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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Behzod Sirjani
@behzod
That’s a great point, since the qualifier for “loose” is audience dependent, and if we have similar awareness/understanding, you could say a la Yohji and I would know what you mean. But in another conversation that reference may be lost.
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vaughn tan
@vt
also: same YY shirt will fit differently on me than it will on you, which makes it hard to use the concrete exemplar to communicate fit between even 2 people who both know the same YY shirt
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vaughn tan
@vt
yea — short of a formal language for fit (which i think may be impossible) you need concrete exemplars as a form of communication the problem of formalising tacit properties of things generalises to style in general (applicable to clothing, art, writing, architecture, etc)
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