General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Never mind the gannex, he says.

I'd already found out about it, as you should expect.

Once, Chairman Mao, Presidents Khrushchev and Johnson, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh all joined Harold Wilson in wearing a Kagan Gannex, that clever mingling of bobbly nylon and tartan wool. Even the royal corgis were photographed in Gannex.
.. the last Gannex was manufactured at Kagan Textiles, in Elland, Yorkshire, only last May (1994). There are now just a few hundred left, available from the factory or from retailers in Peebles, Edinburgh or Pitlochry, small bastions of taste. Can no one come forward to relaunch the Gannex into our dreary sea of anoraks and urban gamekeeper outfits?