Blue Jacshirt Update
(no name) ((no email))
Thu, 21 Jan 1999 02:59:49 -0600
(In advance, I apologize for the crossposting; however, you will
see that the topic has relevance to both groups. Some of you will
also get a third posting, as I've "grouped" those individuals whom
have wrote me privately asking for more information about the
topic. Thank you all for your understanding!)
Hi Scouters!!
I have some great news and some news in which I hope some of you
can PLEASE HELP ME AND WOOLRICH with!
To quickly summarize: The BSA developed both its traditional red
jacshirt as well as a blue jacshirt (for Explorers and Cub
Scouters). The BSA decided that the blue jacshirt should go away in
the middle 70s (Woolrich says 76; my own BSA catalogs say 78).
Thanks to those Scouters that wrote to me and to Woolrich asking
them to make the blue jacshirt available, they are willing to do
so. There's the BIG NEWS. The jacshirt would be available to
Scouters willing to pay $75 a piece for them, which I understand is
the price they "charge" to the BSA for the red ones. Same design,
same pockets, same everything...but in BLUE.
But there's a problem: NOBODY there can find any information about
the shade of color used for the blue jacshirts, and it took Liz a
week and a half to track down the old BSA orders (which doesn't
have the swatches attached).
So:
*does ANYONE out there have a made for BSA jacshirt in BLUE that
they would be willing to send to Liz Everett at Woolrich for a week
or so to get the "color down pat"?
If you do (size does NOT matter, and the jacshirt WILL be returned
to you intact!!), PLEASE POST ME PRIVATELY and let me know as soon
as possible. Once they have the color down, and a confirmation
from me (and the Ships' Store and Scouter.com, if they are still
willing to "come into this"), then they start work on our 600
jacshirts in that blue color.
Scouters, get your pennies together...we need to have cash-on-hand
for 600 of these jacshirts. You DO NOT NEED TO BE A BSA MEMBER to
own one of these jacshirts (since they will NOT carry the BSA's
seal inside the jacshirt, thereby making the item an official BSA
stocked item!), so if you're interested but think that you MUST be
a BSA member or leader to purchase one, think again!
I'll post a FINAL note as to where to send money to, and when to
expect shipment of what I'm calling the "Internet Scouter" jacshirt
(Liz stated it would be roughly two months after we get the color
down and the order confirmed...)
A THANK YOU to Liz Everett and the rest of the Special Order team
at Woolrich for their assistance and their hard work in tracking
down this special item for us all!!
Again, sorry for the crossposting; I'm hoping that someone either
on Scouts-L or Patch-L would have one of these around in their
closet, warehouse, attic, or storage building. I *do* have a "Plan
B", but I and they would rather have the source color!
Thanks, all!
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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