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The fitting problem in online retail is well known, and some companies have already worked on it: for shoes: http://shoefitr.com/ http://shoefitr.com/ For clo
by minthd 11y ago
The fitting problem in online retail is well known, and some companies have already worked on it:
for shoes: http://shoefitr.com/ http://shoefitr.com/
For clothes : fits.me or "clothes horse" or others.
I wonder what prevents amazon from introducing such technologies at scale ?
- rahimnathwani 11y agoFor many clothing products, Amazon displays a histogram of how previous purchasers have found the fit (too small,..,fits perfectly,..,too large) and a summary (51% of customers say this runs large).
- groby_b 11y agoshoefitr is so close. Now let me scan my foot instead of "I mostly fit into size X", and you've got a great solution.
- minthd 11y agoGoogle is starting to sell tango tablets which include 3d-scanning , for everybody ,for $512. So maybe we're not far from what you suggest.
- grayclhn 11y agoScan? A picture of my foot next to a ruler, please. Or some other standard-sized reference object, like an electrical outlet.
- nitrogen 11y agoA 2D scan, though probably not what the parent comment intended, implies a size via a fixed DPI. A 3D scan, similarly, can measure actual dimensions without requiring a reference object.
- groby_b 11y agoMaybe men's shoes are different, but in women's shoes, you want to know the shape of the arch. Trust me, it matters :)