Tailor Archive
Thread: whats the most overdone outfit?
Tokklyym wrote: (Can anyone point me to a Decorative Vest in any of the films?)
not for lack of looking beleive me.
I had to defend my choice of collecting the padded vests with the fact they were in movie, since noone beleived I wanted em for fashion, so I know stills and screenies that are in nooks and crannies and I still haven't found the Decorative vest.
And there are few who want to scream it is Anakin's Vest but it isn't, not by far, really...
ziontrain wrote:
I am going through Tailor right now, one thing I have noticed is there are so many interesting clothes, yet everybody seems to be wearing the same thing! Come on people!
Yeah, I get this a lot. I tend to make a point of walking into cantinas and so on with a icvely impressive outfit... something like Grand Twi'lek Headpiece, Tactical Skinsuit, Decorative Vest in black and a really bright trim colour. So, I'm pretty used to "Wow, that looks GREAT! Can you make be a black (extremely revealing skirt and metal bra / neo-from-the-matrix / something all the people around me are wearing) outfit?"
Three days ago, a dancer even sent me a /tell asking me to design her an outfit. She said she wanted something 'really unusual and sexy'. So, I suggested something a bit more leather/industrial (I forget what, but it involved an open jacket with no shirt for that full tease effect) and got "Ewww.. I was thinking more like an extremely revealing skirt thing."
Whatchagonnado?
Edited cos WOOHOO! My 100th post!
Message Edited by Vesobe on 03-14-2005 05:13 PM
Aynianu wrote:
Weird this black thing...
On Valcyn i could probably have just stocked black clothing and gotten away with it.
On Farstar im not sure if black is even my most popular colour, i stock all colours, and all sell well
In some items (such as boots) black is deffinatly the biggest seller.
But items like bustiers and skirts dont really sell in black too well,
BE items sell best in black, but i often get custom orders for BE items from the many who want different colours.
pink?
Pappi wrote:
there are a few clothing items that seems to be really popular:
dusters (usually black)
extremely revealing skirt (walk into a cantina, probably half the girls, especialy the afk ones, will be wearing it)
sunguard (although I don't blame them as much, it's the best headwear for most species)
pretty much anything all black is overdone... it just drives me nuts! normal people don't wear all black irl, does it hurt to wear *some* colors?
Oreet wrote:
I'd say my biggest selling item would be this:
Black Formfitting Undershirt
+4 Melee Defense
+18 Defense vs. Stun
I've been slowly establishing myself as the leading Bio-Engineering Tailor on my server. When I started as a Tailor, I had no desire to make BE clothing. But I receive so many orders requesting BE'ed stuff, that I figured instead of avoiding BE clothing, I should just embrace it, and be the best I can be.
These shirts are GREAT money makers. I sell them at 20k a piece. And when I buy my tissues at 8k-9k per tissue, that's a HUGE amount of profit I make off these shirts. Since black seems to be the only color anyone wants, I waste one of the tissues out of the crate of making a factory schematic, and I just mass-produce crates of these shirts.
After the Melee/Stun Formfitting Undershirts, i'd have to say that my next best seller is:
Thin Striped Pants (or is it slacks /shrug)
+25 Injury/Wound Treatment
I sell these at 50k a piece, and they sell very well too.
As far as non BE'ed clothing goes, Hooded Cloaks (up and down) and Paramilitary Cammo pants sell very well.
Also, another popular BE item is this:
Paramilitary Camo Pants
+4 Melee Defense
+18 Defense vs. Stun
+17 Injury/Wound Treatment
Usually sell these at 50k as well.
(amazing how much better items sell when you change the name)
Sakura-Ikari wrote:
it's amazing how different prices are on different servers. I could never sell one item of clothes for 50k (except maybe the jabba's themepark dancer leotard). amazing
Lowca only has 2 or 3 Master Bio-Engineers that I know of, and only one of them keeps a well stocked vendor. Luckily, I am very good friends with her. I'm her personal protection when she's out gathering DNA. Her prices are great on BE tissues. When i buy a crate of tissues, it runs me anywhere from 8k - 10k per tissue (depending on the cost of her organics used to make the tissues). So a pair of melee/stun/injury/wound paramilitary cammos would cost me 1 melee/stun tissue and 2 injury/wound tissues to make, so right there is 30k just for tissue costs.
honestly though, i've gotten many compliments at my extremely low prices for BE clothing. apparently on Lowca, i could double my prices of melee/stun, injury/wound, and warcry/intimidate items and i'd still be able to sell them. but i am happy sellingmy stuff for the prices listed above.
i usually get 2 or 3 emailed orders per day, and have at least 3-5 vendor sales of BE items a day lately, so people seem happy with my pricing structure. (speaking of which, i think i need to restock my BE vendor tonight.)
the reason i can charge prices like this is that the customer feedback i've been getting, is that there are very few well established reliable tailors on Lowca, so i get TONs of referral business. one person will order an item or 2, then suddenly i start getting tells/emails from several of his/her friends looking for stuff as well. lowca has a similar problem when it comes to Architects. there is a severe shortage of Architects on Lowca as well. there are a few around, but Madi is pretty much the only one that anyone goes to to buy stuff. she's been in business for over a year now, and everyone seems to know to go to her for their structure and furniture needs. i hope to someday have that sort of reputation in the Tailoring business.