vaughn tan
@vt
was talking to @les how much do people think about fit (defined as garment shape x size specifically interacting with body shape x size) when choosing what to buy and wear?
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adrienne
@adrienne
fit is the most important factor, but we lack a canonical vocabulary for it. You guys working on this?
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vaughn tan
@vt
not on this specifically — but i've done some research and theorising before about how to communicate and learn inherently tacit knowledge which i think is relevant to the question of communicating fit
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adrienne
@adrienne
creating a language for fit is difficult because it depends on the uniqueness of individual body shape Rent the runway is doing something with this using ML, making recommendations based on the data they collect about fit
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vaughn tan
@vt
+ @behzod think it is difficult for another big reason: how something fits can't be described fully in words eg both james perse and yohji yamamoto design shirts to be "loose" (broadly speaking), but the nature of "loose" is recognisably different
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