A Herbert Johnson question. Don't take offense, I'm just curious...

Posted by Shawnkara from spider-wd054.proxy.aol.com on February 21, 2001 at 05:43:12:

Because of the quality/accuracy issues with Wested, we have now seen the end of a long quest to achieve the perfect 'Raiders' jacket, aka 'Expedition'. The question: why do people keep going to HJ? From what I understand they have not been able to stock the exact 'Raiders' model for years, yet people keep going to them for the 'Raiders' hat. All you are getting is something 'close'. And I've read a lot of complaints here at Indyfan. So, why bother when Peters Bros can make any hat you want, in the USA, for a lot less cash? A lot of people keep pointing out the fact that the FS jacket is 100% accurate, AND made in the USA. The same is true of Peters Bros. With Wested people speak of long shipping time, inaccuracies, poor customer service, customs fees, misdirected orders, returned orders. From what I've read from a few here the problems with HJ are nearly parrallel (sp?). So, why hasn't the advent of Peters Bros shoved HJ loyalty into the gutter the way FS seems to be doing to Wested? As I said, I'm only curious....

Follow Ups:

• Originally I went for quality/authenticity Gregg 15:38:10 2/21/2001 (3)
  • My PB has NO taper to the crown (nm) Shawnkara 23:25:30 2/21/2001 (0)
  • Tapered crown? Fedora 18:08:50 2/21/2001 (1)
    • Q & A response Gregg 19:18:54 2/21/2001 (0)
• Collectors VS Fans Hoth 13:20:51 2/21/2001 (3)
  • Agreed with, but on one point Michaelson 13:35:30 2/21/2001 (2)
    • Re: Agreed with, but on one point Hoth 13:54:46 2/21/2001 (1)
      • Excellent points! (nm) Michaelson 15:53:40 2/21/2001 (0)
• Re: A Herbert Johnson question. Don't take offense, I'm just curious... Indy Sean 07:18:15 2/21/2001 (0)
• Oh boy... Sean 07:07:19 2/21/2001 (0)

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