February 2012
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January 2012
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December 2011
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An Inside Look Of A Bespokeable Shirt...
Cao Vinh, a tailor in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam recommended a shirt for Andy in New York, NY USA.
Andy, who dresses conservatively, wanted a casual shirt for work. He has brown eyes, dark brown hair, and a fair-to-medium skin tone. He has a round face shape, a normal shoulder slope, and a normal stomach size. He listed blue, green, white, and black as his preferred colors, but did not have any...
November 2011
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The Local Tailor Re-defined
Blank Label, one of the hundreds of online clothing apps that let people design & customize their own off-the-rack factory-made shirts, claims that a a light blue herringbone fabric would cost $300 at your ‘Local Tailor’. The complete inaccuracy of that aside, it really got us thinking… What’s does ‘local tailor’ even mean anymore? Aren’t we rendering...
“A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and...”
– Louis Nizer
Want $ for inviting your friends to Bespokeable?...
Letting your friends in on the good life of having their own tailor just got even more rewarding. Bespokeable now has a referrals program, and for each friend that you invite who makes a purchase, you’ll receive $10 credit that you can use on Bespokeable. Yay! So if 2 of your invited friends purchase something, you’ll receive $20; 3 friends, it’s $30, and so on. If you get 3 or...
July 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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Why Recommendations Will Rule the 21st Century
Here’s a prediction: Recommendations will rule commerce in the 21st century.
The reason? One word. Customization.
The days of buying mass-produced, cookie-cutter type products are over. The world is entering a new era, where people want scarcity. They don’t want what their neighbors have. What’s more is that the Internet, along with globalization, is making customized...
February 2011
2 posts
“Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.”
– Oscar Wilde
WatchBespokeable.com | A marketplace for things custom-made.
December 2010
4 posts
“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.”
– Albert Einstein
“Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich,...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
November 2010
4 posts
The Human Touch
Tom Foremski from the Silicon Valley Watcher recently blogged about curation vs aggregation on the internet. He defines curation “as a person, or a group of people, engaged in choosing and presenting a collection of things related to a specific topic and context”, and aggregation as something that “employs software (algorithms) and machines (servers) to assemble a collection...
Anonymous asked: Hello! I just received the tailor's tape you sent me. Thank you very much. I'm curious to see how this shirt will be different from my others, if at all. Hope to hear from you, and thanks again!
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October 2010
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“Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only...”
– Oscar Wilde
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WatchWhy more people are leaving clothes on the rack, and going custom.
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July 2010
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Bespokeable.com Getting Some Press
Today, CrunchGear wrote a piece about customization and the web. They mentioned Bespokeable:
From the article:
An interesting twist on customized clothing comes from Nicholas Marx of Bespokeable, currently in closed beta: a marketplace for customized products backed by a recommendation engine. Bespokeable is currently focusing on clothing, but they have plans to expand to other customized...
February 2010
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“Keep these concepts in mind: You’ve failed many times, although you don’t...”
– Sherman Finesilver (via alexkehr) (via zealoustriathlete)
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Need An Edge? Wear Some Color
You need an edge in life. Try using the color in your clothing to get one. Yes, we’re serious.
Color is a very powerful psychological tool. There are in fact, real changes that take place in humans when they are exposed to certain colors - and they can do some crazy things to us. They can stimulate, excite, depress, tranquilize, increase or reduce appetite, and even create feelings of...
January 2010
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“Color is so powerful. If I had my eyes closed & someone put a red coat on...”
– Tom Ford