Fashion Time Line Part 3

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2006

2006 started with me really focusing on self improvement and also focusing on my creative energies. I enrolled at Leeds College of Music so I could familiarise and learn more about music, I started going out in Leeds more on a night and generated a new circle of friends. As I was frequenting a big cosmopolitan city regularly and particularly going out a lot there I noticed what I was wearing wasn’t quite in tune. Moving from a town to a city I started noticing a lot of the guys that I came across when out were dressed differently to me, I started noticing guys that I believed were by far more stylish than myself. If improving my style wasn’t on my agenda before it certainly was now. This was reinforced when my friends and me tried to get into certain bars and clubs and got knocked back because we weren’t dressed right. Here was a group of single guys that wanted to go to the stylish places where the attractive stylish women were.

In summer that year I went away on holiday to Ibiza with one of my new friends from Leeds. Before going I wanted to update my wardrobe a little bit and went on a shopping trip with two of my girl friends to help me. Bad idea! Although I have to admit they did help me, they spent the majority of the time look for stuff for themselves, so it ended up taking me three times as long.

At the time I had a subscription to Men’s Health Magazine so I started paying attention to the style sections at the back. They used to have a page where they featured two outfits and broke down where you could get each piece. This was a big help to me and I remember cutting these pages and keeping them in a slide-in plastic wallet to keep for when I decided to buy some new clothes. I carried on checking the style sections in Men’s Health and would cut out anything that I felt looked good and ‘stylish’. My only other reference point was other guys that I’d see out and about in Leeds on a night out, if I saw someone I thought look stylish, I’d make a mental note of what it was they were wearing and what made them stylish.

By the end of 2006 I had changed my style considerably, I was now ‘aware’ of it and aware of the impact making the effort was having. Getting into the bars and clubs I wanted to go to was no longer an issue. In fact, I started to receive compliments from people I’d meet on nights out about my clothes and the way I was dressing.

I was still studying at the College of Music when attempted my first business venture. It was never planned I kind of just stumbled upon the idea. I’ve always been a fan of technology and the Internet, hence this blog. One day I was on a forum that I frequented and a girl was looking for a pink laptop. Some of the other forum users had been looking online for one for her with limited success, I posted a comment along the lines of ‘why don’t you just buy a laptop and spray paint it’. That poster later messaged me saying it was a good idea and why didn’t I look into it.

I decided to do a bit of research and found that there were only a couple of companies, both in the US that were making coloured laptops and doing laptop customisations. I found a guy that had spray-painted his own laptop using normal car paint, but the problem with that was it chipped. One of the US sites advertised that the paint they were using was a special type that bonded with the plastic thus making it un-chip able. I decided to see if it was possible to get a similar sort of paint in the UK.

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