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by analog31 1922 days ago
Congrats on the launch!

Here's a niche worth looking into: Women's attire for formal music recitals and performances. My experience is limited to being a parent of a classical music student. Every musician ends up needing a variety of outfits for performances of different kinds, and for women, a solo performance tends to demand something akin to a formal dress. Shopping for such a thing is a pain in the arse, but they'll buy one and wear it over an over if it works.

In addition to looking good, the dress has to work meaning that it can't interfere with playing an instrument or singing. Not having ever worn such a thing, I can't guess what is needed, but there are endless performance videos on YouTube of concert performers, and you can imagine that someone like Hilary Hahn has figured out what works by now.

Dresses that fit younger girls would also be a thing.

Being a male musician, I'm kind of lucky that I can get away with something that's 100% generic. I bought a used tuxedo, almost a quarter century ago, and have worn it hundreds of times. Every musician male or female, also owns a set of "concert black," which is black shirt and black pants.

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Oh also, we thought of this when we met a user on our platform asking about attire for ice skating competitions! We figured that we can also expand this to competition / performance wear like what you had mentioned. We started talking to some users who perform as ballroom dancers, pianists, etc., and they all told us how expensive these garments are and how difficult it is to find them online. Thank you so much for this recommendation, we really wanna work hard this year to expand to this fully.
This is a fantastic recommendation! Thank you :)