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What’ll it take to make clothes fit?

Clothes have no value unless they fit – but accelerating online sales make that achievement less likely than ever. A  gaping disconnect in the e-business model …. According to a recent Danish startup named Fitbay, as much as 50% of clothing sold online gets returned because it doesn’t fit. The company has a certain vested (geddit?) interest in pegging that figure high, because the company...

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Rethinking Lindbergh and the style mantle

Brand identity and fashion style can come from an authentic core – or just be an attempt at a Hogwarts mantle of blatant deception Fashion supplement I sat over a long Saturday breakfast, and flicked through one of the “advertorial” magazines that increasingly accompany our newspapers, all desperate to force a way through any tiny chink in our media awareness. There was a mega-big section...

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Rethinking the (gentleman’s) hairdresser experience

Seen with the eyes of a mere male, the hairdressing trade seems to be heading for a hiccup by ignoring the customer, right when s/he is balancing amid intensely personal issues of vanity and self-confidence Haircut hell A certain level of grooming is necessary in the business world, so yesterday morning I went to the “hairdresser” (weird name, really …). Getting my hair cut...

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