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Re: I dropped over 40 grand when I could have spent $100

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Post by geon » Fri, Apr 19, 2013, 6:23 AM UTC

PaulHoule wrote: post #52

edw519 wrote: post #41

The target audience for Rewire Attire, the high end fashion marketplace, was women with enough money ... Whenever I read "target audience" and "with enough money" in the same sentence, I run the other way. My experience with prospects "with enough money": - there are far less of them than everyone else - many of them didn't earn it themselves, so... - they really don't really understand the concept of "value" - they…

High end consumers are often jerks, but so are some people who sell to them. I know a woman who makes hand-knit sweaters for about $250. She makes them out of acrylic yarn, which shocks me. If I'm going to spend a lot for clothes I'm going to want a nice material, like wool. Particularly when you consider the cost of the labor, the extra cost of the wool is nothing. She told me she did sell a wool sweater to somebody…

> Particularly when you consider the cost of the labor, the extra cost of the wool is nothing.

> she did sell a wool sweater to somebody who went home and washed in hot, it shrank, and then heard no ends of complaints about it

If she still can sell all the sweaters she knit, her customers clearly don't care about the material. Using a matrial that doesn't shrink increases the percieved quality of her product and gives her less trouble.

Seems reasonable to me.

Re: I dropped over 40 grand when I could have spent $100

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Post by filopodium » Fri, Apr 19, 2013, 6:24 AM UTC

http://fits.me/

These people are trying to solve this problem. They have also taken a very interesting route and built a robotic mannequin which can change it's shape.

In any case I don't think I will ever be able to give a better overview than the site itself.

Re: I dropped over 40 grand when I could have spent $100

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Post by xiaoma » Fri, Apr 19, 2013, 8:35 AM UTC

edw519 wrote: post #41

The target audience for Rewire Attire, the high end fashion marketplace, was women with enough money ... Whenever I read "target audience" and "with enough money" in the same sentence, I run the other way. My experience with prospects "with enough money": - there are far less of them than everyone else - many of them didn't earn it themselves, so... - they really don't really understand the concept of "value" - they…

>I'd love to learn how to better communicate in writing on-line without being misunderstood... It's a work in progress.

Try actually replying to people! Repeatedly editing your posts to add "presponses" subverts the format of a forum.

Re: I dropped over 40 grand when I could have spent $100

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Post by BSousa » Fri, Apr 19, 2013, 12:57 PM UTC

HeyLaughingBoy wrote: post #85

tarr11 wrote: post #35

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"perfect fit" may be less of an issue than you think for high end fashion. If you asked them if they have trouble finding the perfect fit, I wonder what they would say. A lot of these women wear things like Lululemon, which fits really well, and makes their butt look good. They don't necessarily wear high end fashion (heels, skirts, whatever) because it "fits". They wear it because they like how it looks, how it make…

I'm a little puzzled by the "perfect fit" thing myself. In college I worked for a men's specialty clothing store in NYC. All the expensive stuff (IOW, most of what they sold) was adjusted by the in-house tailors. You'd buy something off the rack, and then be immediately taken to someone who would take your measurements and take it in/let it out to get a good fit. Doesn't this kind of thing happen anymore? D

It is the difference between buying a shirt or suit (for men) that comes in Small/Medium/Large and buying one that is designed for a certain body type (broad shoulders, slim waist or short but fit) initial design. You can alter both, but a design that is more specific than S/M/L will usually look alot better after altering than a generic one.

I have both range of suits, and I can say there is a world of difference, even after altering between high end suits in fit than generic ones.

A very specific example a couple years ago when I got married, I ended up buying a really nice suit. That year trend by brand: Zegna suits were usually designed for the average man (height/weight), Ralph Lauren for more short guys and Armani for tall slimmer folk. As far as I've remember buying a suit, RL suits were always the better fit before and after alterations since I'm short, specially their more italian line that goes for short/broader shoulder/slim men.

Re: I dropped over 40 grand when I could have spent $100

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Post by illuminate » Fri, Apr 19, 2013, 2:58 PM UTC

Samuel_Michon wrote: post #109

illuminate wrote: post #55

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You don't need to actually have "built this" to act as if you did, naturally.

Sure, but they are the people who feel that they don't need to pay taxes and that anyone doing work for them are lucky not to be unemployed and can easily be exploited.

You don't need to be a Randian ideal self-starter to pretend that you are and use those same entitlements to abuse your workers.