Monthly Archives: September 2008

Suit Shopping for the “Vertically Challenged” 2

Ok, let’s talk about how great life can be when you’re less than 5’8″ tall.  Seriously.  Look at Tom Cruise.  It’s probably because he’s 5’8″ that he landed that key role in Top Gun as the motorcycle-riding, fighter-pilot-flying, Kelly-McGillis-romancing “Maverick” (yes, we wanted to be him).  And look at him now: he’s totally insane and [...]

Proper Cloth Private Launch Begins 0

Today, at Proper Cloth we are beginning to open our service to the first members.  We’ve done everything we can to make shopping for dress clothes online fun and interesting and in the process we’ve come up with some pretty interesting technology that I’d like to introduce. One of the things we’re particularly proud of [...]

4 Ways to Tell a Dress Shirt is Out of Style 0

You probably have several.  You know what I’m talking about… in the back of your closet… had them since college.  Since you’re semi-fashion-conscious you have this nagging feeling they’re out of style but you just can’t put your finger on it…  Wait… out of style?  Dress shirts don’t go out of style!  They’re a classic, [...]

How to Not Get Fired This Week- Reintroducing the White Dress Shirt 0

Yes, it’s true.  The world is ending.  Armageddon is here.  AIG nearly collapsed, BoA took over Merrill Lynch, Lehman bankers are working for Barclays, and today alone the Dow dropped 450 points.  With all this drama our offices are filled with gossip and paranoia.  No work will get done this week.  There’s just not enough [...]

What were we thinking? 0

It’s been a long journey turning Proper Cloth from an idea into reality, but we’re almost there.  Guess I’ll start with a bit of a personal introduction and an explanation of how all this got started: After sampling a variety of careers, I went to business school, which included internships in Shanghai and Bangalore, and [...]