Arcs_Of_A_Jar

Hi Abe,

I have a question about supply and demand. Every so often (read: always), Outlier releases a particular article of clothing that almost immediately sells out in a particular colorway and size. The biggest victims of this I've seen so far are the gray woolback gilet and non-black 3-way shorts, but they've also happened to almost every other item you have in inventory. I can't imagine that nobody in the company has no idea of which colorway will probably be the most popular. Is the limitation on product runs a natural result of the process you undergo to create your stock, or is there an intentional limitation on some level or another? Outlier is positioned relatively uniquely as all-weather clothing, so I can't imagine seasons have an exceptionally high impact.

Finally the mills always have minimums on how much you can order. So even if we could calibrate precisely the color break down we need to order based on the minimums and roll sizes. That means there almost always will be colors we have to order a bit more than we want and sometimes ones we need to order a bit less.

This makes a lot of sense in retrospect, it's just unfortunate that it happens. Thanks for the answers, here's hoping cashflow goes up enough that we can start seeing some better inventory numbers this year. :D