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Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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bshimmin wrote: post #36

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…

That's awesome! I had no idea. We actually link to some of their clothing on the site. Thanks for taking a site.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by jadlimcaco »

stevesearer wrote: post #42
jadlimcaco wrote: post #4

By the way, looking for feedback on design, content, functionality, and overall idea. Feel free to ask me any questions. Thanks!

The lookbook collages look and function really nicely. Are you generating them from within wordpress? Plugin?

Thanks for the kind words. The look books are something we created custom.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by jadlimcaco »

muglug wrote: post #45
jadlimcaco wrote: post #4

By the way, looking for feedback on design, content, functionality, and overall idea. Feel free to ask me any questions. Thanks!

Looks good. The clothing tooltips are slightly buggy on Chrome (sometimes they don't appear).

Thanks! Is there a specific example you could give about the tooltips being buggy so we can look into it?

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by jadlimcaco »

backwardm wrote: post #62

I wonder how they know what socks the celebrities were wearing? They are nice socks, I just can't see them in the actual photos.

We call them before we post :) Just kidding, we just match up a pair of socks based on the look of the outfit. Thanks for taking a look at the site.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by jadlimcaco »

ralphos wrote: post #34

Nice execution. We had a similar idea called http://www.pinchthelook.com but for women. The feedback was great and people 'loved' the site but ultimately we couldn't get to a scale where there was enough traffic and clicks to make it worthwhile. Engagement isn't fantastic since it's more of a quick browse and if I like something click away from site. Perhaps this idea will work better for Men as they probably need a…

Thanks for the kind words. Curious as to how long you actively developed. Also interested in what felt worked/didn't work in engaging your audience.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by jadlimcaco »

anigbrowl wrote: post #83

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.

Absolutely and great suggestion. We 100% agree with you and that is our plan moving forward.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by phatboyslim »

natewinn wrote: post #114
ecesena wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

Thanks so much for the kind words and insight. Why would you say the trends are like that in Italy and EU? Also, how "close" would be a "good match?" We really value your thoughts, thanks again!

Fantastic idea. I've seen similar sites, but 99.9% of them focus on fashion for women and I felt this market was undeserved for men. I'm not suggesting you maintain only one gender, but I appreciate that you are showing male outfits. Really love the notion of a daily (at minimum) outfit as well. Perhaps, in addition to Facebook/Instagram/e-newsletter, you could add a link for RSS? Keep fighting the good fight, love the site.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by jadlimcaco »

dtournemille wrote: post #88

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 b…

Great idea. We're trying to think of ways we can do this. Thanks for taking a look.
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