Automated Bespoke Clothing

This is an idea that would revolutionize the garment industry. Automated bespoke clothing is a technology-based garment production method, which would provide manufacturers with direct customer input, and customers with bespoke, designer clothing.

Here’s how it would work:

A company sets up kiosks in malls, where people pay to have their bodies scanned. Customers go into changing rooms, and put on a body stocking, with digital markers recording their body dimensions and proportions. These scans are data files with sufficient information to give any designer the information needed to cut any type of clothing for the customer.

Designers have software which will lay out each cut of a garment, with the ability to adjust each cut to the proportions in the customer’s body scan data file. The cut and stitch process could easily be automated.

This would allow customers to go directly to designers, and with their body scan data, order custom clothing. This would accomplish several things: One, customers’ clothing would be a perfect fit. Two, returns for ill-fitting clothing would be a thing of the past, allowing consumers to go directly to designers, increasing the on-line market for garments, and killing a few malls and automobile trips in the process. Three, designers could manage their stock more efficiently, eliminating (or at least significantly reducing) inventory. Four, if the process is done the right way, the workers displaced by automation would be given generous basic income benefits from the profits generated. Anyone owning or licensing this technology would have to make these benefits a part of the licensing agreement.