn’t until I washed it that we found it, and all them alarms made sense.

It does show up one flaw in the system, we never got stopped once. Always just waved through.

[PlaneMan]

That’s the exception right there. The tags are mostly non-working. The ones that do work will trigger everything.

I had a stash of about 5 known working tags that I had on my person when waving random garments through the scanners, that’s how we ‘checked’ the system.

[The Duke]

I bet if I looked like a druggie or a tramp (some would say I border on the latter), we would of been stopped every time one went off.

I bet there is many people, Especially good looking women, that make a good living out of shop lifting.

I neither look good or am a female, so I’ll stick to my current set up.

Importing Chinese 50 pences.

[Dave Rice]

Yes Bob it was me. Dickies work wear every time. You get yourself on the mailing list and buy when the items you want come up.

The quality is superb, you can’t have work wear falling apart. When they say something is waterproof it absolutely is. I’ve got one of the winter jackets, far better than anything else I’ve bought as is the footwear.

[Richard]

Several years ago my wife bought some shorts for me. By the end of the summer they were little better than cleaning rags. I then bought a couple of pairs of Dickies shorts, they are now on their third year and still going strong, I generally wear them turn and turn about from about the end of March through October. Strong, comfortable and with enough pockets in good places they have proved ideal. If they can do it, why cannot other places get things right?

[Bob Williams]

Dave, thanks again for that. Yes, I am on the mailing list and thanks to Richard‘s words about shorts, I am going to order a couple of pairs. Out of the 4 pairs of shorts I have possessed for about 10 years, only one pair does not fall down when I put them on, mainly because they are a lot more than 10 years old and I keep them because they were my running shorts. They are absolutely shot, must be about 35 years old and my missus turns up her nose even when I am just going into the garden in them. That’s what losing 2+ stones in weight, inside 3 months, can do. I can get both arms inside the shorts and trousers, while wearing them!

Just found a great High Waist store Richard. White Rose Clothing, got my first pair today and they fitted perfectly:

http://tinyurl.com/y7r8rxyd

They are described as Ostomy clothing, but don’t let that put you off. The trousers are better made than my previous store, Chums, unless you buy the premium price Chums stuff, which is more expensive that the trousers I just bought from White Rose.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[The Duke]

I was caout out years ago helping on a friend’s roof, so I grabbed myself a dickies black box style coat for, £40, still have it and it’s lasted many winters of dog walking.pronaly the best coat I’ve owned.

And I’ve had a fair few of top end burghaus’s I’ve managed to out grow. Currently have 3. But I’ll still grab the dickies one more often than not. Even though one of the burgs I bought is the identical shape as the dickies. It seems to fit better.

To be fair to BH they are designed for differnt purposes. I love my paklight, but it’s just a glorified wind stopper. That folds up to fit in your pocket. My older burg the velcro went on the cuffes after 10 plus years and the box jacket, just isn’t what BH do. So that’s a bit of a fail. My mera peak I loved, as did my lad once I out grew it. As did my second one!

I had a pair of dickies jeans that looked sort of trouser cut in the late 90s, they was expensive, but I soon out gew them. No they was dockers. Scrap that. Bought them and a pair of rock port, just so I could stay out on The ale! Still have the rock port. And a pair I’d got two years earlier. Both way over 20 years. And look new. (well one pair is fill of paint. But would polish up.

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