Shrinkage in FIE Certified Jackets/Knickers

I am looking to buy the Ulhman FIE Jacket/Knickers for one of the
fencers in my household. What has been the experience with shrinkage?
Last thing anyone wants to do is have $400 in equipment that becomes
too small to wear. I do read care lables and launder appropriately -
still....

Rick
(Fencing Dad - i.e. driver, armorer, and purser, etc....)

In article <f4c23eae.0311101454.4603c8d@posting.google.com> ,
rwicker@1bigred.com (Richard Wicker) writes:

>I am looking to buy the Ulhman FIE Jacket/Knickers for one of the
>fencers in my household. What has been the experience with shrinkage?
> Last thing anyone wants to do is have $400 in equipment that becomes
>too small to wear. I do read care lables and launder appropriately -
>still....

My beloved Startex does not shrink but both my Uhlmann and Allstar FIE
underarms have shrunk a lot.

Bill Hall

"Richard Wicker" <rwicker@1bigred.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:f4c23eae.0311101454.4603c8d@posting.google.co m...
> I am looking to buy the Ulhman FIE Jacket/Knickers for one of the
> fencers in my household. What has been the experience with shrinkage?
> Last thing anyone wants to do is have $400 in equipment that becomes
> too small to wear. I do read care lables and launder appropriately -
> still....
>
> Rick
> (Fencing Dad - i.e. driver, armorer, and purser, etc....)


Don't worry, you're going to buy the best stuff around.....

My personal experience: I've an Allstar Startex uniform and doesn't shrink
at all. Even in the washing machine at 40°C......I use to wash it a lot....

I've experienced a lot of brands......they used to shrink a bit (the
Allstar/Ulhman Athen series, semi-elastic, as well), but You can sleep well
with the Startex. It's more expensive.....but it's worth all the money.
In Europe it's one of the best choices among top fencers. I also liked a
lot the "bankrupt" France Lame uniform.....really really good (unfortunatly
now, It's impossible to find it), and the Negrini one.


Pier

In article <dcVsb.113740$vO5.4422212@twister1.libero.it>, "Edmond Dantes"
<sabremanNOSPAM@email.it> writes:

>> (Fencing Dad - i.e. driver, armorer, and purser, etc....)

Why not fencer? Remember the motto of Veteran Fencers:

We have fun, but we do keep score.

Here is the advice I give all the parents in my club. Buy uniforms that you can
comfortably wear, then loan them to your kids.

Bill Hall

I have been taking classes - but I have imposed two rules:
1. Do not buy knickers until I am ready to be humiliated in a competition.
Warmup pants work just fine for class.
2. Never fence either of my children....

Rick
"Fencerbill" <fencerbill@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20031114184319.23171.00002087@mb-m05.aol.com...
> In article <dcVsb.113740$vO5.4422212@twister1.libero.it>, "Edmond Dantes"
> <sabremanNOSPAM@email.it> writes:
>
> >> (Fencing Dad - i.e. driver, armorer, and purser, etc....)
>
> Why not fencer? Remember the motto of Veteran Fencers:
>
> We have fun, but we do keep score.
>
> Here is the advice I give all the parents in my club. Buy uniforms that
you can
> comfortably wear, then loan them to your kids.
>
> Bill Hall

If you ever want to fence your children, do it now. Later will be too
late. I started at age 42 when my son was 13, and thought, this is
neat, it's the only place in town I can beat up on my kids with steel
rods and not get arrested. Seven years later I have three kids fencing
and, more often than not, it's my ass that's taking the beating. Be
merciless whilst there's still time!!

Robert Smith

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 11:15:18 GMT, "Richard Wicker"
<rwicker@adelphia.net> wrote:

>I have been taking classes - but I have imposed two rules:
>1. Do not buy knickers until I am ready to be humiliated in a competition.
>Warmup pants work just fine for class.
>2. Never fence either of my children....
>
>Rick
>"Fencerbill" <fencerbill@aol.com> wrote in message
>news:20031114184319.23171.00002087@mb-m05.aol.com...
>> In article <dcVsb.113740$vO5.4422212@twister1.libero.it>, "Edmond Dantes"
>> <sabremanNOSPAM@email.it> writes:
>>
>> >> (Fencing Dad - i.e. driver, armorer, and purser, etc....)
>>
>> Why not fencer? Remember the motto of Veteran Fencers:
>>
>> We have fun, but we do keep score.
>>
>> Here is the advice I give all the parents in my club. Buy uniforms that
>you can
>> comfortably wear, then loan them to your kids.
>>
>> Bill Hall
>

Richard Wicker writes:

>2. Never fence either of my children....

I went with my daughter to a competition last year. First round of DE's, in a
field of about 50 fencers, and guess what - we ended up against each other. Go
figure.

But it turned out to be an extremely enjoyable bout. I didn't care much
whether I won or lost - either would have made me happy. (And the prize was to
go against a fencer in the next round who outclassed both of us, so there
wasn't much motivation there.) As a result of the lack of pressure, I did some
of my best fencing of the day in that bout, certainly the cleanest.

She beat me by a couple points, but it was great fun.

In article <20031117092115.25936.00000392@mb-m05.aol.com>, jdzik@aol.com
(JDzik) writes:

>She beat me by a couple points, but it was great fun.

And that is what fencing should be about.

And how about fencers at a World Championship who wind up fencing a countryman,
or the Jacobson sisters fencing each other?

Bill Hall