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July 9, 2010
As an avid online shopper, I am still reluctant to purchase clothes or shoes online unless I have tried them on in the store first. The reason? Fear it won’t fit, and the disappointment of having to send it back, etc.
Well, help is at last (nearly!) at hand!
An Estonian firm have developed an “online torso”, that you can input your measurements, and have it “model” the item for you. At first the developers thought it wasn’t possible, but by starting off on the simplest form (the male of the species!), they have developed the torso to “shape-shift” into 100,000 different shapes and sizes to allow male shoppers to gauge a better idea of what the garment would look like before buying it.
It is not currently ran in real-time (someone has to dress the mannequin and take pictures, etc, for now) but once it is through the testing stages, we should see it used by a lot of online stores.
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