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The Ultimate Guide to Wearing a Chambray Shirt
UPDATE (Feb 27 2013): If you like this article – you should ‘Like’ Confessions of a Product Junkie’s brand new Facebook page to get updates when there are more fashion how to’s and articles like this one.
Chambray and denim shirts have been popular for quite a few seasons now, and for good reason. They are, hands down, one of the easiest trends to wear. They’re also the glue that ties many other spring trends together (as you’ll see in this guide).
Personally, I’m a huge fan of the chambray. Some of my favorites are from J Crew (I have this one), Lauren by RL and Urban Outfitters.
More options…
However, I’m sad to see that many women have avoided purchasing a chambray because they’re just not sure how to wear them. That’s where I come in. Because one of the questions I get asked most often is how to pull off the chambray (or I get asked how to wear other things and the answer is always “with a chambray!”), I decided it was time to put together a guide. So here are my tips for wearing a chambray or denim shirt. Enjoy!
Image on left via See Jane. Image on right is me.
So if you add one thing to your wardrobe this spring, make it a chambray or denim shirt. In fact, make it two – because if you follow these tips for wearing yours, you’ll get so much use out of it that you’ll want to own both.
UPDATE (Feb 27 2013): If you like this article – you should ‘Like’ Confessions of a Product Junkie’s brand new Facebook page to get updates when there are more fashion how to’s and articles like this one.
The Sweet Spot: Why Netflix Matters
A very Interesting video about Internet jargon:
http://www.nytimes.com/video/playlist/latest-video/1194811622182/index.html#100000002358443
Incorporating Artlandia SymmertyWorks/SymmetryMill into an Adobe Pattern Design for Industry Course
The Adobe Pattern Design for Industry class offered by the Fashion Textile Technology program at Buffalo State college has undergone continual revisions and modifications over the years. When I first started teaching it we did not use computers. We made a book of fabric swatches with different surface treatments [pen/paint/dye etc; marbling rubber stamp, stenciling, rubber cement, etc] We also hand drew motifs and developed repeats using tracing paper and the light table and carefully taped together copies before we transferred the repeat design to good paper for painting.
Everything took so long not much was developed for student portfolios in 15 weeks of class that we have. I slowly started transferring time-consuming steps to the computer starting with scanning in the hand drawn motifs so that the hand drawn motif could be developed into a seamless repeat on the computer. The single repeat was printed out and traced on to paper to be hand painted. This handpainted single repeat would then have to be scanned in and color separated – lots of time again.
I thought we could save a lot more time if we scanned in individual handpainted motifs or elements like individual flowers, color separated them in Photoshop and maybe duplicated and arranged a motif and repeat design once they were already separated. This saved lots of time and more student assignments could be completed for this class. At this point the major portion of the class was shifting to Photoshop and Illustrator, we no longer worked on the book of fabric swatches. Students take a fiber design course to develop traditional printing, multi-media or weaving techniques.
Currently the class is focusing primarily on Illustrator because it really speeds things up in a major way. The final files are much smaller and all elements created in this resolution free vector environment can easily be archived and used for other projects, or can be imported into a raster program like Photoshop at any size and resolution.
Having the students working on increasing Illustrator skills also reflects the graphics infusion with surface design trends that are everywhere to be seen in commercial fabrics. A quick review of the fabrics in the SS13 NY and London ready-to-wear designer collections will verify this observation. We do continue to use Photoshop for concept board development to instruct students how to use a variety of special effects and layer masks. We also have a color separation and cleaning and recoloring assignment to instruct students how they would color separate, clean and recolor hand painted artwork.
Students from the fiber design class are encouraged to either scan in or take a digital photograph of their original work so they can learn how to make a seamless repeat and recolor a tonal image [as well as a photograph] in Photoshop. This semester the addition of Artlandia SymmetryMill to expand on this assignment is sure to excite the students. SymmetryMill is the perfect application to develop the current pattern patch work type designs that include multiple different pattern repeats for one fabric using one overall color palette in different proportions for each pattern repeat.
Artlandia SymmetryMill is a stand-alone full function Web Browser application, all you need is an Internet connection.
Another place we make be able to make use of SymmetryMill is in an assignment were we start with a scanned image of a water-color flower, we desaturate it, create a repeat and develop multiple custom colorways for it.
We have also recently incorporated the new Adobe CS6 Pattern Tool into the course assignments. Here is a link to a previous post (Adobe Illustrator CS6: New Pattern Tool Video Tutorials) that has some video tutorials of the new Pattern Tool. During the last 4-5 classes of the semester, students will first be introduced to using Artlandia SymmetryWorks in Illustrator then they will take the Illustrator motifs they have already developed earlier in the class and create SymmetryWorks layouts that will include the original motif and 6 repeat tiles and in repeat swatches that they developed from each motif using Symmetry Works. Artlandia SymmetryWorks has been around for a while. The SymmetryWorks application is continually being upgraded to enable the user to develop more sophisticated and complex vector [and raster] patterning.
The Artlandia SymmetryMill and Artlandia SymmetryWorks applications are excellent additions to the Adobe Surface Design for Industry class. These applications enable students to create an unlimited number of tonal and vector repeats in a very short time. The different symmetries also help students understand the interlocking repeat construction of the repeats. The new SymmetryMill in particular is excellent for an educational setting because students can work right from their Web browsers (see image above), no other application is needed to develop the pattern repeats. Students can work on assignments from anywhere they have an Internet connection.
