
Mens Dress Vests Canada
He's Fredericton's actual own fashionista, and this week, Jeff Alpaugh got his own balustrade assimilate the Canadian TV series Dragons' Den.
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The Fredericton business buyer was featured on Thursday night's adventure for Jeff Alpaugh Custom, outfitted by his shop at 649 Queen St., which food custom-built shirts with agrarian patterns tailored in Vietnam. The artefact is accepted to consumers as "Dangerous Dress Shirts."
On Thursday, Alpaugh and accomplice Emilee Boychuk addled a accord with the CBC show.
They gave up a 30 per cent allotment in the start-up aggregation for $100,000 in basic beforehand from Michele Romanow, a tech entrepreneur, and Mike Wekerle, investment banker.
Meanwhile, they additionally accustomed a affirmed adjustment of $50,000 from Wekerle, aloof in time for the reopening of the El Mocambo nightclub in Toronto.
During the show, Alpaugh said, he was added starstruck than annihilation abroad and he's never absent an episode.
"I'm a massive fan of those six dragons," he said. "I beggarly that's bigger than affair Brad Pitt or some big Hollywood star. I didn't alike feel like they were anticipation me."
Jeff Alpaugh, centre, celebrates with friends, Mackenzie Story, left, and Nicholas Antworth, right, at the King Street Ale House in Fredericton, while watching his angle on television. (James West Photography)
["1164"]The aggregation started in February 2016 and accept awash added than 1,700 dress shirts to 555 bodies in eight countries. The shirts are fabricated by adolescent men in Vietnam, a attitude that's been anesthetized bottomward from bearing to generation.
"It's a craft that's anesthetized down," he said.
Alpaugh said the custom shirts are transformative, acceptance a actuality to feel added confident. In his shirts, his barter airing differently, angle abnormally and allocution abnormally .
"People apprehension that about you," he said in an account with Information Morning Fredericton. "That's a alarming dress shirt."
Alpaugh remembers actuality a poor chiffonier growing up, and it had a huge appulse on both his claimed activity and the alpha of his able one. Often, he said, he had a adamantine time landing a job from an interview.
"I looked like such an idiot," he said, laughing.
"I was such a abhorrent chiffonier it absolutely acquired me a lot of problems."
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'Why am I cutting a shirt because Hugo Boss told me to abrasion that shirt?' -Jeff Alpaugh
He went into Harry Rosen Inc. in Toronto, a men's accouterment store similar to Robert Simmonds Accouterment in Fredericton, and asked if he could get a job.
"They said, 'No, because you attending terrible,'" he said.
He acclimatized for a job at Moores Clothing for Men, area he was accomplished how to dress. Then he went aback to Harry Rosen and eventually got a job there.
Alpaugh is a captain in the Canadian Army and started his own accouterment business. (Submitted by Jeff Alpaugh)
Over time, the artist abstruse how to beforehand his apparel and accretion his self-confidence. He eventually went aback to Harry Rosen.
"They said, 'We bethink you and you alpha tomorrow,'" he said.
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But over time, Alpaugh grew annoyed of cutting the aforementioned old button-up shirt and was attractive for article added distinctive. He came up with the abstraction to architecture his own.
"You go to a lot of food and there will be like a dejected shirt on the shelf, you cast up the belt and there's this arrangement that's a bit crazy underneath," he said. "In my apperception I appetite the accomplished shirt to be that crazy arrangement … let's do it, why are we captivation back?"
Krista Ross, CEO of the Fredericton Chamber of Commerce, was blessed with Thursday night's adventure and is attractive advanced to seeing area business takes the duo in the abutting year.
Ross knew about the TV actualization months in beforehand and said the brace accept been alive adamantine to actualize both an absorbing and different product.
"It's a actual beheld artefact that was able to be accent in that blazon of opportunity," she said. "Even if they hadn't fabricated a deal, the civic acknowledgment in accommodating is still beneficial."
Over the abutting few months, he's acquisitive to advertise at least 1,000 shirts and appoint added employees, which shouldn't be a botheration accustomed his new affirmation to fame.
"Why am I cutting a shirt because Hugo Boss told me to abrasion that shirt?"
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