Retail & e-commerce

Ike Behar

Menswear

[EST. 1957]

Ike Behar has been a New York shirtmaker since 1957. We’re planning one model for the line sheets, the labels and the store orders.

Scoped

[INTAKE]

Vendor intake

We’d set up each new mill or maker once, with its documents and terms. After that, Marzy would read every line sheet into the style record, from the cloth to the size run by neck and sleeve. Only what it can’t read would come back as a question.

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In discovery

[LABELS]

Compliance

A shirt's labels have to state its fiber, its origin and its care, and every store account's vendor manual adds rules for tickets and cartons. Marzy would check each style against the mill's spec, and each shipment against the account's manual, before it leaves.

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One style, checked In Mill spec Cloth · weave · care Label proof Fiber · origin · RN Account manual Tickets · cartons The check Fiber Origin Care Maker Ticket Carton Ship window Out Ready to ship Checks kept A mismatch is held for a person Every check keeps its source, beside the style
An Ike Behar crest label and a Natural stretch cotton, Made in Italy label on light blue twill.

Scoped

[ORDERS]

Store orders

Specialty stores and the brand's own shops reorder by email, phone and spreadsheet, in neck and sleeve sizes. Marzy would read each order into one record and check it against stock, size by size. It would draft the fill and the backorder for a person to approve.

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One reorder, read The email FromStore 2 ReReorder, white twill 16 / 34-35× 6 15½ / 34-35× 4 16½ / 34-35× 4 16½ / 36-37× 2 and 14 more lines The size run Neck 32/33 34/35 36/37 14½11· 1522· 15½241 16162 16½·42 17·22 17½·11 Filled: short on stock Against stock Asked34 Ships now31 Backorder3 A person approves Then the confirmation goes out One reorder, read Neck 32/33 34/35 36/37 14½11· 1522· 15½241 16162 16½·42 17·22 17½·11 Asked 34 · ships 31 · backorder 3 A person approves

The proposed desk.

The Marzy desk preparing an apparel record: it checks source details, keeps missing specifications open and holds the store order for review.

MarzyOS for menswear.

01

It arrives.

The proposed desk would take line sheets, label proofs and store reorders. Each would arrive by email or upload, in the format its sender picked.

02

Marzy reads it.

Marzy would read each value into the style, label or order for review. Missing specifications would stay open for the team to settle.

03

Marzy checks it.

The check would compare the mill’s spec, the account’s manual and the stock record. Anything in doubt would wait for a person.

04

A person signs off.

The approval, source and change would stay beside the record for later review.

New York,
1957

History

Ike Behar, the son of a tailor in Havana, came to New York in 1952 and bought his own shop in 1957.

He developed and patented the diamond-quilted collar that the shirts still carry. The business is still in the family, and its own shops are in Charleston and Washington, D.C.

Four women at sewing machines in a small shirt workroom, in black and white.

New York City, circa 1957.

Ike Behar laughing, in glasses, holding a tape measure, a shirt on a dress form behind him.

Ike Behar.

A lavender dress-shirt collar with the Ike Behar label, close up.

The diamond-quilted collar.

On film

[1988]

IKE BEHAR PROMO 1988

The IKEBEHAR channel on YouTube carries this promotional film from 1988. The button opens it in a new tab.

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Where it stands

Scoped, not built

Bring the line sheets, the vendor manuals and the order inbox. We map the work with the people who do it, build it against your own records, and show you the receipts.

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