You may wonder how I learned about Artlandia SymmetryMill. I was recently invited to beta test it and I must say it is totally addictive for anyone that loves to create and develop and endless variety of repeat seamless patterns. You can upload your custom image and very quickly develop repeat patterns from seventeen planar symmetry types.
You can learn about:
SymmetryMill HERE.
SymmetryWorks HERE.
You can keep your patterns private or share them with the community at Pattern Central.
Here is the link to the SymmertyMill patterns I developed while beta testing the product for Artlandia. SymmetryMill has step-by-step tutorials HERE.
SymmetryWorks has excellent easy to follow step-by-step tutorials. Below are some images of the patterns developed from following their tutorials.
Artlandia has even developed a pattern glossary that the students can easily refer to learn about the different pattern terms and categories.
The students at Buffalo State are looking forward to working on Artlandia SymmetryMill[raster] and Artlandia SymmetryWorks [vector] this semester.
I will post again about integrating the Artlandia SynmmetryMill and SymmetryWorks applications in my course after the semester ends.
The full assortment of Artlandia products are HERE.
Virtual Bodyscanner, Virtual Fit/Sizing and Virtual 2D/3D Try-On and Virtual Closet List
Microsoft Kinect Technology is Transforming Bodyscanning and Virtual Fit Capabilities.
Whew – that is quite a title for this posting and believe me it is not representative of the slew of fashion try on apps out there and not all of them are connected to “fit.” All these apps represent a lot of confusion no doubt caused by that magnificent Kinect-based technology that Microsoft made possible. Before Kinect technology it was either type in your own measurements online to match brand size measurements to user measurements or the currently expanding number of on site body scanners like Me Ality that provide a totally accurate body scan [far more accurate than what an average user would ever type in]. The scanner service matches and locates brand items that fit the body scan measurements. [Update: If Me-Ality installs 300 bodyscanner brand size matching services in shopping centers across North America as I blogged about in the last post, they will have addressed and resolved a portion of the accurate sizing issue for online retailers. Once your accurate body measurements are in the Me-Ality database, you can shop online for accurate fitting clothing. This will have the effect of significantly reducing returns from online sales. I wonder if the Me-Ality scanner data was uploaded to the [TC]2 mobile Virtual Fashion System if the user could then virtually test various brands of garment fit on themselves in 360 rotation? – see the Smart Phone section on the [TC]2 post]. Kinect based technology has made several 2D try on “flat photo image” applications and 3D [360 degree rotational] accurate sizing and fit applications for the on site retail market and development for home based 3D Kinect fit and sizing services is fast and furious, more are emerging every day.
Kinect technology full 3D bodyscanners have been developed that are capable of providing “highly accurate” full body scans. The key word is “accurate’ the number of depth sensors are directly related to the accuracy and number of measurements that can be scanned. The number of seconds it takes to scan the 3,6,10 is far less important than the accuracy of the scan and number of measurements the scan [related to the number of 3D depth sensors]. The low cost [$10,000 (portable) or $12,500 in the booth version] TC2 “16 depth sensor” Kinect based bodyscanner machine the KX-16 is overall equal to full body scanners and supports hundreds of measurements with better than 1/4″ accuracy.
You have to know exactly what you are looking for because there is an abundance of smoke and mirrors out there. The listing for bodyscanners and full service providers on this post is not all-inclusive. You will have to do your own research and ask a lot of questions relating to what outcomes you specifically want and compare closely. There will be an International Conference and Exhibition on 3D Body Scanning Technologies in Lugano Switzerland in October, check out the program topics and technical program here. If you are lucky enough to attend, get yourself bodyscanned at several vendors and compare the results.
Chasing the Holy Grail of Accurate Virtual Bodyscanning & Fit
So far several candidates seem to be currently vying for holy grail development and service providers. First to be mentioned is TC2, who is a provider of direct and indirect technology products and services to industry. [Their mission is to elevate the level of technology, manufacturing systems, and business processes employed in the global soft goods industry through research and development, education, training, and outreach.] Others are Human Solutions, Bodymetrics and DNA Interactif Fashion. Styku is all over the Web announcing that they are definitely chasing the full range of holy grail services but seems to be still in development phase. They are all vying to become the first widely used mass market providers of an entire range of services that includes but is not limited to accurate bodyscanning for fit, & sizing, for product customization and home and/or retail virtual try-on with accurate fit and sizing with the ability to move around in the draped clothing and test tightness of looseness of the fit. Color and styling selections are part of the service as well as locating items from specific brands that the user can try on in the privacy of their home.
Variety of Other Virtual Fit and Virtual Closet Services
Some of the other retail-based Kinect applications enable the user to overlay images of fashion items over a video of them to visually see how the items [dress, handbag, etc.] kind of, sort of look like on the viewer by overlaying a flat 2D photo image.
Not using the Kinect technology is True Fit, one of the more well-known online fit and sizing service. Macy’s and Nordstrom have recently begun using True Fit for certain categories of apparel on their websites. True Fit uses a computer program that relies partly on the clothes already in a person’s closet along with brands’ size specifications. Metail, a virtual fitting room launched by Tesco on Facebook. MyVirtualModel MVM now markets a weight management simulator in additioin to the My Virtual Model app. One fit application that stands alone in the FitsMe application. It is a shape shifting robot that lets you try clothes online.
TC2 offers low-cost 2D/3D Kinect based body scanning devices for home with the Single Windows Kinect Body Scnner and the TC2 Virtual Fashion System or the V-Dresser [or for Weight Management].
The List
1. Full Bodyscanners [highly detailed or detailed accuracy]
[note: If you are looking for this technology make sure the measurement extraction goes right to your servers. If there is an online extraction service it should go only to the companies servers and not to the scanner company. If it goes to the scanner companies server, they get a copy of all your data.]
