Well, October did co eventually and Alexander finally has his moniker to encapsulate what the month is all about.
It’s more on progressing in a lot of things. The months prior had paved the way and October was more on continuing and truly growing from that built montum.
SDCC was the disseminating start, Stuffed Hobbes was the monuntal follow-up, and the next stage was clearly during this October.
In any case, October was all about progress and Progressive October is what it will be.
It isn’t as cool as Inktober and whatnot but Alexander found it fitting nonetheless.
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First on the Progressive October agenda... well, it is simply costus!
Not much surprise here. This was October and products that are appropriate for this month's activities and festivities are the way to go.
Of course, it's also no surprise that Alexander has a pretty dim view of this whole endeavor.
However, in the na of progress, he overca that dimness and just found a way to get around it.
After the whole Comic-Con experience, Alexander did take a much-needed retrospection to everything he knew about costus and costu-esque activities.
By the end of it, he found that Creed Costus could still be in business but in a specific manner wherein profitability and success could be found.
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By definition, costus are the distinctive style of dress or costics that an individual or group that reflects class, gender, profession, ethnicity, nationality, activity, or epoch.
Silly costus are actually embedded and part of culture itself.
A visual "culture" that is practiced in society. A traditional term that describes appropriate clothing for respective events or activities.
Riders need riding costu, swimrs need swimming costus, dancers needs dancing costu, and so on and so forth.
That general usage has been gradually shifted and eventually replaced by the terms such as uniforms, dress, attire, robes, and wear.
Now, the term "costu" has beco more limited to unusual or out-of-date articles of clothing. Attires that intended to evoke a change in identities, such as theatrical, Halloween, and mascot costus.
Like the market for stuffed toys, it is clear that costus do have a unique business genre for themselves.
As it turns out, with deep cultural roots, the costu business actually has so very extensively-rooted practitioners. These companies have often been in business for many decades and Alexander actually had an interesting takeaway from their insights whilst flourishing in the costu business.
For those, that are wondering what this different 'costu' business strategy is... it's a costu-catering strategy.
This is a strategy wherein the "costu-r" or "costu designer" works with clients and designs costus from scratch. They will then create original costus catering to their client's specifications.
These are the costu companies that are more specified and geared towards truly matching the client's needs.
Their continued work with these individualized clients would eventually lead them to create professional quality costus.
If it isn't clear yet... it is simply a costu business that makes bulk uniforms, work with theaters and plays, or just generally partners with film production.
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This is the type of costu company that creates mascots and general costus for film, TV, and theatrical plays.
It was totally a different retcon to the Creed Costus concept that they had wanted to do. Alexander had been doubting this direction a lot but it felt natural for their costu to head that way.
Creed is about re-inforcing various fields, so isn't it just fitting to have the entire Creed costu departnt be supplentary support to Creed Pictures and its film projects?
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The underwhelmingly-judged Creed Costus has a chance and Alexander's revamping of it was quite simple.
Creed Costus just need to go with the unusual way that other "costu companies" had undergone their businesses.
Long story short, Creed Costus was still a viable thing, and could still breathe a sigh of relief from being wiped out.
Alexander could just the entire endeavor to be axed out of existence but he ultimately decided to chop it up.
The redeeming parts to support a different endeavor... and the leftovers could still stay for what it's worth.
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Of course, this was good and all since an effective alternative is always welco.
However, with all that has been said, the original Creed Costus plan actually still stands.
The film-supplentary plan was good however, the option to go with costu sales and the whole costu business still has rit.
In this day and age, professional costu houses still rent and sell costus for the trade after all.
There are even larger costu companies that have warehouses full of costus for sale and lending to custors.
Without a doubt, costus are still a big part of Halloween and that is why Alexander and Old Sullivan knew that they couldn't miss out on it.
Selling sothing is still better than nothing.
During October and more specifically on Halloween, people can be what they want... or be what they're scared of... or just wear sothing entertaining.
Many people use Halloween as an opportunity to be what they can't or wouldn't even want to be in their normal life.
Roleplay, cosplay, and whatnot are at their peak during this fall season and Creed's costu offerings should help mix things up.
Hence, a selection of Creed-thed costus was made available to costu houses and the other costu retailing options that Creed's distribution capabilities can reach.
Of course, the selection has been dialed down from its original offerings and what remained were the costu pieces that were considerably more profitable and had potential.
Goku's new orange gi from Turtle Hermit school was expected to be the best seller but the original blue one should still have potential buyers.
Yautja Masks were in contention and also the new one should add variety to it. Granted, the new Yautja mask was a physical advertisent for the upcoming Predator story itself... so a bonus in a way.
Staying in touch with the mask operation... costu selection actually included the cursed mask from JoJo and the very chic Rorschach inkblot one. They actually offered the color-coded Turtle masked bands as well.
Of course, those were just the ones that Alexander could recall from the top of his head... as the rest were still silly accessories to him.
Oh, and there was actually the Marty skater-look and the Doc Brown lab coat costu sets that should really need to take center stage in this whole costud affair.
Back to the Future had several special highlights this Progressive October after all and BttF costus should be quite profitable.
On that note, Calvin's red shirt with black stripes "costu" should be quite parallel to the rise of Hobbes that is still ongoing on the toy end of things. The Calvin look is technically an existing apparel though, so it wouldn't be quite fair to consider it as a costu.
Of course, the most important note in all this polarized look-through in the costu industry was to minimize loss and remain cost-efficient. Everything sold under the Creed Costus catalog pretty much has that concept in them.
It was still the Creed creed and Alexander hadn't forgotten that.
Progressive October may be about advancing with necessary solutions to the costu problem but having old-school anchoring business ideologies are still a necessity when moving forward.
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