Source: Kickstarter, RompHim
The romper featured pockets and an adjustable waist, and the Kickstart campaign described it as "your new favorite summer outfit."
RompHim later expanded to a second design, called the RompSuit, which featured the same short sleeves but long pants instead of shorts.
Source: Kickstarter, RompHim
In 2018, the company launched a Pride collection, donating 5% of the sales to the Trevor Project, a suicide prevention organization for LGBTQ youth.
Source: Mel Magazine, RompHim
RompHim's social media posts started to taper off, and during the holidays, the company offered 75% off all of its merchandise.
Source: RompHim
Elaine Chen, RompHim's CEO, also works in business operations at retail software company Faire.
Alex Neumann, Chip Longenecker, and Daniel Webster-Clark all currently work at Bain & Company.
"There are few things in the world quite like building something from scratch. In our case, we got to take an idea — an idea that most people told us was ridiculous — and turn it into a business," Neumann wrote in an email to customers.
Given that RompHim's founders all have full-time jobs, they no longer have time to devote to the company, which was intended to be a side project, Webster-Clark told BuzzFeed News.
Source: BuzzFeed News
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