Today was by far one of the most interesting and stressful days yet. I've never been tested so much in my Chinese, simply because our designer, Adam Williams is extremely particular and doesn't speak much Chinese. Don't get me wrong, I'm very happy that he's so particular about how he wants his designer blazers made, but it can be quite difficult trying to get every single detail translated into Chinese on the spot...and we aren't going to hire a translator because frankly, we can't afford one! Thus, its on me to get all these little details into Chinese so our super tailor, Wu Xiansheng can do what he does best and craft a beautiful blazer.

Up until now, we've been establishing a system with him using a defined set of variables to combine into what will soon be our custom blazer offering. Many of the options, though unique, have all been seen and done several times by the seasoned, 72 year old master tailor. Today's creation however, had all sorts of things that were a little too new and crazy for him, so it took quite a bit of negotiation, haggling, and general convincing him that his tailors could do it. Thus, after about 2 hours of work, I think he got the point and we've now got our first DressMonkey non-custom prototype in the works. I'm interested to see if this actually is successful, if my Chinese actually translated well and he wasn't just nodding, and if you, our target audience respond well on November 1st to Adam's first of hopefully many creations.