Sure. My pleasure. Hey! It took me 12 pages to establish what the market is + find out where you-know-who was getting his shirts made. OK? They'll definitely, however:

Be individually - not computer - cut.
Have a unlined, hand-rolled collar
6-button placket, etc.

We'll even have a pull-over.

I'll know the pricing by Wed., the 25th (Pacific Time) and it'll go up on Styleforum on Dec. 1.

I'm going to TRY to do it for $125 (with the pull-over a couple of bucks extra).

We aim to please

Last edited by aucociscokid2 (2015-11-25 00:48:19)

Mr. Mercer does not make the shirts himself. Its the same outfit that's making his.

Here's the deal. Last time.

1. I need to weave 100 yds. per pattern.
2. I need to make shirts individually.
3. The shirts will be offered 1st on Styleforum, whatever fabric remains will be offered to any other merchants/manufacturers who want it.
4. I'm making shirts individually. Mercer is making shirts individually. How many manufacturers in the US can do that? Mercer is making my shirts. Mercer and I are using the same one. Who cares? I have first dips. You want a pattern, buy it on Styleforum, or take a chance on a retailer more to your liking will have it.
5. EVERYBODY involved gets it and is OK with it.

OK?

Last edited by aucociscokid2 (2015-11-25 12:17:48)

Who cares

....wins.

Maybe Jimmy's seamstresses (W.I.) are sewing like crazy behind the scenes!

aucociscokid2, stop getting wound up, your curt responses make you look shifty, I think it's fair what folks are asking. We all agree you have a great product and have put the time and effort in, it's the manufacturing of the finished item my fellow forum-ees want clarity on.

Saying Mercer are making but not making the shirt adds confusion, probably unintentionally - you should probably have just said they are being made by Mercer - but you have thrown another spanner in the works by eluding to something outside of the info the consumer has.

A. These shirts haven't been available in 45+ years.
B. It's hard to get a new business off the ground, esp. one where the waters have been so muddied by competitors selling faux madras.
C. I'm not going to make a reference to Mercer on Styleforum listing. I'm just going to describe their construction in great detail.
D. You want to buy authentic "bleeding" madras, you're going to have to be bought from Loominous, whether it's a shirt made by us or another who uses our madras.
E. Demand is strong for our fabric.
F. Does Macy's tell Gimbel's?
E. Mine, too!

Last edited by aucociscokid2 (2015-11-25 16:51:03)

Buy it from Mercer Shirts then for $195. Buy it on Styleforum from Loominous  for $125. Mercer is doing more of a BB shirt. Loominous is doing one based on Gant madras shirts. We based ours our Gant because it was the most prestigious of the OCBD brands of the '60s and made the most popular "bleeding" madras shirt. Both are Loominous madras.

1. Loominous has ALWAYS offered a shirt BASED on the Gant "bleeding" madras shirt of the 1960s.
2. Loominous is not offering historic recreations. (a) The "bleeding" madras in the 1960s was crap. (b) The shirts made from it was even crappier. We are attempting to offer and are what we consider to be a very high quality shirt even judged against ALL others on the market today, with a silhouette that is flattering to the wearer, judged by 2015 standards which respects what bleeding madras was, utilizing the best design elements from that period which would still be apropos for a worldwide, multi-generational market.
3. You believe what's in the newspapers? You've never been in the news business then. Most of what's in them copy generated by PR agents and usually involves the transfer of funds, hookers, drugs, or some other consideration.
4. Only old guys wore Arrow. Us kids DEMANDED Gant bleeding madras. I was there. My coterie of '60s friends have the same recollection (and I was on a Ivy campus). Ditto for those in the business who lived through the '60s.
5. (a) Charlie Davidson may not have bought Gant back-in-the-day, but he's buying Loominous Bleeding Madras shirts today. (b) I have no heroes. I grew up in the 1960s.

I don't think you're going to be hard pressed to find people on here that wont spend a lot of money on clothes. You might want to frame it that way as to why the fish aren't biting but it's quite obvious what the main reasons are from people not indulging in the ownership of one of your shirts, because you've still not clarified as to what they actually are. You said youd have a photo and swatch...still no sign of that..just some more borderline psychotic rambling

Last edited by Bop (2015-11-26 15:41:58)