Million Dollar Collar

My Collar Company Hit the $1M Milestone [Update]

Rob Kessler
$40K
revenue/mo
3
Founders
0
Employees
Million Dollar Co...
from Atlanta, GA, USA
started March 2013
$40,000
revenue/mo
3
Founders
0
Employees
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I’m Rob Kessler, the inventor of Million Dollar Collar placket stays and the co-founder of goTIELESS, the only shirt designed to be worn without a tie. After viewing my beach wedding photos and being disappointed in my shirt, I vowed to create a fix. Ironing and scratch just don’t last, and no amount of interfacing inside of the shirt can prevent the weight of the collar from collapsing the placket of a casually worn dress shirt.

Most men, most of the time, wear their dress shirts without a tie but still want to look good, which is why they put on a dress shirt in the first place. So I took the idea of a collar stay, made it 9” long, and shoved it down the front of the shirt where the buttons and holes are. This gives much-needed reinforcement to prevent the dreaded collar collapse. It took 3 years and 100 ruined shirts to patent and perfect the material that is Million Dollar Collar.

We just completed our 8th year of sales, and we hit a couple of milestones. 2024 has opened the door to some very big conversations. We are now just a year or two away from being...

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