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Subscription Men’s Clothing Startup Bombfell Raises $730,000 Seed Round

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Re: Subscription Men’s Clothing Startup Bombfell Raises $730,000 Seed Round

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Post by dpark »

tocomment wrote: post #40

$69/month is about 10x my clothing budget! Should I be embarrassed? Ashamed? Is this a sign I'm not dressing well :-( (I go out once every other year and spend 100-300 on new clothes)

Where do you live? I can't imagine how you're buying enough clothes to get through the week. You're spending $50-$150 per year?

Prices at Target.com indicate that I'd have to spend $65 just to replace my socks ($14 for a pack of 10), underwear ($28 for 8 pair), and undershirts ($23 for a pack of 6). And realistically, I'd be looking at another $23 for more undershirts because 6 isn't enough to get through a week. So I'm more than halfway through your maximum yearly budget and don't have any pants or shirts that are actually supposed to be seen. Granted, these things might not be fully replaced every year, but these are also just basics.

Also, how are you affording shoes? Even just one pair per year would eat up half of your max budget. Cheaper shoes can be found, but I find them so non-durable that it more than offsets the savings.

I don't think you should be embarrassed. If you can buy all your clothes for that price and not look homeless, good for you. I just don't know how you could manage it.

Re: Subscription Men’s Clothing Startup Bombfell Raises $730,000 Seed Round

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Post by jordanlev »

Looks similar to TrunkClub ( http://www.trunkclub.com/ ), which I saw on HN a couple of months ago. But with cheaper prices. (And hopefully better service -- the TrunkClub advisor I talked to missed an appointment, was confrontational, and didn't seem to listen well).

Re: Subscription Men’s Clothing Startup Bombfell Raises $730,000 Seed Round

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Post by akavi »

jawns wrote: post #5

Here's what I don't understand about this business model. On the one hand, you're targeting guys who feel like they don't know enough about fashion to be able to make good clothing choices themselves -- so they trust an unknown stylist with unknown credentials to make the choice for them. On the other hand, you're targeting guys who value premium, name-brand clothes. I would think that if you're in category one, you…

I can only speak for myself, but I just signed up, so I guess I'm part of their market.

I consider myself (or at least, aspire to be) decently fashionable, but I have a lot of anxiety about actually clothes purchasing. The whole subscription + curation model means a) clothes appear without me having to actually make the (for me, very fraught) decision and b) when I think that an item of clothing looks good, I have some corroboration on that from someone who does this for a living.

Re: Subscription Men’s Clothing Startup Bombfell Raises $730,000 Seed Round

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Post by saukrates »

bernieyoo wrote: post #23
kaybe wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you looked into buying in the UK or maybe setting up a deal with a supplier there?

Not yet - still iterations on the service we want to push through before expanding to UK.

Any thoughts on service to Canada?

Re: Subscription Men’s Clothing Startup Bombfell Raises $730,000 Seed Round

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Post by bernieyoo »

burningion wrote: post #50

Page keeps crashing in Chrome on OSX after clicking get started. I get through about 4 steps and the page crashes the Chrome window.

Are you using any extensions? I'm using Chrome on OSX and not able to replicate that.

Re: Subscription Men’s Clothing Startup Bombfell Raises $730,000 Seed Round

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Post by bernieyoo »

jordanlev wrote: post #52

Looks similar to TrunkClub ( http://www.trunkclub.com/ ), which I saw on HN a couple of months ago. But with cheaper prices. (And hopefully better service -- the TrunkClub advisor I talked to missed an appointment, was confrontational, and didn't seem to listen well).

Yea we definitely want to offer clothing at reasonable prices. We're bringing web technology to the traditionally offline/manual process of personal styling so that we don't have to charge exorbitantly high prices to turn a profit. More automated, less 1:1 back-and-forth, but still with fantastic customer service.

Re: Subscription Men’s Clothing Startup Bombfell Raises $730,000 Seed Round

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Post by kadjar »

I was way excited for this, but was a little disappointed as I went through the signup process.

I'm not terribly fashion-savvy, and I don't know how to pair things. If there were an 'outfit' option where you could receive a pair of pants / shorts and a fitting top for about $150 / month, I would sign up, and many of my friends would too.

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