Just spotted this thread. Wont hide the fact that I am one of the 2 people who work at Shutt.
Yes we do run out of stock. Yes it takes time to schedule our product at our Leicester factory as we part share. Its not always easy to plan our production as we source all the components parts ourselves rather than order completed garments from the far east sometimes. We get let down by our zip supplier, gripper and recently the UK company who made our woven back neck and care labels went under. This was the pain we had with our last quarters production. We expected the labels and they never appeared.. blah blah..
I am told it would be so much easier if we just ordered off the peg garments from China but that’s not why Lauren and I took over Shutt last year.
As to orders we priorities our backlog to people that 1. Place an order and are prepared to wait 2. Ask to be added to the waiting list.
To Warton – sportwool fabric is remarkably robust and should have less than 2% shrinkage even on 95 degree washing. I’ve done it to test. If you still have the jersey happy for you to send to our new office and replace or provide a Shutt Gift voucher.
Thanks, Pete