made in china for three fiddy, and made in portugal for € 3
Handmade in Devon, China.
And owned by Mike Ashley of Sports Direct
Not sure about fabulously British but 100% quintessentially modern British. Harking to the past but lacking the industrial base to make it anything other than branding.
I used to work at the Boots next door to the Jack Wills in Salcombe. I’d go in there on my lunch breaks if I was bored. They had a lot of products on high shelves, so I always ended up being asked by other customers to grab products for them. It didn’t seem to matter that my uniform was very obviously for a different shop. I do recognise that this is unrelated – I’m just having flashbacks
I agree with the sentiment but China do have some good manufacturers these days, also some terrible ones.
Garment production in this country is pretty much obsolete unfortunately. ( Yes I know that there are still some but compared to pre 2000 it’s minimal)
Irony at a low temperatury otherwise it could shrinky
Not really irony as it clearly states designed in London, England.
LOL
You can get a British wool jumper made in Britain for a lot less money and much better made.
Superdry is the funniest
**Spirit of Japan!**
Designed in Britain
^Made ^in ^China
There used to be a Jack Wills shop near the main campus at Bristol Uni and around 2010 you’d see queues outside that place like they were giving out winning lottery tickets. The absolute hold they had over middle class students was insane
Then you find it’s sold at Jack Wills Outlet at Bicester Shopping Village, the second most visited place by Chinese tourists next to Buckingham Palace (apparently), so presumably finds its way back home, minus a little tax.
It’s a Sports Direct band now, I think.
How does a person go about “designing” a plain jumper?
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Fabulously Chinese.
made in china for three fiddy, and made in portugal for € 3
Handmade in Devon, China.
And owned by Mike Ashley of Sports Direct
Not sure about fabulously British but 100% quintessentially modern British. Harking to the past but lacking the industrial base to make it anything other than branding.
I used to work at the Boots next door to the Jack Wills in Salcombe. I’d go in there on my lunch breaks if I was bored. They had a lot of products on high shelves, so I always ended up being asked by other customers to grab products for them. It didn’t seem to matter that my uniform was very obviously for a different shop. I do recognise that this is unrelated – I’m just having flashbacks
I agree with the sentiment but China do have some good manufacturers these days, also some terrible ones.
Garment production in this country is pretty much obsolete unfortunately. ( Yes I know that there are still some but compared to pre 2000 it’s minimal)
Irony at a low temperatury otherwise it could shrinky
Not really irony as it clearly states designed in London, England.
LOL
You can get a British wool jumper made in Britain for a lot less money and much better made.
Superdry is the funniest
**Spirit of Japan!**
Designed in Britain
^Made ^in ^China
There used to be a Jack Wills shop near the main campus at Bristol Uni and around 2010 you’d see queues outside that place like they were giving out winning lottery tickets. The absolute hold they had over middle class students was insane
Then you find it’s sold at Jack Wills Outlet at Bicester Shopping Village, the second most visited place by Chinese tourists next to Buckingham Palace (apparently), so presumably finds its way back home, minus a little tax.
It’s a Sports Direct band now, I think.
How does a person go about “designing” a plain jumper?