Pick Me Up

Today was by far the biggest moment for us as Rude Etiquette to date! We finally have our physical shirts in hand! The feeling I had when I picked up those shirts was one of triumph; there are honestly fewer moments in my life, if any, that I am more proud of than today. Thanks in large part to Bihn and Season Screen Printing! He did an amazing job and we will hopefully continue our ventures together! We also got lucky and found a beautiful day to do our mini-lookbook shoot at Golden Gate Park! We got help from our friend Susanne who did an amazing job taking our pictures. We're currently going through them and narrowing them down. And Frank is fixing them up so we can put it up on our website for all of you to see! We should have some teaser pictures up soon and the whole mini-lookbook soon after.

So...with shirts officially in hand, we will start getting those free shirts out to the FFFCampaign winners ASAP. And please support your local brand and purchase one of these amazing shirts from us! Please send an email to sales@rudeetiquette.com with your shirt(s) requests!

Get Gooder
-D_Rude

(quick note: The V-Neck's apparently do not come in a women's size, so the women's sizes will be in a men's and as follows: XXS = S, XS = M, S = L. The first size is in men's and the second is women's. They still look awesome! Just ask Ali Rude : ) )

Current Stock List

Here is the current stock list of our shirts. We don't have the shirts yet, so any order until we get them is basically going to be a pre-order. (These do not include the shirts that were won in the First Fifteen Free Campaign)

Men's Sizes:
Small: 3

Medium: 4

Large: 4

Women's Sizes:

Small: 4

Medium: 6

Large: 3

Men's Sizes:

Small: 4

Medium: 6

Large: 4

Women's Sizes:

Small: 2

Medium: 7

Large: 2

To order, please send an email to sales@rudeetiquette.com provide us with which shirt(s) you want, what size in men's or women's, your full name, contact information and your address. We will not necessarily mail it to you if you are local and just hand deliever it : ). We will try our best to ship to orders that are not local, but the fact that we have no form of online payment yet makes it a little difficult to complete the transactions. In this case, we will contact you and try to figure out some way to get you your shirt and a payment method.

As you can tell, sizes are limited!!! There are only about 50 shirts left! So don't waste time on being a part of history!!!

Get Gooder

-D_Rude

THANK YOU!!!

Thank you to everybody that participated in our First Fifteen Free Campaign! We are all surprised how fast everybody responded! We will be contacting those that added us in time to get a free shirt soon about how they will be getting their shirts! And if you missed adding us in time, PLEASE STILL ADD US! Your support is very important to us! You can still purchase a shirt(s) from us for only $25! (Ordering information can be seen in an earlier post down below, or you can email us at info@rudeetiquette.com if you have any questions). Thank you again for all the support! Keep checking back at www.rudeetiquette.com for what we're up to and look out for a semi-lookbook we will have for The Inauguration Collection!

Get Gooder
D_Rude

First & Fifteenth...

First Fifteen Free Campaign

So we couldn't wait any longer for our cool announcement! With our shirts in production (we're expecting to have them in hand sometime over the weekend or early next week!) we came up with a plan to celebrate and thank you for all your moral support. We all have great friends and family who have given us encouraging words for our venture with Rude Etiquette. I personally cannot believe how much support I have recieved and how fast this is all going! Rude Etiquette is definitely something that has been in my mind for quite some time now and I'm so excited that it has finally come to life!

SO...

THE FIRST FIFTEEN FREE CAMPAIGN is something I thought of to get people excited and to show our love! It's basically this: the first fifteen people who add our Rude Etiquette facebook page (it hasn't been made public yet so don't try adding now! Haha) will recieve a free shirt! Sweet deal right?! You get to pick between the two shirts below that we have decided will be apart of The Inauguration Collection.

(This is our Logo Copper Wheel tee. It has our bike logo on the front with copper wheels and a small copper bike on the back with Rude Etiquette over it)

(This is the San Francisco V-Neck, it says Rude Etiquette on the front and San Francisco underneathe. Right next to it is our bike logo with tan wheels. On the back is our "R" logo with a flag underneathe it with "MMX" in it in tan, which stands for 2010)

The shirts come in both Men and Women sizes, Small, Medium and Large. They are printed on American Apparel t-shirts, so please request your size according to those fits. The campaign will not officially be put into effect until Thursday or Friday (I haven't decided yet, although I am leaning toward Thursday). But I thought I'd make the announcement so that you all can see the shirts we have and can decide which one you want :).

