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Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by kamaal »

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…

>>I have had the unfortunate experience of sitting through entire 3-hour Bollywood films where all the audience did was take notes...

As an Indian I find this strange, when and where did this happen?

I know we are Bollywood crazy nation, and we tend to over do celebrity worship. But going to a movie just to take notes? That's a little going too far.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by drizzzler »

parkov wrote: post #30
tomhschmidt wrote: post #2

I like the concept - most of these kinds of posts are done completely ad hoc and are distributed across all of the various men's fashion forums - but the URL made me think this was going to be a breakdown of famous outfits worn by characters in TV and movies (e.g. The Driver's outfit from Drive). Also, most of the outfits you picked are pretty stale. Go for one that are more exciting or with pieces that would be more…

I've created a site just like this as a side project. Especially relevant with Halloween right around the corner: http://carboncostume.com/ And since you mentioned it, the Driver: http://carboncostume.com/driver/

This is cool.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by recalibrator »

jadlimcaco wrote: post #3
tomhschmidt wrote: post #2

I like the concept - most of these kinds of posts are done completely ad hoc and are distributed across all of the various men's fashion forums - but the URL made me think this was going to be a breakdown of famous outfits worn by characters in TV and movies (e.g. The Driver's outfit from Drive). Also, most of the outfits you picked are pretty stale. Go for one that are more exciting or with pieces that would be more…

Thanks for the feedback. I definitely appreciate it. The reason for these outfits being more "normal" is because our goal is for most people to actually be able to wear these outfits. But we do plan on doing some crazy outfits in the future. Thanks again!

I like the "normal", affordable look myself, so please don't deviate too far from that. You got a good thing going.

And I love the site! Nice writing of product descriptions too. If you had an email newsletter I'd definitely subscribe.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by jadlimcaco »

recalibrator wrote: post #95
jadlimcaco wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback. I definitely appreciate it. The reason for these outfits being more "normal" is because our goal is for most people to actually be able to wear these outfits. But we do plan on doing some crazy outfits in the future. Thanks again!

I like the "normal", affordable look myself, so please don't deviate too far from that. You got a good thing going. And I love the site! Nice writing of product descriptions too. If you had an email newsletter I'd definitely subscribe.

We do have an email newsletter. You can sign up on the footer :) Thanks! And we definitely want to keep doing what we are doing with the "affordable" looks.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by Scoundreller »

ecesena wrote: post #86
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!

That could be an additional feature: allow users to comment on particular items so they can discuss where to pull off the same look for less.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by zeckalpha »

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…

Seconding many of the other comments regarding the similarity between Uniqlo and Target. I have a few oxford dress shirts from each (Merona brand at Target) and they appear to be so similar in cut, fit, and quality to be from the same factory. There are subtle differences in the collar styling, but they aren't noticeable unless you hold them up next to each other.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by outfit »

jadlimcaco wrote: post #3
tomhschmidt wrote: post #2

I like the concept - most of these kinds of posts are done completely ad hoc and are distributed across all of the various men's fashion forums - but the URL made me think this was going to be a breakdown of famous outfits worn by characters in TV and movies (e.g. The Driver's outfit from Drive). Also, most of the outfits you picked are pretty stale. Go for one that are more exciting or with pieces that would be more…

Thanks for the feedback. I definitely appreciate it. The reason for these outfits being more "normal" is because our goal is for most people to actually be able to wear these outfits. But we do plan on doing some crazy outfits in the future. Thanks again!

I own staroutfit.com and celebrityoutfit.com because I wanted to build something similar but never found the time to do so. If anyone is interested in these domains let me know. I think one could build something interesting and profitable.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by wodenokoto »

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…

But if you found a shirt at uniqlo, haven't you already found a cheap shirt?

Pants are easy to shorten, so if you find some that fits at uniqlo, except for being too long, have them shortened. They provide this service in-store at uniqlo in japan, I don't know about the US.

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