Silver Linings
Nostalgia 24
This scan of a Dannimac PU funnel-necked mac from 2005 is a favourite of mine, but hasn’t only been included for that reason.
2003, I think, and I was idly passing time by looking at the rainwear in the various stores and came across an off-white Dannimac in exactly this style, but it was the fabric that intrigued me. The cloth was black on the inside, indicating that it was two bonded layers like a . . . double textured . . ?
My hopes were dashed when I found that the layers were bonded with some sort of glue that had no aroma to it at all, but it looked and felt like a double textured mac.
“Well, that’s an oddity!” I thought as I walked into the James Howell store, Cardiff’s Harrods and took the escalator, the head of which was at the entrance doors to the department marked ‘Ladies Outerwear’. There, I noticed the same type of coat and was rechecking the labels when I noticed that theirs was branded ‘House of Fraser’ rather than Dannimac. “Even odder!” was the thought that flashed by, to be instantly eclipsed when I noticed the tag.
The priciest shop in the city was selling the same coat as the other stores under their house brand for less than half the price!
Who was I to complain? and it only took a seconds thought before I asked one of their assistants to model it for me (always a highlight in Howell’s or the adjacent David Morgan store), plastic at the ready. Ann didn’t complain either.
I guess I’ll never sort that one out, nor what prompted Dannimac to produce a polyurethane coated version a few years later.
Nostalgia 24
This scan of a Dannimac PU funnel-necked mac from 2005 is a favourite of mine, but hasn’t only been included for that reason.
2003, I think, and I was idly passing time by looking at the rainwear in the various stores and came across an off-white Dannimac in exactly this style, but it was the fabric that intrigued me. The cloth was black on the inside, indicating that it was two bonded layers like a . . . double textured . . ?
My hopes were dashed when I found that the layers were bonded with some sort of glue that had no aroma to it at all, but it looked and felt like a double textured mac.
“Well, that’s an oddity!” I thought as I walked into the James Howell store, Cardiff’s Harrods and took the escalator, the head of which was at the entrance doors to the department marked ‘Ladies Outerwear’. There, I noticed the same type of coat and was rechecking the labels when I noticed that theirs was branded ‘House of Fraser’ rather than Dannimac. “Even odder!” was the thought that flashed by, to be instantly eclipsed when I noticed the tag.
The priciest shop in the city was selling the same coat as the other stores under their house brand for less than half the price!
Who was I to complain? and it only took a seconds thought before I asked one of their assistants to model it for me (always a highlight in Howell’s or the adjacent David Morgan store), plastic at the ready. Ann didn’t complain either.
I guess I’ll never sort that one out, nor what prompted Dannimac to produce a polyurethane coated version a few years later.