Instructions for requesting your shirt:

When you make the friend request, please include a message that cites which shirt you want, either the Copper Wheel tee or the San Francisco tee, and your size in either a men's or a women's. Please add your contact information and your address and please mention if we can personally deliver the shirt to you so we can do just that when we get the shirts! We will announce when we have reached our 15 and stop the campaign. If you added us and you were after the 15, we'll send you a message kindly letting you know you didn't make the cut :(. BUT STILL PLEASE ADD US so that you're kept in the loop with everything Rude Etiquette! We didn't only make 15 shirts! You can still purchase them from us for only $25!

The ordering process will be a little bit more difficult than we intended it to be. As of right now, we have to sell the shirts hustler style, which basically means on foot. We are in the process of getting a seller's permit and setting up a Paypal so you guys can order our shirts online. But, we know that as a start up brand, most of our customers are our friends and family, so most of you will in one way or another be able to contact us personally. So, if you do want to place an order, please do not facebook message us personally or email to our personal emails. Please send your order requests to sales@rudeetiquette.com. If and when you order a shirt, please include contact information and your address, so that we can figure out how to get the shirt to you (it may also benefit us to know which one of us you know, so that we know which one of us can deliver it to you :) ). If you are a friend/customer that lives/attends school outside of the Bay Area, we may be able to mail you the shirt, and we'll have to figure out the payment process for that. (This may sound contradictory I know) DO contact us personally through facebook, email, text etc. AFTER you place your order and we can confirm that we still have your size and style in stock, and so that we can figure out how to get the shirt(s) to you.

If you have any further questions please email us at info@rudeetiquette.com! Thanks again for all the love and support! We're excited to get our shirts out there and see all of you wearing them!

Get Gooder,

D_Rude

http://www.rudeetiquette.com/

HAPPY NEW YEAR! (The Rude Revolution)

Happy Lunar New Year! Gung Hey Fat Choi!

It's the Year of the Tiger by the way...why not start off the new year with TWO shirts in production and a simple but LEGIT new website???

check it: www.rudeetiquette.com

It's really only a link to this blog...but it'll hold it down until we get a full blown site going! Keep a close eye on your facebooks for a chance to get some shirts and start the Rude Revolution!

Getting Gooder since MMX
-D_Rude

Big Moves...

February 13, 2010

Turns out today was a big day for Rude Etiquette. Yesterday we got in contact with a local screen printer and got the best quote we have gotten to date. (He also does the shirts for True!) We decided to jump on the deal and get our first shirts out there! We went down today to get the graphics right and put down a depost; and in the process we learned alot from the screen printer. Hopefully within a week we'll have our first shirts in our hands and ready to share with the world!!!! We're all so excited right now!

We also jumped on securing a domain name for a website...so now we officially have http://www.rudeetiquette.com/, which we are currently working on! It's all coming together for us and hopefully it is just the beginning of something bigger!

BIG THINGS IN 2010!

HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!

Get Gooder
-D_Rude

Getting To Know The Rudes: D_Rude

Name: Daryn “Captain” Rude a.k.a D_Rude

Age: 21

Position: Visionary/Co-Founder

What is Rude Etiquette (to you)?: Rude Etiquette is my answer to what I want to do in life. It is the answer to my feeling of never wanting to work for anybody and not wanting a desk job. It is my creative outlet that I can share with my friends and can hopefully take me around the world with them.

Describe your personal style: Urban with some Scene, a touch of Americana and a bit of laziness.

What inspires it?: Music is usually my source of inspiration, but the more I research fashion and style, what I discover (i.e. fashion designers, new brands, eras in history) begins to play more of a role in my outfits.

What’s your favorite brand?: The Brooklyn Circus

What’s your favorite article of clothing (or the one you wear most) and why?: As of late, my Brooklyn Circus denim jacket. It is a perfect fit for me and it spruces up any outfit.

Personal statement (say anything you want here about the brand, life, the world etc.): If you don’t make moves, all you’ll be doing is standing there. As I grow older, I’m finally starting to make moves and the world I’ve been hiding from is looking pretty good.

