Minnis Rangoon?

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Concordia
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Wed Jun 18, 2008 3:26 pm

I notice that the Rangoon bunch is no longer on Minnis' website.

Given that they did some housecleaning in the Dorchester collection, is it possible that they have yanked Rangoon from circulation?
manton
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Wed Jun 18, 2008 4:10 pm

Yes, it's gone for good. THey are never going to re-run it. Silly of them.

I bought a piece to save. Only one though. Very abstemious of me.
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Fri Aug 22, 2008 2:04 pm

I recently had a good experience with Minnis.

The Rangoon is still available in various lengths.

Contact Minnis for further information.
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Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:52 pm

I have a light-weight, very dark blue summer weight blue suit in Rangoon from Anderson and Sheppard. Ordered an extra pair of trousers with it, thankfully. It's by far my most-traveled, hardest-wearing suit. I've taken it to India and China many times and worn it in the hottest North-East weather and still looked elegant.
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Thu Sep 04, 2008 5:51 pm

jpontin wrote:I have a light-weight, very dark blue summer weight blue suit in Rangoon from Anderson and Sheppard. Ordered an extra pair of trousers with it, thankfully. It's by far my most-traveled, hardest-wearing suit. I've taken it to India and China many times and worn it in the hottest North-East weather and still looked elegant.
Is that the blue pin dot shown here?

http://www.hfw-huddersfield.co.uk/hardy ... 949973368?

I bought five metres of it at £16 plus VAT a metre - a bargain!
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Thu Sep 04, 2008 6:03 pm

Winot wrote:. . . . I bought five metres of it at £16 plus VAT a metre - a bargain!
Quite a saving, Winot! Would you share your source?
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Thu Sep 04, 2008 8:05 pm

RWS wrote:
Winot wrote:. . . . I bought five metres of it at £16 plus VAT a metre - a bargain!
Quite a saving, Winot! Would you share your source?
RWS - direct from Minnis! The link is still on their website - see below:

http://www.hfw-huddersfield.co.uk/hardy ... offers.asp
jpontin
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Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:43 pm

Winot wrote:
jpontin wrote:I have a light-weight, very dark blue summer weight blue suit in Rangoon from Anderson and Sheppard. Ordered an extra pair of trousers with it, thankfully. It's by far my most-traveled, hardest-wearing suit. I've taken it to India and China many times and worn it in the hottest North-East weather and still looked elegant.
Is that the blue pin dot shown here?

http://www.hfw-huddersfield.co.uk/hardy ... 949973368?

I bought five metres of it at £16 plus VAT a metre - a bargain!
Yes, that's the one! Today will be 80 degrees in Boston, so I am wearing the A&S with a white T&A bespoke shirt and a grey, silk knit tie. I have been told twice how well I look.

I encourage any one who lives, or has to travel, to warm climates to buy some Ragoon fabric. For my money, it's makes up into a more elegant suit than Fresco.
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Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:08 pm

Gentlemen:

Does anyone by any chance have any photographic samples of any of the following from the Rangoon collection that more truly show the color of the cloth than the (less than ideal) photos on the Minnis website? I would greatly appreciate seeing any such samples.

0106: http://www.hfw-huddersfield.co.uk/hardy ... =407648569?

0110: http://www.hfw-huddersfield.co.uk/hardy ... =232564372?

0111: http://www.hfw-huddersfield.co.uk/hardy ... =388825524?

0115: http://www.hfw-huddersfield.co.uk/hardy ... =793317824?

0123: http://www.hfw-huddersfield.co.uk/hardy ... =907594626?

0129: http://www.hfw-huddersfield.co.uk/hardy ... =988928108?

Thanks in advance for any assistance anyone might be able to provide.

-gabe
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Thu Sep 11, 2008 10:31 pm

Sorry, but the only source I have for cloth sample photographs is the merchants' sites and I find that J.G. Hardy/ J. & J. Minnis are the ones who show the most and the largest pictures.

I only wish that H.Lesser and Smith Woollens, among others, showed more of their wares. (Nudge, nudge....)

Frog in Suit
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Thu Sep 11, 2008 11:34 pm

Frog in Suit wrote:Sorry, but the only source I have for cloth sample photographs is the merchants' sites and I find that J.G. Hardy/ J. & J. Minnis are the ones who show the most and the largest pictures.

I only wish that H.Lesser and Smith Woollens, among others, showed more of their wares. (Nudge, nudge....)

Frog in Suit
I agree it's a nice feature that others ought adopt -- I just wish the Minnis photos were a bit more true to life. They are so dark!
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Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:59 am

I'm considering pulling the trigger on 4 metres of the 'dog tooth check'. I emailed them last night and received a prompt reply; they have it in stock but unfortunately shipping to the end of the Earth is going to cost a pretty penny.
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Fri Sep 12, 2008 1:33 am

pvpatty wrote:I'm considering pulling the trigger on 4 metres of the 'dog tooth check'.
that one caught my eye as well. I'm still disappointed, though, that there's less than 4 meters left of the blue pin dot and the blue/black glen check. the pin dot in particular was quite fetching.
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Fri Sep 12, 2008 1:58 am

gherrmann wrote:
pvpatty wrote:I'm considering pulling the trigger on 4 metres of the 'dog tooth check'.
that one caught my eye as well. I'm still disappointed, though, that there's less than 4 meters left of the blue pin dot and the blue/black glen check. the pin dot in particular was quite fetching.
Well you should be in luck with the dog tooth, my email revealed that:
The Rangoon cloth ‘dog tooth check’ is 0136 we have 69m + 26m in stock at the moment.
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Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:05 pm

gherrmann wrote: that one caught my eye as well. I'm still disappointed, though, that there's less than 4 meters left of the blue pin dot and the blue/black glen check. the pin dot in particular was quite fetching.
Those two were the only ones that looked especially worth the risk of the enterprise.
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