- TC2 – ImageTwin Highly detailed accuracy, NX-16 White light and also 16 sensor KX-16 Kinect Technology.
- Telmat Highly detailed accuracy,White light technology
- Human Solutions Highly detailed accuracy, Laser technology
- Spacevision Cartesia Highly detailed accuracy[offered by TC2 in US and Europe] Laser technology [Spacevision of Japan is currently the leading scanner in Japan and Korea]
- Styku Kinect 4 sensor Kinect technology/detailed accuracy [possibly a proprietary system linked to Tukacad]
2. Full Bodyscanning Fit, Sizing, Style, and Data Collection Services
- Me-Ality Service geared to match consumers to brand fit and styling selection. [Unique Solutions, Gen. II Intellifit Technology] Currently there already are 65 locations across the US [link], funding was awarded in 2011 for 300 new locations All planned locations are here. Video link of retail service here.
- Alvascan Service geared to retailers for fit. [Gen I Intellifit, TC2, Human Solutions Technology].
3. Holy Grail Chasers: Full bodyscanning fit and sizing/virtual try-on retail/home, data collection, and mass customization services.
The companies below are representative of some candidates for possibly offering all these products and/or services either via industry outreach or directly to the retail industry. In some cases many or in other only a few more ingredients are needed to obtain the magical holy grail. The most obvious requirement is current placement at retail level.
- TC2 offers and is in continual research and development for the latest in 2D/3D technology primarily for the global softgoods industries that incorporate bodyscanning including chasers of Phase II “holy grail” home-based 2D/3D Kinect fit technology. In addition to the KX-16 portable full body scanner TC2 offers [TC]2’s Virtual Fashion System – it makes lifelike natural pose avatars and can show them with clothing, and can predict sizes or provide custom clothing specifications that are compatible with other systems. Here is a link to a mobile device simulation, [note:if you click on the link give it a few seconds to start]. Clothing can be generated from V-Dresser, Marvelous Designer, OptiTex, Lectra, Maya, etc etc etc. TC2 also offers the V-Dresser 3D virtual garment creation system. Leveraging recently released low-cost scanning devices for home use, [TC]² has combined that low-cost power and availability with its Size Selection, Avatar Creation, Virtual Fashion, and Weight Loss Visualization technologies developed over the years for use with high-accuracy 3D full body scans. The result is an extremely high value-low cost solution for retail, at-home, and web-enabled smart phone applications. V-Dresser is the overall highest quality lowest cost system and is compatible with garment content from almost all systems. TC2 maintains a strong link between education and industry. TC2 technology is currently placed in numerous public applications via a range of products/service arrangements.
- DNA Interactif Fashion [TC2 Image Twin technology] iStyling Service w/ Interactif Mirror video here. Users can use cloud platform to access their personal proportions, personal body measurements and personalized mannequin to buy apparel, accessories, styling advice, health advice and select new hair styles. All purchases automatically appear on all devices. So they can use it always and everywhere. The consumer can even share info, outfits etc with the community. Offerings of full service here. Their site has links to 3 retail placements, go to DNA Homepage drop down menu, select References and select from one to the 3 lower locations.
- Human Solutions Retail [Laser technology] offers life-like natural pose avatars and can show them with clothing, and can predict sizes or provide custom clothing specifications that are linked to industrial processes. The HS system can utilize 3D clothing generated from its product development applications. HS has developed a product called The Virtual Mirror. It connects your products and your customers virtually in real time. In a seamless process chain, bodyscanning is interactively connected with 3D clothing simulation and CAD software.
- BodyMetrics [Kinect Based PrimeSense Solutions Technology] Bodyscanning for Brand matching for Fit, Style Selection, Sizing. Currently available at several retail locations [video link here] , Kinect based home shopping virtual try-on and fit services currently in development.
- Styku [Kinect4 sensor Kinect technology] Currently no real deployments at retail. [Seems to be still in full concept development stage for Fit, Style Selection, Sizing and Virtual Try-On retail/home services and perhaps a variety of other products and services are being planned. [Update: Styku was conducting a 3 month manual user measurement input demo test [category #4] for an online e-tailer Billy Blues that was no longer working at the time of my research for this post. Currently it looks like Billy Blues is no longer taking orders but Styku seems to have recently activated a demo page again for a manual user input size matching service [not a bodyscanning brand matching size service] on their site for jeans at Nordstroms. Here is the direct link. This does not seem to be a service that is available directly from Nordstroms. Nordstrom currently uses the True Fit service listed below]
4. Online Fit And Sizing Services That Require User Input Data
This category has some sites that are only available through a retailer, while others are Web services open to the public. Body dimensions estimated via a variety of questionnaire interfaces where user fills out measurements and current brand style, size/fit info and that algorithm data is matched up with style, sizing and fit info available for online brands.
- TrueFit Winner of 2 MITX [The Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange] innovation awards 2012 ” 2012 Best Consumer Tech that Makes Life Easier” Only a service for retail clients. Find your True Fit at Nordstroms or at Macys.
- BodyPal For retail clients and free for the public. Video link. [I believe measurements may only metric right now]
- Metail Only a service for retail clients. users. Video link.
Tesco is the first retailer to use the technology, which is hosted on its Facebook page. By Emma Hutchings. - MIPSO – Video Link. Only a service [online, mobile and in store] for retail clients.
- MyVirtualModel – Only a service [online, mobile and in store] for retail clients.
- WhatFitsMe Free public user site Video link.
