What Are These Monkeys Doing Starting A Clothing Company? Only Time Will Tell...

DressMonkey is the pet project of two 24 year-old males, currently living in Shanghai and San Diego. What started in 2003 as separate individual pursuits for a deeper understanding of the ways in which international business and cultures collide quickly transgressed into one mutually intoxicating love/hate relationship with their jobs, fashion and all things Chinese.

One worked as an IT consultant for a Fortune 500 company where he spent 12 hours a day behind a computer punching in numbers for field data queries with machine-like efficiency and eating KFC for lunch everyday. The other worked as a business development manager for a Chinese logistics company where he not only was oddly treated like royalty simply for being the only foreigner in the organization but also witnessed quite possible every single fashion faux pas known to man (or, in this case, only known to Westerners) thanks to his colleagues.

Finally, one day in early 2006, the highly overworked and underpaid consultant and the culturally confused and fashionably frustrated BD manager quit their jobs and decided to start a company that addressed what they felt had become a growing need in this world for young professionals like themselves: the creation of a more respected and fashionably-dressed “office monkey.” Alas, DressMonkey was born.