Update on the Blue JacShirts
(no name) ((no email))
Fri, 8 Jan 1999 03:00:32 -0600
Hi Scouters!
Just wanted to give a quick update on the blue JacShirts which
Woolrich did make for the BSA.
I've called twice now to Woolrich to talk with the folks that
handle the BSA's account and seeing about the jac-shirts. So far, I
haven't recieved an answer back but here's what I do know:
First, Woolrich makes the jac-shirt exclusively for the BSA. This
means that nobody else can purchase the red jacshirt in the BSA's
design but BSA members (as it should be, the BSA paid a lot of
money for those special jackets)!!
Second, Woolrich WILL make a special order, but we'll all have to
get our friends, neighbors and people we don't even know together
to do so; their MINIMUM order is 600 pieces (no, I didn't
overstrike; that's six HUNDRED pieces) in various sizes.
Third, the BSA nor Woolrich has any of those nice dark blue
jac-shirts left in a "back room" someplace, either in Charotte nor
in PA where the Woolrich headquarters and main mill's located; they
would all have to be made "from scratch."
Fourth, they do NOT make the jac-shirt in MacLaren tartan colors
nor in "International Scouting purple." They CAN do so, but again,
you'll have purchase an extremely large number from them to make it
worth their while.
Finally, the folks I've been talking with is trying to fish out the
old BSA order, which has the shade of the jac-shirt and other
particulars, in order to see if it can still be done. Keep your
fingers crossed!
The cost, I've been told, will be comparable to the BSA's retail
price of the jac-shirts.
Now:
*Since this is NOT an official BSA item, this means that ANYONE
with money can order one and have it; also since it is no longer a
BSA "stock item", I can't tell you how to place insignia on it *but
I would tend to say that if you're going to wear it in the place of
the BSA standard Scouting Red jacshirt, then perhaps you can wear
your insignia in the same places.
*folks have been wanting a special "Scouts-L patch" to wear; this
would be (in *my* thinking, anyways) the "ultimate "patch"":
untradable, personalized, and a nice display of your support of the
online community (do I sound like I'm begging here?? *hehehehehee*)
*Is this still worth pursuing. I want one of those jacshirts
really, really bad, but at the same time 600 jacshirts is a lot of
material....unless of course, we get a WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE to
commit to buying one.
*does anyone know who makes the nylon jackets for the BSA??
Perhaps the lighter-weight nylon would be cheaper all the way
around...and perhaps we won't get stuck with having to order 600 of
them!
Please post me PRIVATELY if you're interested; but if you have
comments or questions that would be better "heard" by everyone
here, by all means post to the list!
I'll followup again tommorrow (Friday) as I'm supposed to followup
with Kara and Christine tomorrow.
Settummanque!
(c) 1998 Mike Walton ("no such thing as strong coffee,...") blkeagle@mninter.net
http://mninter.net/~blkeagle Burnsville, MN 55306-7130 (612) 435-3085
privately at kyblkeagle@aol.com or waltonm@server.kaiserslautern.army.mil
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