Tag: fashion

Personalized fashion

A trip to the FIT museum with its 1000s of fashion pieces from 500 years made me wonder why we can’t have it all? Where is the startup that lets me pick whatever I like from a catalog that spans the centuries, takes my measurements and then produces the garments in a fully automated factory? Failing that, how about leveraging that same labor that now brings us crappy jeans? A catalog so vast my require some recommendation technology to help me make picks, too.
Seefeld points to coco myles. Wired reports on a 3D scanner for taking body measurements.

Scanning of the Fittest

body scanners as input for one-off garments

A crop of the 3D, body-measuring devices are replacing outdated sizing paradigms, and they’re making shopping for clothes that are inconsistently sized and unrealistically fitted a little less painful. “These scanners are taking body measurements that are converted into patterns from which garments are cut. This saves a lot of time because, otherwise, it’s a one-on-one, hands-on process. It lines up with mass customization and is one of the islands of technology … that are beginning to link together so that you can get scanned, and that information is used to produce a garment for one.”

Sakku

via etoy and bernhard comes word of a new messenger bag with solar panels. while not powerful enough to charge your laptop, it will do fine with your other gadgets.

what is especially interesting to me is that sakku is a swiss startup. i have outlined before why switzerland is going down the drain. in fact, i sometimes tell smug swiss people that i am an economic refugee. all the more uplifting if a startup is ignoring the naysayers and delivering a cool product.

New hairdo

it’s been a while since i pondered hair styles. what to do? friend google may help. first i came across this advice

  • Who’s the sexiest of them all? Men wearing short, front-flip hairstyles (think Brad Pitt and Matthew LeBlanc) are perceived as most confident and sexy. It is not surprising that men with this hairstyle are also perceived as the most self-centered.

  • Why Wall Street men walk tall – Men with medium-length, side-parted hair are viewed as the most intelligent and affluent – great for that job interview. However, men with these styles are also seen as the most narrow-minded.

  • Fabio ain’t so fab after all – Bad news for long-haired Fabio types. The study validates the myth that men with long hair seem to be all brawn and no brains. They are perceived as least intelligent and most careless. But all is not lost – they are also seen as the most good-natured.

ok, time to go style shopping. maybe software can help? turns out its very hard to find decent hairstyles online, at least for men. for women there is a lot of choice, and even some software to morph hairstyles. i tried that program, quite entertaining. are there any good cuts out there? maybe these:1, 2 another alternative would be to make a fashion statement and go with a mullet.