Here at DressMonkey, two things are certain: we will be selling blazers eventually, and we like the show Arrested Development (RIP). Thus, you'll likely see many Gob references, chicken dance innuendos, and George Michael quotes interlaced into our blog entries about blazers. This blog entry is no exception. In the same way that Gob plays the song, "The Final Countdown" by Europe before his failed attempts at magic, we will be using this as our theme song for Meet My Monkey 3, only our magic will work. Sounds like the same cheesy line Gob would say... OK, enough. I won't mention the show for the rest of the entry.

So, down to business. For those of you who have seen our last Meet My Monkey failures and later successes, this concept may be a little familiar to you. If not, I'll explain a little about this process. Basically, Jeff and I are planning on selling blazers after we've gotten all production details hashed out.. (well, I hope you gathered that from the blog, but if you didn't you aren't alone....we're fixing it up to make it a little bit more obvious what the point of the site actually is) But before we can sell you blazers, we want to make sure our products and our ordering system actually work. You don't want to buy crap and we don't want to sell it, so we've been conducting a series of tests on all things supply chain, and now, we've reached the final element of our supply chain to be tested, importing and exporting. We know we can make the products, but must test all of our research, Chinese partners, factories, and everyone else involved in DressMonkey to ensure that they can actually handle normal order volumes. We're going to do this in the form of a dumbed down retail website, which will eventually be replaced with a pretty and upgraded one. But the point is, you will have the opportunity to have your own blazer out of this. We're going to be taking orders online, and you can purchase from us just the same way you would at any other online retail site (only we'll save you some money...). Our target for the MMM3 time-line is only 1 month (starting Nov. 1st), so if your in the market for a good fitting, nice blazer, maybe hold on a little bit until we're live.

But this MMM3 isn't going to be easy. Adam, Jeff, and I are going to be extremely busy over the next month in an effort to get all the buttons, packaging, reporting, tags, etc in order before we sell. If we're going to simulate an order cycle, everything needs to be as it would be in actual production and that's what we're going to do. So everything you've been reading about, for however long you've been reading about it in regards to our blazers could be yours...soon.

More on our progress as it happens. I'll be posting almost exclusively on this push for the next month, as I suspect my fellow monkeys will be as well.

Ok, its bed time in Shanghai, only 1 month till my hero makes his debut.