- Zafu Free public user site
5. Video image, 3DKinect Bodyscanning Virtual Fit Rooms/Robotic Clothes Form
- UpCload – Free public user site and available for retailers. Users size is estimated via Webcam image and user input measurements.
- TC2 Single Windows Kinect Body Scanner Accurate Human Avatars for All Applications Including size selection advice, virtual fashion and weight loss visualization.
- Fitiquette – Looks like it will be only a service for retail clients. Seems to be still in development stage – does not seem to be in any on site retailer right now only demo video. The video has too much focus on the customer’s hand movements and not enough focus on the actual product. Hummm. Video link. Looks like a still in development 3D Kinect based application that is being planned for use in store and at home with online platform that allows users to input clothing sizes, body types, styles, colors and preferred shopping brands to find the best “fit” using a rotating model. Very interesting…
Startup Spotlight: Q&A With Fitiquette. - Sizeseeker Not sure how this will be marketed. The company uses the Xbox Kinect to help users accurately find their clothing size. They are members of the Wharton Venture Initiation Program, all Sizeseeker needs is a photo from the front and side and it will automatically compare your measurements with 100,000 other body scans to estimate size. Wharton Journal link.
- Fits.me – Only a service for retail clients and a really one-of-a-kind unique one at that. Video link. Robotic size changing clothes form – responds to typed in measurements. Selected garment sizes are illustrated on robotic shape shifting form that match users typed in measurements.
6. Virtual Closets/ Kinect based 2D Virtual dressing room Virtual Closets
Virtual dressing rooms and virtual closets are “not” fitting room applications. Virtual-Closet Web Sites Revise Online Fashion Shopping , NY Times.
- Clothia.com [mentioned in NY Times article]
- Stylitics.com [mentioned in NY Times article]
- MyVirtualModel Can be viewed at [ MYMODEL.com 2D Virtual dressing room for tweens] My Virtual Model licenses a white label “Software as a Service” technology that enables customers to build customized virtual outfitting tools right into their web sites and mobile apps
- Swivel By Facecake Recently provided an on site mall tour, planned as an application for retail sites and home use. Kinect based application let’s you try on 2D images of garments virtually, seems to be no fit and size connection. Video link.
CES 2012: Virtual dressing room eliminates need to take off your clothes - Zugara [live video image] Live video based application let’s you try on 2D images of garments virtually, no fit and size connection. Video link.
And finially here is a link to the research link page at [TC]2 and also another link to Cornell University, College of Human Ecology related sites from their 3D body scanner research pages.
Unique Soultions/Me-Ality: Phase I towards Revolutionizing the Way We Shop
Unique Solutions Tanya Shaw, President [Founder] and CEO of Me-Ality by Unique Solutions
Exciting things are happening at Unique Solutions. Body scanners that aim to ensure the perfect fit have attracted a $30-million investment for Unique Solutions.
Northwater Capital Management Inc.’s Intellectual Property Fund is putting the money into Unique Solutions Design Ltd. The cash infusion will allow Unique Solutions to open more than 300 of its scanning kiosks across North America by the end of 2013. Tanya Shaw states, “As of June 2012, 500,000 people have been scanned and Me-Ality has over 65 size matching locations that are open in malls across the US.” [article link: Body scanners help shoppers get better fit]
Where will all of those body scanners be located? Click here to see if one will be near you.
Size matching service answers the frustrating question…What is my size?
No more will our shopping experience either in the real world or the on-line world involve totally guessing how that brand will fit you. It is an open secret that there are no consistent sizing standards for clothing brands so it is a total gamble for a prospective buyer especially when they are purchasing online how that particular brand will fit. Vanity sizing is common among brands and some brands use it to give them a psychological ” vanity edge.” [translation: $ales] Instead of “those lying eyes” in retail it is now “Oh those lying brand sizes,” combined with a dose of self-denial from all of us.
Some brands actively manipulate the sizes to appeal to the customers vanity ego as a competitive tool to use against other brands with similar price points, but other brands have honestly been trying to provide as much information as possible to empower their customers to order the best size for their body shape. They realize that the lo$$ percentage due to returns from chaotic and random sizing far outnumbers the additional rate of sales for “vanity sizing.”
The task in the past has been near impossible. Why? Because the culturally diverse US only has one sizing survey “public” database [SizeUSA] in the last 40 years. [see 3D Bodyscanner – Ready to Wear, Cornell University]
From the [TC]² site about Size USA:
[TC]² conducted a comprehensive sizing survey of the U.S. population, scanning nearly 11,000 individuals in 12 locations across the U.S. The first such survey in over 40 years, SizeUSA provides current measurements on the sizes and shapes of today’s adult consumer. [NY Times archive article]
Using this vast data base of scanned subjects, [TC]² can provide statistically accurate shape and sizing data analysis for manufacturers, brands, and retailers to improve fit.
SIZE UK using TC2 scanners
TC2 scanners were used to gather 3D body scans for SIZE_UK_STATISTICS during 2001 & 2002. During this time approximately 11,000 scans were captured and a total of 1.5 million measurements have been analysed.
Alvanon sizing surveys in China and France:
In 2008 Alvanon released the results of a body scanning survey in China and published those results: A 2008 fashion industry survey: The average US female is 5’4″ at 155 lb?
Alavanon also collaborated with: the Institute Francais du Textile et de l’Habillement (IFTH) to create standard French sizes for the apparel industry. The study, conducted by IFTH in 2006, which included more than 11,500 scans of French citizens in 37 different sites in France, provides powerful insight into how to improve fit for the French body for apparel brands both in France and those seeking to gain a competitive advantage in the market Link to announcement here.
