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I consider myself a male fashion fan, not bleeding edge but I spend a few hundred to a few thousand on clothes per year. Generally I think the interface is good
by omeze 6y ago
I consider myself a male fashion fan, not bleeding edge but I spend a few hundred to a few thousand on clothes per year. Generally I think the interface is good (other than the latency that others have pointed out). But the outfit recommendations seem quite bad/nonsensical (sorry for bluntness):
For a denim trucker jacket (a fairly common outerwear in many menswear lines/people's closets) it recommended:
One outfit with Sand colored shoes + Khakis (no contrast between shoes/pants...)
Two outfits that had no shirts but another jacket (eg a red track jacket...)
Its not all bad, one example outfit generated from a plain white crwwneck sweater was clever - olive flight jacket + orange trousers + white mocassins.
I wonder how you've built the recommendation engine. Is it using a dataset to generate these (maybe include a real photo of the look?) Or is it generating them based on color/style rules? Or (what Id hope) a combination (learn rules from a lookbook dataset that can give general tips then also fall vs spring tips).
Either way, thanks for sharing - this is a fun tool to play with but it feels like I'm searching for needles in a haystack right now.
- baron816 6y agoEven if it worked well, it hard to believe using it would be less effort than figuring things out on your own. Men who care about what they look like are probably going to have decent instincts about what to wear. Men who don’t care, well, they’re not going to try.
- Timpy 6y agoI think there's a third very specific category of "men who care but don't know how, but they love making systems out of things to help solve their problems." You might find one or two of these kinds on Hacker News.
- omeze 6y agoTotally agree & I started in this category so I can sympathize. I spent more $ & time in dressing rooms than I care to admit to figure out what specific outfit combinations worked and how different brands fit. Having something like this that worked well would've been an amazing starting point, and I was hoping that Pinterest's visual search feature would eventually become something like this (as that'd get me to actually use Pinterest). I think more men would dress well if it weren't so hard!
- throwaway201103 6y agoSo we just need Garanimals for grown ups?
- marcinzm 6y agoThere's men who care because society cares but don't want to spend all the effort gaining the instincts themselves. Probably also useful for people who come from, for example, poor families and never had guidance on such things growing up so would need to devote extra effort to gain the instincts.
- baron816 6y agoWell, I think what they need is to look at a blog like https://putthison.com/ https://putthison.com/. It’s easier to read a few articles on there than to try to use some janky app everyday.
- Godel_unicode 6y agoYou must be confused, they said they want to look good...
- sologoub 6y agoYou can probably get this integrated into some other lower friction point than the phone/browser, such as a smart display or assistant. Could also be useful for shopping to make sure the person actually has the right clothes to make the combos. Problem is, until they crack the combos, there is no product.
- BurningFrog 6y agoI for one would love to be well dressed, but I don't know how. We exist, but it's not something you exactly brag about :)
- chordalkeyboard 6y agoStart reading fashion magazines and tear out the pictures of stuff you like. Then when you see something you like at the mall or Macy's, get it. If there's stuff in your closet you don't wear (or don't like to wear), fold it and put it in storage and if you haven't needed it for 6-12 months, give it away and replace it with a garment of the same type that you like.
- cercatrova 6y agoRead through r/malefashionadvice and their wiki, they have a bunch of info on how to improve your style. Specifically, they have threads every day called What Are You Wearing Today which has people take pictures of themselves and what they're wearing specifically (brands, name of clothing SKU) which you can then pick up to buy if you like it, or find alternatives for it. https://www.reddit.com/r/malefashionadvice/wiki https://www.reddit.com/r/malefashionadvice/wiki
- ape4 6y agowhite mocassins are silly. They would get dirty in a second.
- FireBeyond 6y agoYeah, I had one option for a blue gingham oxford short come back with tan chinos... ... and grey slides (sandals/flipflops). Hmm.
- thih9 6y agoI've been recommended a green zip-up hoodie, white corduroy jacket and yellow drawstring shorts. This wouldn't be my first pick.
- uoaei 6y agoThis is pretty common in novice machine learning models -- not explicitly building in constraints and invariants, i.e., "inductive bias". Seems like a huge oversight to allow outfits with no shirts but two jackets, for example.
- WalterSear 6y agoGet with the times, man!
- tcgv 6y agoSame impression here. Great UI, but weird outfit suggestion. My first test resulted in: - Black dress shirt + Black pleated shorts + Off white slides
- sokoloff 6y agoI'm so far out of the target market for this that I don't even know what slides are. (Even after googling, I'm still only about 80% sure.)
- appleflaxen 6y agohere are outfits based on off-white slip-on shoes. https://www.twelve70.com/outfits?category1=footwear&item1=slides&color1=offwhite&closetOnly=0 https://www.twelve70.com/outfits?category1=footwear&item1=sl...
- iamben 6y agoTotally agree with this. A good starting point might have been some of the looks on reddit's malefashionadvice (or something similar). The basic bastard, for instance, is a a great capsule wardrobe https://amp.reddit.com/r/malefashionadvice/comments/5da1dc/the_basic_bastard_basic_wardrobe_and_inspiration/ https://amp.reddit.com/r/malefashionadvice/comments/5da1dc/t... That said, excellent idea and well done on executing and making it look pretty!
- sologoub 6y agoEven with a pretty basic starting point - a blue polo, got some really odd recommendations, like khaki cargo pants with charcoal kiltie loafers.
- nl 6y agoI started with a blue polo, and got burgundy coaches jacket (ok..) + navy cargo shorts (err..) + light pink low wallabies (which are apparently a kind of boat shoes). The pink shoes might work with the polo, but not with the burgundy jacket.
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- zigzaggy 6y agoI'm having mostly the same experience. I've always considered myself a bit odd because I enjoy wearing different "nice" clothes. When I was younger I struggled because, ironically, I HATE shopping. But then came the internet. Anyway, the site is pretty cool because it opens my mind up to new ideas. But I had a lot of suggested outfits that were the same color of different pieces (no contrast as you said) and multiple jackets. Wonder if it "learns" my style over time? I'd like to see this continue to grow. And maybe instead of the schedule feature, it could give me links to buy. I imagine monetization isn't far off if there's decent traffic.