{"id":17066,"date":"2017-05-05T18:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T22:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=17066"},"modified":"2017-05-05T18:00:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T22:00:43","slug":"comfort-zone-james-comfort-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/comfort-zone-james-comfort-08\/","title":{"rendered":"Comfort Zone: James Comfort \u201908"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Clemson<\/a>Growing up the third of four boys, hand-me-downs were a natural part of life for James Comfort. \u201cWe just never really went out shopping too often,\u201d he said. \u201cThere were always plenty of clothes around.\u201d
\nComfort said finding clothes got really difficult just out of college when he had to start looking for professional clothing. Big and tall stores offered the length he liked, but the 2X and up sizing didn\u2019t fit his athletic frame. \u201cThere wasn\u2019t just a \u2018tall\u2019 store,\u201d he said.
\nBut a few years ago when the 6-foot-5-inch tall and lean Comfort found a shirt that fit \u2014 really fit \u2014 with long sleeves and a slim torso, he wanted more. He set out to bring that fit to fellow tall men so they wouldn\u2019t be left looking like they were wading in a pool of fabric two sizes too wide. After working his day job at an IT consulting firm out of Philadelphia, Comfort would come home and work on designs. Leveraging what he knew of business and his background working part-time in a T-shirt shop in college, Comfort was able to use the overseas market to his advantage.
\nAfter finding the high quality fabrics he loved through shows in New York, Comfort used an overseas producer to make his designs become an inventory of polos and laid-back plaids so men had options for work and play.
\n\u201cOne of the \u2018un-successes\u2019 came during one of the first productions,\u201d Comfort said about the trial and error of doing production in China. \u201cThey changed out the collar type on me, and it wasn\u2019t the quality I\u2019d set out to provide.\u201d Comfort used friends and family to try his product and get the word out, even shipping product to family in Germany to sell at markets frequented by soldiers. Comfort\u2019s shirts were also placed in a store in his hometown of Morris, Illinois, this past winter.
\n\u201cFortunately it\u2019s not too big yet,\u201d said Comfort of his mostly online sales model. \u201cIt\u2019s manageable, I want to make sure that I do it slowly so I\u2019m able to adapt and grow as needed.\u201d
\nCurrently bins throughout his home and basement are filled with product, and he spends his evenings filling orders from his dining room table. \u201cIt\u2019s a good feeling when you get something you really like,\u201d he said.
\n\u2014 Julia Sellers<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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