new designer in menswear doing research (*US patented dress shirt collars*)

[matadorpoeta]

Originally Posted by Joel_Cairo

wow, he wasn't kidding. Fall 2006, page 14:

this is why i no longer read magazines.

 

[Sator]

Originally Posted by caelte

Eric,

I appreciate what you're trying to do but you should know:
when someone puts in "patented shirt collar" on a search engine, this thread will come up, with all it's comments.

There are fashion editors who read the SF.

Menswear is about evolution in very small increments.
Even small innovations are viewed as radical.

I sell really well to a luxury market that buys all the goods talked about on SF.
Yet, only two individual from the SF , that I know of, have what I make.

In the SF, what I do is about as popular as a radical collar design, but, unlike you, I'm not here to make a sale or convince anyone.

The SF is alot of fun and you can learn alot but, your not doing well.

Your on the ground getting your ass kicked.
Seriously, get up or get out before your reputation is destroyed.

Actually, this is excellent advice for you Eric. I join those who have wished you well but SF and AAAC are the wrong audience for your collars. Face it, you'd be better off trying to sell us starched detachable collars.

 

[acidboy]

Originally Posted by zjpj83

Eric, I feel really sorry for the criticism you have had to endure on this thread.
After reading this:

Originally Posted by eric glennie

thanks gentlemen for all your lovely responses. if you can get your genitalia out of your heads and knuckles out from dragging in the sand, i hope you might like the newest designs i posted on my website www.ericglennie.com. tell me what you think about my side-bar collars, rear-bar collars , and spliced neckties. does this calm you crazed apes and hopefully speed up evolution. thanks eric.
I stopped feeling sorry for this guy.

 

[Teacher]

Originally Posted by Sator

I like it too. It reminds me of this tie:

I think it would work well with morning dress.

I wouldn't wear it with morning dress...too casual for my taste. Morning dress, as utilized nowadays (at least in the US), is extremely formal. Nevertheless, that's a great pic. Who is it?

Originally Posted by Sator

Actually, this is excellent advice for you Eric. I join those who have wished you well but SF and AAAC are the wrong audience for your collars. Face it, you'd be better off trying to sell us starched detachable collars.

Well, I think only a couple around here would actually buy them...but then, that proves your point, doesn't it?!

 

[Teacher]

Originally Posted by acidicboy

After reading this:



I stopped feeling sorry for this guy.

In all fairness, SF members swung first, and they swung hard.

 

[Teacher]

Originally Posted by Jared

Solaris (done well):

I haven't seen Solaris. It appears as if there is a scene in which George Clooney masturbates while watching PeeWee's Playhouse?

 

[Sator]

Originally Posted by Teacher

Nevertheless, that's a great pic. Who is it?


Hint:

I wrote Tod in Venedig.

 

[Sander]

Originally Posted by Sator

Hint:

I wrote Tod in Venedig.

Aaah, you just prevented me from showing off by saying that I knew who that was...
Well, just for the record: I do.

 

[Infrasonic]

Right click;properties will get you the same result....

 

[xchen]

You know what, I bet if Jason released a shirt like this on Thick as Thieves we'd all be a bit more willing to consider it. We wouldn't buy it, but we'd probably at least take it more seriously and not turn it into the laughing stock of the century. Unfortunately, the chuckles directed in Eric Glennie's direction are his own fault. His website is terrible and his reputation is laughable. When you put up those awful 1980's glamour shots on your website with those terrible Goodwill suits and ties, how can you expect to be taken seriously. I once met a lady exactly like him. They actually believe in what they are doing, but yet are so far off that to everyone else it is a bad joke. I would liken it to seeing a dog get run over repeatedly: you know you can't do anything about it, but you kind of just keep on watching (not happily or anything). The lady I knew was putting together a magazine for the "high class" but the grammar was awful and the graphics looked like something al-Jazeera would put out, all blurry around the edges.

All that said, I didn't think the lady with the African magazine deserved a break, and I sure as hell don't think Eric Glennie deserves a break. Everything he has done and said in this thread would have earned him nice kicking ********** where I live.

 

[Joel_Cairo]

Originally Posted by xchen

the graphics looked like something al-Jazeera would put out, all blurry around the edges.

I really think you are underestimating the production values of Al-Jazeera. It isn't some clip-art samizdat broadcast you know, its an international, multi-billion dollar cable franchise. There's Al-Jazeera Sports, Al-Jazeera English. etc. It's just as slick as CNN, BBC or Fox.

 

[Patrick06790]

Originally Posted by eric glennie

...does this calm you crazed apes and hopefully speed up evolution. thanks eric.

I like this flourish. A little Hunter S. Thompson-y. Watch the galloping adverbs, though, E-Man.

 

[Merckx]

Originally Posted by eric glennie

looks like a spread collar to me. please enlighten me on the diffence between a cutaway and spread collar. I would like to get the expert point of view.

Originally Posted by eric glennie

hello joel cairo! i appreciate your point of view and these collars arent for everyone. my collars are about looking different in a crowd. the psyche of the man's wardrobe is to run with pack and look the same. obviously , you are happy wearing the same penguin suit as everyone else which is fine. please enlighten me your definition of cut-away collar.

Originally Posted by eric glennie

thanks gentlemen for all your lovely responses. if you can get your genitalia out of your heads and knuckles out from dragging in the sand, i hope you might like the newest designs i posted on my website www.ericglennie.com. tell me what you think about my side-bar collars, rear-bar collars , and spliced neckties. does this calm you crazed apes and hopefully speed up evolution. thanks eric.


Nice. Arrogance and condescension, good combination. You'll go far.

 

[imageWIS]

Originally Posted by Merckx

Nice. Arrogance and condescension, good combination. You'll go far.

Not to mention those God-awful designs and a 5th rate website to boot!

Jon.

 

[Tarmac]

how many times do we have to say this - The NBA plus Michael Irvin is your only hope. But you can make big bucks this way. To sell an atrocious collar custom shirt in size 18X46, you could charge $300 for a shirt like that.