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Billypisschips t1_j4b0z16 wrote

A dead giveaway of Barbours falling quality is the lack of pattern matching. Older barbour items featuring the tartan (plaid) check; shirts, hats, bags etc would always match the pattern at the seams, on newer items they can't be bothered to even try (or they won't pay the Chinese factory enough for these small but important details which they are quite capable of, for a price).

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badsandwiches t1_j4bacu9 wrote

I live near the factory, it definitely isn't a Chinese factory churning out rubbish haha. Can't speak for their bags because I've never bought one but I have some of their things which still look brand new, even down to a harness I bought for my dog which was more than well used before he outgrew it.

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SlfDstructingUsrName t1_j4bjvgs wrote

If you're talking about the factory in England I'm pretty sure they just make the Beaufort and bedale there. Everything else is Moldova, Vietnam, some other places.

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badsandwiches t1_j4byuda wrote

I'll be honest, since my stuff has lasted such a long time it will all say it was made in South shields so I'm not the most informed. I can say from experience that the dog's stuff, which is more recent, is good quality regardless of where it would have been made.

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