I have just been through what is probably the most grueling and intensive marathon of a day for DressMonkey yet. But the crazy part was that I loved every second of it. Below I describe just a slice of a day in the life of starting a custom-blazer company.

After getting everyone's measurements in last night and this morning, I started noticing a discrepency in some of the returned results. All of the people that I had given my measuring tapes to (i..e, from the tailor) were giving me really small measurements, whenI in fact knew that some were pretty large guys. I kept going over it in my mind and had no idea how some smaller guys were coming in at larger measurements. I decided to go to the tailor to figure out what might be wrong. Low and behold, he had given me measuring tape for "Chinese inches," (寸). But the annoying part of the story is that I had no idea that there was a difference between Chinese inches and the inches that the rest of the "civilized" world uses (英寸). Neither did anyone else I talked to, except of course the tailor which might have been a little bit more helpful YESTERDAY!!!!! We're using inches to try and test the factory, but in reality it ended up testing me becasue I had to go out and re-measure everyone tonight, through the rain, on my bike, ALL OVER SHANGHAI. Did I have to do this tonight? No, not really. But if DressMonkey is going to be ready to sell in a few months, we can't afford to have such a dumbass oversight delay us, and it would have. So, I re-measured everyone, most people in their apartments but one in the middle of a restaurant (in China people don't seem to mind this much apparently), and all of which took around 3 hours during on and off rain. DressMonkey dedication....