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   Over the past three decades, we've learned a lot about fabrics and the people who make them. The R. W. Furr philosophy on fabric 
for suits is consistent with offerings in sports jackets and formal wear:
consummately impressive--what clothing is all about. We only deal with
the very top mills producing the finest quality with the best reputation.
Most of our fabric comes from England, Italy, Switzerland, and France.
We visit these mills so that we can keep our customers abreast of upcoming
style changes and advise them accordingly up to 18 months before they're
reflected in the stores.
The current trend in men's apparel is to label cloth by thread count, stressing the fineness of the yarn with terms like "super 150's," but that is only one factor for evaluating fabric. An analogy could be drawn to the automobile: high horsepower is not necessarily the measure of a great car.
Considering how much you will enjoy wearing your apparel, it is important
that the fabric performs and wears well. Your personal tailor at R. W.
Furr Clothiers takes all these factors into consideration, then draws from
our selection of more than 2,100 fabrics to make recommendations that assure
you of getting the right weight, color, and pattern to meet your needs.
Selecting the fabrics from which your suit will be made is where your own
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When selecting
fabrics, subjective factors such as tensile strength, softness of the yarns,
spinning, weaving, and finishing are just as important. Wrinkle resistance
and wearability are determined by the tightness of the crimp in the yarn.
Four-harness cloths wear the best. They only come from the finest mills,
generally those that have been in existence for more than 150 years. 