Phase I? What is Phase II?
Now the title of this blog posting is that Me-Ality represents Phase I towards revolutionizing the way we shop. You may be wondering what is phase II? Really exciting developments are underway right now incorporating Microsoft Kinect based technology to initiate and fast forward development of the Phase II: that includes the development of holy grail home fit services for online shopping. Bodyscanning on the retail site “or at home” and in addition to accurate body size match up to a variety of brands. Once the users body is scanned, the user can then virtually select and try on brands [to test accurate fit] that are matched up to the bodyscan. Customized clothing or garment patterns can be ordered from in store “or home” using this service. Here is a link to some earlier research in this area from Cornell University College of Human Ecology. More in future posts.
Update: If Me-Ality installs 300 bodyscanner brand size matching services in shopping centers across North America, they will have addressed and resolved a portion of the accurate sizing issue for online retailers. Once your accurate body measurements are in the Me-Ality database, you can shop online for accurate fitting clothing.
About Unique Solutions Ltd.
They develop and commercialize advanced body measurement technologies and maintain the largest database of body measurements that accurately reflects the real size and shape of people. The company’s proprietary technology yields aggregate data and body measurement information that readily translates into better fitting products and services.
Me-Ality [formerly mybestfit]
What is it? Me-Ality is a FREE service that matches body sizing to specific brand sizing measurements that takes less than 10 minutes from Scan to Shopping Guide and makes it easy to find the best fitting clothes for your unique body. Customers are given a shopping list of jeans and apparel that will fit and flatter them. Specific brands and stores in the mall that carry those brands are listed to find their selections. They can also narrow their list to specific style features, or to favorite brands, or the price they want to pay.
Here is a link that will show you the current brands that are working with the Me-Ality service.
Body Scanners
The Intellifit Virtual Fitting Room is a high-accuracy scanner utilizing low emitting radio waves to capture 200,000 points of data on a fully clothed individual in less than 20 seconds. It includes a high-volume transaction server to store a customer’s shopping profile and body measurement information. The data collected can be converted into body measurements for the purpose of size and styling recommendations, product customization as well as health and wellness indicators and progress tracking.
Speciality Software
Online Size and Stylist Recommendation Software
Database Licensing
Unique licenses its customer measurement database for use in body research, and technical design applications. This data could also be licensed in aggregate to apparel brands, or used for marketing to consumers through their affiliate programs through our mybestfit service.
Custom Apparel/Products
The program is available to retailers and apparel and lifestyle manufacturers who sell apparel and lifestyle products through an e-commerce portal; or want to enhance their brick-and-mortar customer experience with the ability to quickly size-match customers to their products. Managed Business Services An all-inclusive scanning service offered to industries which require high volume scanning (measurement collection) during a specified and short period of time. This service is aimed at those who would like the scanner to come to their location as opposed to sending people to an outside location. Consumer Reports Fitness and wellness Comprehensive Measurements.
Links to Unique Solutions News
Alvanon: Innovative, Integrated Fit Solutions for the Apparel Industry
Alavnon uses and links cutting-edge technology to create an innovative transformational process that results in a full service fit and sizing company that offers brands the elusive goal of determining a custom sizing standard for their brand and developing custom forms [that reflect their clientele] and pattern blocks to ensure quality and consistent fit for their product.
Products and Services
Listed below are current products and services provided by Alvanon:
AlvaInsight develops fit specifications and grade rules to provide the best fit for the “sweet spot” of your target customer base. Integrated methodology combines technical design expertise, analytical skill, our global body measurement and shape database to redefine particular product specifications and apply anatomically aligned grade rules.
AlvaScan is the first step to improving fit by capturing the exact body specifications of your target market. This customized scanning service utilizes portable and easy-to-use, cutting edge technology to gather relevant data. AlvaScan utilizes safe millimeter wave scanners, to accurately measure a fully clothed body in seconds. These 3D full body scanners (produced by Intellifit Corp, with www.it-fits.info as the link underlying Intellifit Corp) have been employed worldwide and have gathered data for more than 200,000 subjects. This is the most cost-effective method for gathering large amounts of scan data accurately. We have also partnered with various National Size Surveys and have included this data in our measurement databases, giving more breadth and depth to our analysis.
AlvaForm fit mannequins represent the core body standard within a company’s supply chain. The AlvaForm Standard facilitates communication and creates alignment between all parties. The result is improved speed to market and an optimized fit approval process.
AlvaBlock Customized for you target customer – basic blocks for correct and consistent fit.
AlvaTraining Alvanon has partnered with several training authorities around the world to educate your supply chain on how to effectively implement and measure results for AlvaForm, AlvaBlock and AlvaPhoto systems. They also provide training to your designers, merchandisers, pattern makers, retail store staff on the new fit and how it relates to your customers.
Alvanon’s Latest Creation Your Personal Fit Model
News Articles on Alvanon.
More on Alvanon products and services here on previous blog posting.
Target Australia National Sizing Survey
Target Australia is partnering with Alvanon to body scan about 25,000 people from 4/30/12 to 5/30/12 to get their body measurements down to the exact millimetre. It will be recorded, processed and Target will come up with sizing that best suits the Target Australia population,”
Target managing director Dene Rogers predicts the technology will revolutionise the way we buy and fit clothes. Here is a link to the official Target Australia National Size Survey page describing the body scanning sizing project is here. Scroll down to see two official Target videos demonstrating and explaining the project.
