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Ultimate Tailor

Submitted by: dfattal
Created: Feb 22, 2007, 3:35 pm

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The Elevator Pitch

For anybody who wants to buy clothes online the Ultimate Tailor is a software or an online tool that contains a database of your current clothes and uses that information to assist you in your online purchase. Unlike most online shopping tools which require you to enter the size information for the clothe you want to purchase our product uses the personalized databse in conjonction with a smart software to ensure that the clothes you are buying online will fit you in the way that YOU desire.

The Idea

An online tool containing a database about the clothes you currently own, including brand, cut, sizing information and your own rating on each item. The Ultimate Tailor can then assist you in online shopping, suggesting the best sizing option you should consider based on the size of your current clothes and the rating you provided for them. The site would of course send you alerts on new or on-sale products that might interest you (like amazon does) but you could screen these alerts using the databse information, for instance "only show item if my size is available in an online store and if the price is in a certain range of what I appear to be usually paying for this item". Site users could enter items manually in the database, or let it update itself after each online purchase. The last touch would be the possibility to exchange some database info with your friends, if you want to copy their style. You could even sell your database if you are particularly popular !

I thought of this idea when I was...

My favorite pair of jeans is getting old, and I want to buy something similar online but unless it is the same model, I can't be sure about the size I should get... I need Ultimate Tailor !!!

Comments Posted

Fazza Posted: February 23, 2007, 6:53 pm

Good idea. Maybey we could cobine it with my Style Forum idea - see http://www.cambrianh...ter/ideas-id/HpE7Wes

dfattal Posted: February 23, 2007, 11:05 pm

hey Fazza,

yeah i read your idea, I like it and it would indeed combine well with the Ultimate Tailor !

Clothe databses from celebrities (or people having gained fame on your site !) could potentially become a new economic good...

let's see if there are other folks interested...

generic_idea_machine Posted: February 27, 2007, 12:08 am

The Ultimate Warrior would probably order from this website. =D

thecougar Posted: February 27, 2007, 11:21 pm

I love this idea! I buy everything online but have yet to really get into buying clothes because there is such variability between different brands that I never know what will fit, even if they are the same size. It's simple and could be an easy acquisition target for a larger clothing retailer.

jill Posted: June 28, 2007, 5:34 pm

The big gap here is creating the "smart software" to populate the personal database.

I hate shopping for clothes. I think I would find inputting all my clothing purchases into a dbase too tedious for words.

However if I could just enter the bar code number from each item as I purchase it, and have a machine to do the rest, maybe that would help.

Overall this seems very complex and unless you have the passion to drive it across the finish line, I'm not sure it will make it.

I wonder if the author knows this idea is in contention.

vanhees Posted: June 29, 2007, 4:04 am

Hi dfattal.
I like the name of the idea. My tailor (down the street) also has my size recorded in his computer so to do this online seems ok. The put al your clothing in a database seems like a hell of a job: there is so much on the market right now.
Maybe it would help if you per brand the sizes that you use.In Europe this is particularly handy because every country has his own system.
Tommy

steveszat Posted: June 29, 2007, 4:07 pm

Hey, I have an idea for an improvement. Hook it up to a digital scale, so that when I put on weight it will automatically adjust my sizes accordingly.
It's actually a pretty good idea - yours I mean. Another suggestion for an enhancement - this one serious - would be to make it so that it could help you select clothing gifts for your friends. It could make suggestions based on their favorite brands, styles and their sizes. I like it.

dew2105 Posted: July 1, 2007, 1:18 am

Nothing like a tailored fit. I only buy dress shirts from one store/ brand because they're very nice, relatively affordable (at $60 a pop), and always fit perfectly. I'd like to see this extended not just to mass-produced like the store I visit, but maybe export the info and have custom made suits, shirts, slacks, etc. made in Hong Kong...

darlinglilred Posted: July 3, 2007, 11:03 am

Love this idea, I find it so frustrating to order things online and the sizes are never quite what I imagine them to be.

dfattal Posted: July 5, 2007, 11:33 pm

argh sorry i was away while all these comments were being made. Thank you all for the input. Steveszat, I like your comment about the gift suggestion, I think it is an important improvement to the original idea. I might refine the idea a bit more and try the contest again !

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