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As exemplified by the old threadbase post: https://web.archive.org/web/20160318074519/threadbase.com/unravelled https://web.archive.org/web/20160318074519/threa

by mc32 5y ago

As exemplified by the old threadbase post: https://web.archive.org/web/20160318074519/threadbase.com/unravelled https://web.archive.org/web/20160318074519/threadbase.com/un... The sizes vary within brands themselves. Traditionally the solution was to get a tailor take your measurements and make a pattern for you and cut from cloth to make you a garment. Obviously, in today's day and age, that gets a bit expensive for most people.

bluGill 5y ago
I'm waiting the day when I go into a store and the fitting room scans my body (naked or just underwear) and then it creates an outfit just for my body. We could probably pull it off already, but it can't compete with third world produced on price, and those are good enough.
- mc32 5y ago
  I think there have been failed attempts at this over the past 20 years or so. If you're willing to wait, they could do this somewhat affordably --just won't be off the rack fast (week or two?) That said, a tailor will make you pose properly and not slouch or droop your shoulder, so they would take better measurements. Presumably, SW could correct for bad posture as well.
  - ethbr0 5y ago
    Measurement is easy. Even the elastic deformation (i.e. multiple poses). Manufacturing at scale is currently impossible. Tailoring is basically robotics' worst nightmare: input material with varying characteristics from batch to batch, delicate materials, multiple different motions and tasks, a non-reducible movement and orientation space (e.g. sew a hem along a curve), and a complex mapping between physical tasks and end result (different stitch on seam = different motion). We'll get there (and if it weren't for low cost labor, would already be there for t-shirts). But it's really hard.
mikepurvis 5y ago
There are companies working on scaling this kind of thing, though: https://www.indochino.com/suits/fit https://www.indochino.com/suits/fit That one is a "measure at home" affair, but I've also heard tell of ones where there's a pop up at a co-working space or whatever, and you go get measured, pick your fabrics, and get the shirts in the mail a few weeks later. Cost-wise, it's definitely more than getting them at a department store, but it's not ridiculously more. Think like 2-3x rather than 10x.

by mc32 5y ago

bluGill 5y ago

I'm waiting the day when I go into a store and the fitting room scans my body (naked or just underwear) and then it creates an outfit just for my body. We could probably pull it off already, but it can't compete with third world produced on price, and those are good enough.

mc32 5y ago
I think there have been failed attempts at this over the past 20 years or so. If you're willing to wait, they could do this somewhat affordably --just won't be off the rack fast (week or two?) That said, a tailor will make you pose properly and not slouch or droop your shoulder, so they would take better measurements. Presumably, SW could correct for bad posture as well.
- ethbr0 5y ago
  Measurement is easy. Even the elastic deformation (i.e. multiple poses). Manufacturing at scale is currently impossible. Tailoring is basically robotics' worst nightmare: input material with varying characteristics from batch to batch, delicate materials, multiple different motions and tasks, a non-reducible movement and orientation space (e.g. sew a hem along a curve), and a complex mapping between physical tasks and end result (different stitch on seam = different motion). We'll get there (and if it weren't for low cost labor, would already be there for t-shirts). But it's really hard.

mikepurvis 5y ago

There are companies working on scaling this kind of thing, though: https://www.indochino.com/suits/fit https://www.indochino.com/suits/fit That one is a "measure at home" affair, but I've also heard tell of ones where there's a pop up at a co-working space or whatever, and you go get measured, pick your fabrics, and get the shirts in the mail a few weeks later. Cost-wise, it's definitely more than getting them at a department store, but it's not ridiculously more. Think like 2-3x rather than 10x.