How the Hong Kong man about town can wear Zegna or Tom Ford and not break the bank
High-end retailer The Armoury has branched out with a website offering suits, shoes and accessories from big names in menswear at cheaper prices because they are either pre-owned, a special vintage item or not the latest product
Seven years on from opening a premium menswear shop, The Armoury’s Mark Cho and Alan See had a mission when they offered a cheaper alternative to the high-end products in their Central premises.
Drop93, an e-commerce platform launched in July, sells pre-owned, vintage, and past season menswear at a big discount to the original price tags.
“There were two major reasons why we started Drop93. The first is that we sometimes come across garments from past clients being sold at charity shops. Many of these charity shops are unwilling or don’t have the capacity to treat our bespoke goods well, and the last thing we want to see is really great quality pieces being treated this way,” Cho says. “So if we can help to find these products a better home, that would make us really happy.
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“The second reason is that we’ve been in business for seven years and have never gone on sale due to a strict pricing policy. As a result, we’ve slowly accumulated certain products that we aren’t able to sell. Drop93 is about trying to mix these two problems together and find a creative solution. It’s our way to make our ecosystem a little more complete, a little more intact.”
The name of the business derives from “Drop”, as in a supply drop because Cho is fond of military terms, and the figures “93”, which when spoken in Cantonese (gow sam), are a homonym for old clothes.
