Thanks for the response Hamish, and I apologise if I seemed rude to you. Didn't mean to. I appreciate that your experience has been good, and I too have no connection with any of these firms. But I don't think their employee was making mischief. I got the feeling that they (I won't even say if it was a he or a she as I don't want to get anyone into trouble...) were fed up with having to be dishonest with customers, which is what this comes down to. It's true I should probably have written to them at the time, and probably still could. But frankly I didn't see the point, since this sort of dishonesty can only really come down from the top and so it seemed likely I'd only get more BS in return.

I think what really disgusts me is that the reason I asked in the first place about it being made in Scotland wasn't just to get a better quality product. But I'm also I'm keen to support the local companies who are doing their best to keep the old skills alive, in the face of intense competition from companies abroad who almost certainly employ sweatshop labour for pennies - child labour quite likely even. So when I found out that one of Scotland's most prominent companies was doing this, and basically telling great big lies, whilst still trading on an image of traditional Scottish values, I was just livid.

I could add that since then, as I've ranted about this to anyone that would listen, I've heard a few more stories about Geoffrey Tailors that only confirm my view of them. I'm not going to repeat these since they're not based on my own experience. But this was, and there's no way they're ever getting a penny more of my hard earned cash.