Testimonials - We Need Them And We Receive Them Graciously

One day soon I will die, by soon I hope it will be 45 years, but in the scheme of the billions of years our planet has existed, I mean really soon. And all that I will leave behind will be some digital photography and some ties in people's drawers and as they get old, so too may their collection of bow ties if they don't look after them. Then one day, some day, I will be a period piece and somebody will rummage through 'The Old Internet' and discover some wonderful portraits of our customers and they will somehow think that this represented the manner in which people of a sub-sect of society dressed in that period. And, maybe, some historian will use a cache of the images somewhere and in turn it will become a minor exhibition within a larger exhibition which talks of the early days of the internet... I might be getting away from myself but stranger things have transpired. I mean to say, there was an exhibit in the city of Sydney of 1920's gangster mug shots, why not our images? Our portraits might be just as alluring in years to come to people who want to hob nob around a museum one lazy Saturday.

And so the point of it all is that our images are not enough. Just like my favourite Instagram handles that I follow, the best of them are always a mix of pictures and vignettes, well crafted and thought out, to add some background and story to the image to really romance us.

Those same words, when applied to our products, obviously help the customer on the other side of the world decide that we really are who we say we are. And the honour, it seems, is that because we wrote a blog that attempts to talk about matters in an attempted high-brow manner, when our customers write in, they often seem just as high-brow and with an even great eloquence than the author of this blog. How can you tell an American that a little Studio in Sydney really does make the best luxury satin silk bow ties around, or that we offer the best quality woven jacquard silks from the best looms in Europe? The simple answer is, you get another American to tell them in their own words.

In short, we love your testimonials, keep sending them in. :)