STORES Magazine - September 2008 - (Page 36) WORTH WATCHING / CONCEPT2WATCH Dress to Express ored with corporate life and possessed of a flair for cool duds, two twenty-somethings have created another “next big thing” in online shopping: An e-commerce site where men can design and buy high-quality blazers (and by this fall, pants) at affordable prices. The blazers can be customized to allow buyers to be as conservative or as daring as they choose. Coley Dale and Jeff Horowitz, both 27, took advantage of the low costs of fabrics and workmanship to buy customized blazers when they lived and worked in Shanghai. Looking for a way to escape the drudgery of corporate life and to take on the challenges of creating their own business, Dale and Horowitz had a brainstorm: create a website and let men everywhere DressMonkey Los Angeles Coley Dale, Jeff Horowitz, principals www.dressmonkey.com have a chance to buy high quality blazers at modest cost and design those blazers to suit their tastes. After three years of cajoling Chinese fabric makers and mills to supply materials and tailor suits “on demand,” they launched Dressmonkey.com in July 2007. ‘We wanted to create a very user-friendly environment to put forth a very complicated product,” Dale says. Dressmonkey.com allows fashionistas to be as “in-depth, detailed and precise in their design as they like, but at the same time, it allows men of traditional tastes to order blazers that are comfortably cool.” — Liz Parks 36 WWW.STORES.ORG B http://www.dressmonkey.com http://Dressmonkey.com http://Dressmonkey.com http://WWW.STORES.ORG
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