Stanfeilds sweater-shirts

[Gatehouse]

Do only hunters in BC wear them? Or are they across the country?

 

[Sleeper]

when i moved to alberta none of the guys i worked with ever saw one, more BCers here now however.

 

[regulate34]

yep i love mine. the girlfirend says i ware it too much.

 

[Hawkeye]

Can't say I've seem em out of BC either on workers or hunters

 

[Gatehouse]

It's funny cause I am in Alberta right now and the only guy with one is from BC.

 

[Van Isle]

They seem to be a BC thing, which is weird because they've been made in Truro since 1870. On the Stanfield's website they call them "Island Tuxedos." I wanted to get one when I was 18 and living in Ontario but no one had any clue what I was talking about. I could only get my first one when I came home for Christmas and could choose from practically any fishing, hunting, hardware, Marks, or Capital Iron store around.

 

[Brno8x57]

They seem to be a BC thing, which is weird because they've been made in Truro since 1870. On the Stanfield's website they call them "Island Tuxedos." I wanted to get one when I was 18 and living in Ontario but no one had any clue what I was talking about. I could only get my first one when I came home for Christmas and could choose from practically any fishing, hunting, hardware, Marks, or Capital Iron store around.

We often refer to them as Bella Coola business suits. Loggers through out BC have kept this garment in style for decades. A favourite quote from an old hook tender about his stanfields --"When I wear my Bela Coola business suit, no matter how wet and cold I am, I am always warm and dry!"

 

[SuperCub]

I got one from Marks. I like it.



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[Thinking]

I have the only one I've seen in Ontario. Love it!

 

[roop]

I wear one here in Ontario, first saw them in BC though.

 

[Big Jon]

See them occasionally here is AB.

I lost mine

 

[Johnn Peterson]

They seem to be a BC thing, which is weird because they've been made in Truro since 1870. On the Stanfield's website they call them "Island Tuxedos." I wanted to get one when I was 18 and living in Ontario but no one had any clue what I was talking about. I could only get my first one when I came home for Christmas and could choose from practically any fishing, hunting, hardware, Marks, or Capital Iron store around.

When I first noticed them was many years ago as a youth in the B.C. central interior. You could tell when the guys from the coast were up Moose hunting and then we called the gray Stanfields "West Coast Cashmere". When I left the interior after high school, I ended up logging on the west coast of the island for about three years, primarily in the Gold River area. That "West Coast Cashmere" soon became part of my winter or cold weather apparel. I still have two sets, tops and bottems plus Fishermans wool pants I take back to my cabin close to my home town in the interior for Moose hunts.

That "West Coast Cashmere" is visable on a couple of my hunting partners at the cabin on a Moose hunt a couple of years back.

 

[thegreatnorthernhunter]

I see them everywheres, the factory is down the street from my house

 

[H Wally]

Stanny's are great - tough, warm, light and easily packed.

 

[Farva]

That "West Coast Cashmere" is visable on a couple of my hunting partners at the cabin on a Moose hunt a couple of years back.

I also see that the man hunched over is wearing a very fine "Kenora Dinner Jacket", as we call it here.

 

[Republic of Alberta]

Nothing but blue Nomex and reflective stripes out here.


Wool..... pftt who wants to be warm and dry anyways.

 

[rodngun]

I graded in 07, it was weird if you didn't have a Stanfield in high school. One of the most long lasting pieces of clothing I've ever had.

 

[38'55]

I live in NS and this is the first I've seen of them. Definately seems like a nice piece of kit.

 

[Johnn Peterson]

I also see that the man hunched over is wearing a very fine "Kenora Dinner Jacket", as we call it here.

For contending with the cold, it's hard to beat a combination of wool 'Fisherman' pants with 'West Coast Cashmere', plus of course, a 'Kenora Dinner Jacket'. The last time I used mine was on a Mule Deer hunt on draw in Alberta with my Daughter and Son In Law who reside there.

 

[langfordbc]

I moved to Fort St. John from the island last year and was IMMEDIATELY identified as an islander due to my Stanfield, red-strap jeans, and suspenders.

Still choked that they don't make the red-straps anymore...