Here is a detailed article on the Target Australia National Size Survey Project titled: Sizing up Australia – is Target’s 3D body scanner the shape of things to come? by Kate Kennedy, Lecturer, School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University.
This article mentions the long desired hope for development of a public domain database to inform both the industry and consumers on Australia’s size and shape. Many people within the Australia textile, clothing and footwear (TCF) industry will no doubt be viewing Target’s body-scanning project with a certain amount of envy.
I believe many people in the US (AAFA) American Apparel & Footwear Association [as well as Target US] will also be viewing Target Australia’s body-scanning project with a certain amount of envy. Development of an expanded SIZEUSA public domain database would be excellent for generic industry, consumers and educational researchers. Perhaps this is something that AAFA as an organization would consider supporting. [SizeUSA was a two-year National Sizing Survey was sponsored by clothing and textile companies, the Army, Navy and several universities. Lead researcher for the study was Dr. Cynthia Istook, a North Carolina State University textiles professor who teamed up with AlvaProducts using TC2 scanners –source] Matching brand specific items to customers is a win for customers who end up with reliable and good fit and retailers who increase sales [especially online] and reduce returns.
Link to article about the SizeUSA research: Changing the Way Apparel Companies Think about Body Shape.
Anyone that would like to submit a guest blog posting on the subject of expanding on the SizeUSA public database research project, please contact me at polvinem@buffalostate.edu
MVM: My Virtual Model Update
My Virtual Model.com
Direct update from Gregory Saumier-Finch, General Manager of My Virtual Model
We have updated our 3 products: Weightloss Avatar, Virtual Dressing Room, and Tog Outfitting Solution. A public API will be launched this summer that will enable developers to build their own weight loss applications for web and mobile. We are getting a lot of interest for the Tog Outfitting solution that uses professional photography and supports different mannequin poses. The Virtual Dressing Room can now use garments digitized at a lower cost per garment. gregory@mvm.com
Intellifit Bodyscan Technology for Public Sizing and Fit Services
Intellifit Technology Inventors
Ed Gribbin, the former president of Intellifit and, along with Albert Charpentier, are the co-inventors of the Intellifit scanner. The Intellifit body scanner uses radio wave technology (safe low-power millimeter waves) that were licensed from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in 2002. Ed states that “Intellifit is the only body scan technology that can collect body measurements while people remain fully clothed.” Ed and Albert are technological pioneers in public body scanning technology to determine size and fit. Their Intellifit technology is a critical foundation ingredient that is totally transforming and enabling an integrated process to target sizing and fit standards for retail brands.
In the article Body-scanning kiosk wows apparel shoppers , Ed and Albert stated the following:
At the time that the Intellifit scanner was developed, I was helping a few retailers improve their size specifications,” said Ed Gribbin, director of strategic services for AlvaProducts’ global consulting division and co-inventor of Intellifit. We tried to do a manual measurement survey using trained seamstresses, and we realized the limitations of taking 36 points of measure on a body manually. We looked to other body scan technologies as a first step, thinking that would be a way to automate the tailor. But all these technologies required the subject to get undressed, step into a booth, and basically get their picture taken. It was no faster than manually measuring someone.
It was also considered obtrusive to subjects in a store setting, according to Gribbin. Intellifit was thusly created as a consumer-friendly scanner, allowing users to be scanned fully clothed. Plus, downsizing the scanning chamber allows for a smaller footprint that retailers can accommodate.
“Consumers see the value proposition immediately,” said Intellifit co-founder and CTO Albert Charpentier. “They understand what it can do for them. Most people are willing to give a couple of minutes of their time to get scanned, because their sizing information is then online and they can utilize it to get better-fitting clothes.”
Edward A. Gribbin is currently the President of Alvanon, Inc. and Albert Charpentier is now the Acting VP Engineering for Unique Solutions/Me-Ality.
Alvanon
Ed Gribbin left Intellifit in 2005 to run his own consulting business (Fitspec, LLC) and licensed the data that Intellifit had collected (and continues to collect) and uses the data to advise retailers and brands on size and fit strategy and solutions. In mid-2006, he merged his consulting practice with Alvanon, who was already a leader in providing fit forms to apparel retailers and brands; the consulting division was known first as ‘Strategic Services’, then ‘AlvaSpec’ and today, ‘AlvaInsight’.He led that division from 2006 to the beginning of 2011 when he became president of Alvanon.
Upon joining Alvanon, Ed saw the need to continue to collect data, especially internationally, so Alvanon bought four or five scanners from Intellifit over the next few years. The scanning division is named ‘AlvaScan’ but it uses the Intellifit (radio wave) scanners; AlvaScan has now collected data in China, Australia, Germany and England and are planning scan studies in India and Brazil in the near future. Alvanon also owns scanners from TC2 (white light) and Human Solutions (laser) but currently they do not use them for large, public data collection situations. Most likely because “Intellifit is the only body scan technology that can collect body measurements while people remain fully clothed.” [author note: that might change with the introduction of the [TC]2 portable KX-16]
The 6/12 Stores article Fit Shapes Up by Faye Brookman states the following:
Alvanon works with brands to expand the number of people they can dress by focusing on body shapes, not just sizing. Originally developed in 2001 by Intellifit Corporation, Alvanon’s AlvaScan is a full-body scanner that captures accurate measurement data in seconds. That data is aggregated and used to create a 3D virtual body, the starting point for making a mannequin. Alvanon has built the largest global database of body measurements by placing the scanners in retail stores or malls.
“Every single one of our mannequins is based on thousands and thousands of body scans of real people,” Ed Gribbin says. “And when we go to our database, we have empirical evidence that backs up what real women out there who are size eight or 10 really look like.
