The short-sleeve and twill long-sleeve dress shirts have been slow sellers and are being discontinued. Barker is working on a replacement for the blue and white long-sleeve Oxford dress shirts. The current shirts (the ones being discontinued) are 100% cotton, and as Dick Isely noted are not the easiest shirts to care for. The replacements will be a 60/40 blend that should hold up better with use. 73, Mark K1RO

-----Original Message----- From: Craigie, Kay (2nd Vice President) Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 4:40 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [ARRL-ODV:10675] Barker Specialty stuff on sale

The IN-news has an item about the Barker Specialty site being revised. When I went to take a look at it, I noticed that several items are being discontinued, including the oxford cloth long-sleeved dress shirts (blue and white) and the twill dress shirts (tan) that some of us like to wear at conventions. If you want these shirts, now would be a good time to order before they run out of your size in the color you prefer. I'm sorry to see these items go away, but I guess they just didn't sell well enough to survive. 73 - Kay N3KN