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Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

#51
This is really good...I like the concept. I hate shopping online for single items online and i do find myself 'borrowing' from the style of others.

Packaging up all items for delivery is great. Having people upload their own style and having your site do the same with their picture would be pretty awesome.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

#53

Great looking site. Funnily enough, asos.com, which is something like the third biggest UK Internet company now (according to some slightly dubious stats that were posted here a month or two ago), actually started out with a similar premise: they don't mention it much these days (a tiny link in the footer which leads to a page looking like it needs a bit of love [0]), but the acronym originally stood for "As Seen On…

> Back when I was young and impressionable, I bought a leather jacket much like one of the ones Brad Pitt wore in "Fight Club".

That's extra funny because his character in that movie more or less directly argues against such behaviour!

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

#54
The jacket Ryan Gosling is wearing has a front pocket. I don't think it's the Perry Ellis Bomber Jacket.

His boots also don't look like Steve Madden boots.

This is a great concept, but it would be a lot more meaningful to me if I knew I could trust the product listings.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

#55
post #17

Hmm... love the idea, and it'll probably make money, but the problem with anything like this (even magazine ads) is that cut is paramount and people come in different shapes and sizes. Clothes fitting properly matters much more than what they look like on the rack, and more often than not, cuts at discount stores are either atrocious, or they are designed for fit models (those lucky jerks). I can go to uniqlo, i can…

http://www.supernifty.org/bmi.php + http://famousoutfits.com/ = WIN

There's a lot more to fit than BMI - body shape, for example.

And in fact matching the right Colours to your skin tone and style will have a greater impact on how you look (and feel) than the right fit, although both are important.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

#56
Awesome idea! Adding a forum or some type of community/social aspect might be even more fun for visitors. I noticed the comments at the bottom of the pages and it looks like some visitors are already posting some things and that's great. Maybe with some more social features you can build a community and bring in more traffic.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

#58

The jacket Ryan Gosling is wearing has a front pocket. I don't think it's the Perry Ellis Bomber Jacket. His boots also don't look like Steve Madden boots. This is a great concept, but it would be a lot more meaningful to me if I knew I could trust the product listings.

I am fairly certain the idea of this website isn't "wear exactly what celebs are wearing".

Rather, the idea is "you can look like a celeb without buying designer clothing!"

Indeed, the former can be found in a plethora of style magazines.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

#59

You know what would make this a lot better? Packaging it up so that one wouldn't have to go to 10 different stores to pick the items up. I'd order straight away and pay a premium to save the hazzle. A logistics challenge for sure, but you'd have at least one customer right here.

Indeed, you can use plugins like http://varinode.com/ that allows customers to make purchase on the site itself.
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