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Serving This Generation’s ‘Tweener’
Cool // October 22, 2015

Men between 20 and 30. Rising professionals. Refined sense of fashion. That’s this generation’s “tweener” and emerging retail opportunity. Max Schmidt, co-founder of 1701 Bespoke, is that person, and says that his retail model is very much a “tweener” too: in between the personalization of...

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InStitchu Notches $2.5 Million Investment

February 26, 2018
To allow it to focus more on the customer side of the business, tailored suit startup InStitchu has taken a $2.5 million investment from clothing manufacturer Dayang Group, Techcrunch reported. The purpose of the investment was to strengthen ties with Dayang, according to InStitchu Co-CEO James Wakefield. “We’re in a fortunate position where we didn’t need the […]