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I worked on this problem a few gigs back at Polyvore! tl;dr: It's nearly impossible to solve. As you may already know, "Standard Sizing" is a misnomer. There i
by web007 8y ago
I worked on this problem a few gigs back at Polyvore! tl;dr: It's nearly impossible to solve.
As you may already know, "Standard Sizing" is a misnomer. There is no single standard for a size. US vs EU vs JP vs other are all the same number (size 4) but different nominal sizes.
Add to that the chaos of standard sizes between brands (brand A size 4 != brand B size 4 != brand C size 4) and even within the same brand (brand A product 1 size 4 != brand A product 2 size 4) and you find that there's no single answer to matching a human to a size.
Even your suggestion of measurements won't help without more data around it. Clothing shape and fabric type matter nearly as much as the measurements, since one may be a form-fitting 90cm and another may be a breezy and stretchy 90cm. Personal preference matters as well, so you may prefer breezy while I prefer form-fitting.
- ceejayoz 8y agoSo I get that it's likely to be impossible to fully solve anytime soon, but I'd think at least requiring a couple of basic measurements would make a dent. I've seen exactly what you describe - sizes varying between countries, between brands, between individual items in a brand. A lot of the listings on Amazon include a custom size chart now, but it's not semantic data - it's just a screenshot in the product listing. Example: https://www.amazon.com/Beautifulfashionlife-Waisted-Pleated-Cosplay-Costumes/dp/B01179J4S6/ https://www.amazon.com/Beautifulfashionlife-Waisted-Pleated-... This one lists a XXXX-Large as a 34" waist, and a Large as a 28" waist. It shows up if you search Amazon for "plus size skirt"; if Amazon made vendors put in the waist measurements and let them be filterable based on that, someone in a US size 18 dress wouldn't be offered this as an option. Again, I get the difference between a 90cm loose fit and a 90cm tight fit. I should be able to tell a major ecommerce site "look, I'm 150cm... fuck off with the 90cm stuff".
- twairball 8y agoMeasureAI performs clothing measurements from a photo, no tape measure required. Link: https://measure.productai.com https://measure.productai.com Disclaimer: I worked on this product. Standardization is one way to go, but for us we quickly found that with clothing styles, edge cases are the norm, not the exception.
- web007 8y agoThat would be great to get as a measurement and filter by. It still won't solve the problem you want it to. This is a product with 1 measurement, maybe 1.5 if you count length. Due to flare, waist position, ratio to waist, etc. the length is subjective even with an absolute value assigned. Providing those measurements in this one case will help, but then you have to deal with "skirts" as a whole category with many sub-categories. And your measurements need to apply universally, so you need style, waist, waist position, length, flare, hobble and more. Broad categories for any of them won't help you, so "> 150cm" is not going to help beyond an existing "plus size" filter. Where the skirt sits matters too, so 150cm is fine for https://amazon.com/dp/B01G0YFAWM/ https://amazon.com/dp/B01G0YFAWM/ but not for https://amazon.com/dp/B07HB2NXPY/ https://amazon.com/dp/B07HB2NXPY/ . https://amazon.com/dp/B01KXBI2VE/#g2s2SizeChartView_1549640103404 https://amazon.com/dp/B01KXBI2VE/#g2s2SizeChartView_15496401... shows they have the data in some cases. There's a proper HTML chart with all the measurements as "Size Chart" in the pictures section. I would love infinite knobs to filter on every aspect, but most people (as proved per $ spent) prefer fewer simpler options for how to find products.