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Good point. Depending on brand and even individual shirt by the same brand, I can be a small, extra small, small slim fit, or medium slim fit... sigh

Short of inputting your detailed measurements, I wonder how a site can solve that.

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There's a startup that does 3D scans of shoes and allows users to determine the perfect fit by asking about shoes they already own (can't remember the name). IIRC, they plan on doing clothes, too. That would be the ideal.

I once tried comparing official clothing measurements from various vendors online and came to the conclusion that they were all lying. Short of 3D scanning or painstaking measurement by hand, there isn't an easy solution. It certainly seems like a problem ripe for the picking.

>There's a startup that does 3D scans of shoes and allows users to determine the perfect fit by asking about shoes they already own (can't remember the name). IIRC, they plan on doing clothes, too. That would be the ideal.

Wow, someone please come forward with the name of this startup. I need new shoes, and if this works I'm spreading the news to everyone I know.

http://shoefitr.com/

They're just at demo stage at the moment. They eventually want to integrate this into your outlet's website.

Thanks for the link. I tried it a couple of times for a couple of different fits and I wish they had more refinement options .. like options to tell what fits to avoid and more than 1 recommendation, stability/pronation et al. for running shoes, etc.

Also sucks that for all my fits, it always showed an Asics product, a brand which I personally don't like as their fits / soles are the worst for me.

Hey, I'm one of the Shoefitr co-founders. The demo on the homepage assumes you're buying the Asics GT-2150 and just need to know what size to buy (and how it will feel). You can try it for all sorts of running shoes at http://www.runningwarehouse.com. Suggesting new products based on what you currently wear will be rolling out soon...

I know those guys. I think they're doing pretty well (have a number of decent sized deals, etc)

http;//shoefitr.com/

> There's a startup that does 3D scans of shoes and allows users to determine the perfect fit by asking about shoes they already own (can't remember the name). IIRC, they plan on doing clothes, too. That would be the ideal.

It would be really cool to hack a Kinect (or more likely, several Kinects) into doing something like that for clothing.

A friend of mine does custom dress shirts (http://propercloth.com/) and one of his solutions (besides the detailed measurements option) was to get base measurements from a whole range of retail shirts and let people pick a shirt that they already owned that fits them well and tweak from there (too long/short, tight in the chest, etc.) and then have a very liberal return policy (at least on the first shirt). It's definitely labor intensive to get started (both building up the measurements database plus learning how to tweak them based on the comments), but it seems to work well.

Very cool site! I'd love to see a few more "out-there" patterns.

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