Tesco - Men's cashmere jumpers £30

thesheephair

try costco, they sell them for around £40, if its crap, you can take it back

Redbedhead

odowdchr wrote:

Incidentally, the market is flooded with these sweaters now.
They're exactly the same as the sweaters you get in India and they seem to have got big export deals with every big British clothing company, hence the drop in price.

H and I were talking about this. We think Tesco have probably reduced the jumpers in response to Asda offering a cashmere jumper for £30.

Jazzy_B

xadoc wrote:

Quit kit?

You can pick up envelopes in store to help you stop smoking. They've got vouchers in for clothes, toiletries, etc, and are worth picking up. There's £6 off a £30 clothing spend.

Redbedhead

Jazzy_B wrote:

You can pick up envelopes in store to help you stop smoking. They've got vouchers in for clothes, toiletries, etc, and are worth picking up. There's £6 off a £30 clothing spend.

Thanks - I hadn't heard of that. Will look next time I am in there.

glitter_2

hi I bought 3 of the ladies cashmere jumpers nad have worn and washed them loads. Mine also went bobbly and I took them back and was given a full refund, the lady at customer services said they had other people returning them for the same reasons. HTH.

hurdy

Its a year old report, but there is a lot of suspicion as to how much cashmere Tesco actually put into their knitwear, which would explain the price!

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16251449&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=the-100--cashmere-sweater-from-tesco---made-with-camel-and-rabbit-hair-name_page.html

anewman

i noticed gap has some for about £35 (I think) in various colours but the quality looks a bit suspect compared to ones they have sold in the past.

odowdchr

hurdy wrote:

Its a year old report, but there is a lot of suspicion as to how much cashmere Tesco actually put into their knitwear, which would explain the price!

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16251449&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=the-100--cashmere-sweater-from-tesco---made-with-camel-and-rabbit-hair-name_page.html

Norman Ng, director of Hong Kong Sales, which produces Tesco's cashmere sweater, said the company had made cashmere for Karen Millen, Whistles and Next. He went on: "The garments we make for Tesco use the quality assurance processes that we use for all our other customers and the quality is of the same high standard."

Seems to tally then....
One thing i asked at a Cashmere factory in India was why the different colours feel different to each other. They spun me a line about different colours requiring different dye stabilisers so some sweaters are "harder". Might be true, might not...but some colours definitely feel softer than others so it's worth doing a touch test in the shop before buying online..