Alvanon is the global leader in providing full service, integrated fit solutions for the apparel industry. With pioneering expertise in strategic fit consulting and the creation and implementation of customized fit mannequins and tools, we offer a holistic approach to solve fit and size issues. [Source: Alvanon About Us page]
Alvanon recently celebrated its 10th year of providing integrated fit technology based products and services to the global soft goods industry. Alvanon has made major positive and innovative effects on branding fit, sizing and product development fit products for companies worldwide. Mr Gribbin speaks about introducing those changes to the “notoriously resistant to change” apparel industry in this video. The video also features Janice Wang, CEO and Co-Founder of Alvanon, Jason Wang, COO and Co-Founder of Alvanon, and Don Howard, Director, AlvaInsight. In the video Janice shares that the origin of the Alvanon name is “Thomas Alva Edison, an innovator that was actually able to commercialize his innovations.” What a concept!
To quote Janice Wang, “At the end of the day we make fashion fit.” Happy 10 year anniversary Alvanon!
Unique Solutions/MyBestFit>Me-Ality
The about us section of the Unique Solutions Website states that following:
In 2002, Unique Solutions introduced the proprietary UniqueScan body scanning system (known as the Intellifit® Plus) using white light technology. In addition to over 200,000 points of body measurement, the Intellifit Plus can report BMI, height, weight, and health risk factors.
In 2009, Unique Solutions Design Ltd, acquired Pennsylvania based competitor, Intellifit Corporation. (Unique Solutions Design buys Intellifit, Business Journal. 2009 ) The Intellifit body measurement system uses radio wave technology and was the only system capable of scanning a clothed body. Unique Solutions applied their proprietary software and upgraded the technology (mybestfit) and offers consumers the ability to quickly determine their exact body measurements and be matched to apparel that fits, without having to remove their clothing.
With the launch of mybestfit in King of Prussia Mall – the largest retail shopping mall in the U.S. – Unique Solutions marked the beginning of public body scanning Intellifit technology and clothing size service to help consumers find their best fitting and most flattering styles from hundreds of brand name apparel lines. Because there is no sizing standard in the apparel industry, guessing the right size has been a source of frustration for customers, this service will match body size to brands and in turn reduce customer frustration with ill fit and reduce garment returns. mybestfit was changed to Me-Ality in the fall of 2011.
The Unique Solution/Me-Ality is a free (Intellifit) scanner-based clothes sizing service that records client data, including physical information such as 3-D body measurements, weight, height and BMI, as well as demographic and contact information such as email address, age, zip code and ethnicity. Their market research shows participating retailers increase sales when participating in our retail sizing solution service. Unique Solutions works with apparel and product manufacturers to develop size and fit solutions for their goods.
A 10 second fully clothed visit to a Unique Solution/Me-Ality mall kiosk will provide a free “scan, fit, shop” experience. Customers are matched to the right size and styles for their shapes then given a shopping list of jeans and apparel that will fit and flatter them. The Intellifit scan uses exact body measurements matched to apparel size specifications. They are informed as to what stores in that mall offers selections that will fit them. Customers can also narrow their list to specific style features, or to favorite brands, or the price they want to pay.
Customers view recommended styles on-screen at the kiosk and then print their final selections to go shopping. Their personalized Me-Ality Clothing Size Shopping Guide is emailed to their phone. They can log onto http://www.me-ality.com and create their personal profile and generate as many Shopping Guides, and learn about new brands and styles, as often as they like. Current brands Me-Ality works with are listed here.
You can search planned Me-Ality location for North America to see if a body scanning kiosk is planned for a shopping center near you.
Visit a Me-Ality Size Matching Station and be scanned to get matched to apparel that will fit. Then you can:
• Create and print your personal Shopping Guide
• Customize your fashion searches
• Search hundreds of styles
• Receive recommendations that will fit & flatter you best
• Make shopping fun and accurate
• Make shopping faster and easier knowing what size you wear
“[TC]2 , Textile Clothing technology Corporation: 3D Body Scanning Technologies
The mission of TC2 is to elevate the level of technology, manufacturing systems, and business processes employed in the global soft goods industry through research and development, education, training, and outreach. [TC]2 is a provider of direct and indirect technology products and services to industry.
Their Web site offers information on multiple types of body scanners for the global soft goods industry. 3D body scanning is just one research area of [TC]2.
Some end uses for 3D body scanning are: • Health/medical and fitness management • Body shape analysis • Sizing surveys • 3D product development for fashionable and functional apparel • Made-to-measure clothing • Clothing size and style recommendation • Virtual Fashion
An overview of some of the technologies used in the apparel industry are referenced in this article titled, “Sewn Product Technology.” by Kerry King Director of Product Development and Sustainability Initiatives at [TC]2 , Textile Clothing technology Corporation. According to Sally Aitkin on her Exploring the World of Sustainable Fashion blog article titled ” Innovative Technology–3D Body Scanning.
” The first two scanners were deployed by Levi Strauss and North Carolina State College of Textiles. They had a footprint of 180 square feet and had a price tag of $200,000.”
The price has been reduced dramatically since then and continues to drop. The current [TC]2 version of the Image Twin full body scanner uses white light and has a 4′ by 5′ footprint and scans in 6 seconds.
