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Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by pterhx »

kimagure wrote: post #77
scoofy wrote: 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…

> at the uniqlo, i may try going to their jeans section, but nothing fits me, nothing you don't get your pants fitted at uniqlo? it's free and only takes 30 minutes or so.

AFAIK, Uniqlo only hems, and the jeans probably don't fit in other ways (e.g. thighs, calves).

I would, however, love to be wrong.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by anigbrowl »

Suggestions from Mrs Browl - great, but do the same for celebrities of different ethnicities and sizes. There are plenty of guys who are shaped like Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, John Goodman - all of whom are well dressed.

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Post by ecesena »

dxbydt wrote: post #11

Very nicely done. If you did this for Indian celebrities, VCs in India would throw eight figure sums to buy you out. As an immigrant, I'd say Americans are relatively more rational ie. not so celeb-crazy as to completely remodel themselves after a celebrity, though teens, especially teen girls tend to be an the outlier in this aspect. But if you look at celeb-crazy countries like India, you have grown men & women in…

In Italy (I bet more generally in EU) I see more the use case of knowing what a celebrity wears, but have a couple of alternatives to do a good match, without looking exactly the same... food for thoughts :) Great work btw!

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by dtournemille »

It would be a much better customer experience if you could buy the entire outfit in one action -- add outfit to cart, checkout, done -- instead of going to each product's ecommerce site individually, which would take quite a long time. I realize these are all different stores operating on disparate platforms -- Hybris, Magento, Oracle ATG, Elastic Path, etc. -- but aggregating it somehow via a middle platform would be much more seamless to the end user. And the site operators could take a small cut.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by marknutter »

encoderer wrote: post #78

Well done and congrats on launching. But I hate that it's all about promoting cheap consumer goods that were made in a Chinese sweatshop and are half way to their final destination in an American landfill. I'm not trying to sound elitist, but Old Navy? That stuff is garbage and will fall apart. And before somebody points out that not everybody is as fortunate as I must be: Clothes and other textiles once made up a mu…

Or maybe people don't want to wear the same thing for more than five years and like to change their style up from time to time without giving an arm and a leg. You're lamenting the wonders of economic efficiency and industrialization, not a "more-is-better" culture. And you may not be trying to sound elitist, you are elitist. Please go to your local old navy give the same speech you wrote here to the single mother trying her best to buy her kids some decent looking, fashionable clothes while also putting food on the table and try to tell them you're not trying to be elitist.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by antidaily »

encoderer wrote: post #79
dxbydt wrote: post #11

Very nicely done. If you did this for Indian celebrities, VCs in India would throw eight figure sums to buy you out. As an immigrant, I'd say Americans are relatively more rational ie. not so celeb-crazy as to completely remodel themselves after a celebrity, though teens, especially teen girls tend to be an the outlier in this aspect. But if you look at celeb-crazy countries like India, you have grown men & women in…

> Americans are relatively more rational ie. not so celeb-crazy ....Said nobody ever :)

True. That said, I have no idea who many of these guys are.
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