Getting To Know The Rudes: Ali Rude

Name: Ali Rude

Age: 19

Position: Women's wear/ Co-founder

What is Rude Etiquette (to you)?: an adventure to share n:our fashionable message to everyone out there who's sick of dealing with the department store limitations. a brand that allows anyone at any age to become whoever they want in their own personal style.

Describe your personal style: expressive, romantic, a way of sharing my creative perspective to the public on an everyday basis

What inspires it?: music, art, generations; pulling different styles out of different time periods to combine it all in a messed up time capsule

What’s your favorite brand?: Vintage

What’s your favorite article of clothing (or the one you wear most) and why?: used to be my grandmothers riding boots, but i loved them so much that they had to officially retire, now its a turquoise ring that i found in a stash of my mothers old jewelery from the '70's!

Personal statement (say anything you want here about the brand, life, the world etc.):Never be afraid of expressing your individuality, because you don't want to look back on a life that you put limitations on.

Getting To Know The Rudes: Frankly Rude

Name: Frankly Rude

Age: 23

Position: Creative Director/Co-Founder

What is Rude Etiquette (to you)?: It's a brand, friendship, journey, experiences, creative, dream, and much much more.

Describe your personal style: An evolving style or styles.

What inspires it?: The world from different point of views.

What’s your favorite brand?: RVCA

What’s your favorite article of clothing (or the one you wear most) and why?: Jeans. Nice pair(s) are easy to just throw on and look good with anything.

Personal statement (say anything you want here about the brand, life, the world etc.): Live without limits. Make your life the way you want it.

Meeting of The Rudes: February 8, 2010

We squeezed in a Rude meeting with our ever growing busy schedules and we made quite a bit of progress. As you can see from the image above, Frankly Rude has been a bit busy knocking out a wholelotta concepts. We had the meeting with the intent on picking two shirts that we felt were strong enough to make the cut for our first batch of shirts. And I'm happy to report that we did! We almost unanimously chose one of the shirts and made a few modifications on it. The second was a bit more difficult; but we put our Rude minds together and essentially combined 2 shirts we had and made one that we are all proud of! We have to gather some more information and some quotes on how much it is going to be to get these shirts out there, but hopefully they'll be out there soon! We also have an awesome plan to start getting the shirts out there...so not to give too much away...keep your eyes posted on your facebooks ; ).

Get Gooder
-Daryn

Rude Etiquette Team

...Not Just Another F.A.D....

Get Gooder
-Daryn

Some Dim Sum Fun...

On the suggestion of Ali Rude...we headed across the street from our FxC shoot to ABC Restaurant where we ate some dim sum. It was also the first time Frankly Rude ate dim sum at a restaurant! : )



(Frank's favorite! BBQ Pork Bun!) (Fried Sesame Dumplings! MAN UP!) MmMmMm...it was gooooood...perfect amount : )


Get Gooder
-Daryn

(OH! And we saw MARTIN YAN of YAN CAN COOK at the restaurant! But, we were too chicken to get a picture with him :[ )

Not So Candid Camera

Today the Rudes went to Foster City for a mini photoshoot. Why you ask? Well...because I want to do a little profile piece on each of us so that the world gets to know us a little better. If we have learned anything from the retail world, it's that it is the connection with customers that makes any brand worth while. I like to visit the BKc shop because I feel like I'm more than just a customer to the guys there. And, we were made to feel like home by the Black Scale guys when we stopped by their shop. None of us enjoy walking into a store where they feel belittled or ignored. And although we are "the Rudes", we want to be a brand that is approachable.

So, we headed to Foster City a bit early because I read that there were going to be PM showers today; and of course, the weather ended up being quite beautiful! We walked Leo J. Ryan Park and took advantage of the beautiful waterfront scenery. And seeing as how my Canon SD 750 is shit, Ali Rude let us use her Nikon D50 to capture our amazing day together! (side note: I'm a shitty photographer :(...most of the good pictures you'll see were taken by either Frankly or Ali Rude)

(BANG! BANG! BANG!)


(we love California)

(there were a TON of pictures...but because we used Ali Rude's Nikon, I had to find a way to view the pictures on my computer, then find a way to convert the pics from NEF's to JPEG's...and THAT took forever. So, there are more pics and we'll post more in our personal profiles that will be up soon.)

Get Gooder

-Daryn