No, I'm not getting married, for once Jeff is actually closer to that than I am, with someone far hotter than your girlfriend. My love life now consists of DressMonkey and ordering-in. But it's all gravy (do people still say that?), we're going gangbusters here at DM HQ! We've had a recent spike in orders following the post-Christmas lull, probably due to the flood of press we've just been getting.

I'm more than excited, because we've got a few great articles written about us and also the fact that we just completed ANOTHER wedding order. The suits came out great, and I hope that he's as satisfied as I was to measure and generally admire the fabric and craftsmanship of that there order. I can't wait to see pictures of all the spiffy grooms all done up, and hopefully that will mean we are that much closer to formally launching our wedding line. Right now we are sort of ad-hoc with that process, fielding orders only when they approach us, but I feel that with the success of this order, you'll start to see some new changes around here at DM, notably wedding offerings but finally we'll expedite the release of our pants line. You asked for it, we're responding and hopefully we'll have them up soon, but no timetables yet gang.

Things are all swell here in Shanghai, I'm starting to really enjoy the single life here, now I know what people keep talking about when they refer to Shanghai as sin city. Also, you'd be surprised how efficient one can be without a girlfriend. I have developed a complex algorithm that I'd like to impart on all of you with a ball and chain:

Man + Girlfriend + Full Time Job/Own Business = Inefficiency + Stress
Man + Full Time Job/Own Business = Efficiency + Freedom

That formula will change lives, bank on it.

In other news, we've got a whole new line of Bamboo fabrics that we'll be publishing by the end of the week. I'm excited to announce these, its been a long time coming and they are finally getting published online. I'm now struggling with uploading all this to our server, and it being in the US causes slow-load problems because of China's less than awesome network speeds. What I would give to go back to Switzerland or Japan where files download or upload faster than you can even realize you clicked submit.

We've got a great new employee named Xiao Pu (don't laugh at the name) who helps me with quality control. I head hunted him from our previous factory and he knows the DM 101 better than anyone as he helped develop our original line of blazers during MMM3, MMM2B, and even MMM back in the day. He's great, and your jackets will look that much better now that he's on board.

Thats it from me, hope all is well!