Image Twin Full Body Scanner
The [TC]2 KX-16 [laser] is similar to the [TC]2 NX-16 body scanner [white light] we have at Buffalo State college. We have it linked to the OptiTex application and we can easily create customized body scanned avatars to use directly in the OptiTex garment pattern application. Here is a link to the post: Body Scanning and OptiTex
[TC]²’s scanning technology scans the whole body in seconds and rapidly produces a true-to-scale 3D body model. The measurement extraction software package features capabilities for Virtual Fashion visualization with links to 3D garment pattern making applications from major industry CAD packages. Just a few end-uses for body scanning are at the beginning of this post. Link to a recent Textile World article: [TC]2 Introduces KX-16 Body Scanner
An email quote from David Brunner [dbruner@tc2.com] Vice-President, Technology Development at [TC]2 states:
Our “16 depth sensor” machine the KX-16 though is overall equal to full body scanners like our own NX-16 or laser scanners, and supports hundreds of measurements with better than 1/4″ accuracy. In fact, it is better on 8 of 10 technical points of comparison (3X more data, scan any color garment or skin, good hair coverage, faster scan, etc). It is only $10,000 (portable) or $12,500 in the booth version. I have attached a picture of the portable version just taken at an installation in Portugal (it can scan in open air with no problems). The booth version is much like the NX-16 booth.
TC2 Image Twin Single Windows Kinect Body Scanner
TC2 Image Twin Single Windows Kinect Body Scanner Accurate human avatars for all applications including size selection advice, virtual fashion and weight loss visualization. Retail uses for Kinect – to create your own personal avatar including face for size selection, virtual fashion [try-on], and weight loss simulation end uses for home, Web-based, retail or smart phone use. TC2 Kinect
TC2 offers Virtual Fashion System and V-Dresser: Web-based and Smart Phone Virtual Fashion
One of the unique and best features about this [TC]2 mobile smart phone system is that the user can either input manual measurements, upload a body shape scan from a home based Single Windows Kinect set-up, or upload your actual bodyscanner data from your own scanner or from a registered partner scanner! This is really 
great. It would really be great to be linked to the Me-Ality scanners that are being installed across North America or any other publicly placed bodyscaners.
[TC]2’s Virtual Fashion System – makes lifelike natural pose avatars and can show them with clothing, and can predict sizes or provide custom clothing specficiations. The TC2 system can utilize 3D clothing generated from V-Dresser, CLO3D/Marvelous Designer, OptiTex, Lectra, Maya, etc etc etc.
V-Dresser – TC2 is the world-wide distributor for V-Dresser. Leveraging recently released low cost scanning devices for home use, [TC]² has combined that low cost power and availability with its Size Selection, Avatar Creation, Virtual Fashion, and Weight Loss Visualization technologies developed over the years for use with high-accuracy 3D full body scans. The result is an extremely high value-low cost solution for retail, at-home, and web-enabled smart phone applications.
For more information on personal avatar creation email avatars@imagetwin.com
Portable Body Scanning: Spacevision Cartesia
[TC]2 offers Spacevision Cartesia the first portable body scanning system. Space Vision Incorporated is a venture company based on the results of research undertaken at Nagoya Institute of Technology and Keio University. Julia Haselhorst, strategic manager of The Textile & Fashion Hub stated that The Council of Textile & Fashion Industries of Australia (TFIA) Textile & Fashion Hub has the Spacevision Cartesia, which uses software from TC2.
“It is much lighter, more portable, accurate and price accessible than many of the other scanners on the market.”
It is light, portable and can be set up in 15 minutes. It can scan a body shape in 2 seconds.
Blog postings by Kerry King, Director of Product Development and Sustainability Initiatives at [TC]2
I am listing some resource blog postings relating to 2D/3D digital product development and digital textile printing, authored primarily by Kerry King, [kking@tc2.com] Director of Product Development and Sustainability Initiatives at [TC]2, Textile Clothing technology Corporation.
Kerry is currently Manager of Product Development and Sustainability Initiatives for [TC]2. She is responsible for managing applied research and consulting opportunities in areas related to new product development, garment fit and sizing, application of digital textile printing and 3D garment development technologies, and investigation of technology systems that support sustainability for product development and textile coloration.
Kerry oversees the operation of [TC]2’s digital print service and is a recognized speaker and author in the digital textile printing field. She is a senior member of AATCC for which she currently chairs the Printing Technology Committee and participates in the Concept 2 Consumer interest group as well as the Editorial Advisory Board.
- Fashion Goes Virtual Part I
- Fashion Goes Virtual Part II – Virtual Fashion for Consumers
- CAD as a Tool for Lean Product Development
- Technology Trends for Sewn Product Development
- Digital Textile Printing – Reality or Dream?
- Part IV – Digital Direct-to-Garment Printing
- ITMA Part II – Digital Textile Printing
- 3D Body Scanning for Apparel Sizing
- Moving Digital Printing Forward [2009]
This is an article by Sally Aitken titled: Sustainable Digital Printing Technology. It summarizes the services offered at TC2, the Textile Clothing technology Corporation such as the Inkdrop Printing Service.
CLO3D Student Virtual Fashion Collection Projects
The student projects posted here represent an optional CLO3D project that was part of a 4 week CLO3D module that was part of an Adobe FashionCAD class. No garment pattern skills or pattern making prerequisites are required for this class. Some apparel design and product development students are mixed in with fashion merchandising, fashion/textile design technology.
CLO3D was used exclusively as a fashion product visualization tool to view the 2D fashion product line concepts they created earlier in the semester in a 3D environment.
The specific challenge for this optional project was to develop CLO3D virtual representations [6] to match a previous 2D fashion product development class assignment that included concept,description, color, fabric, print pattern and line boards. They were to develop the garments , create CLO3D layouts illustrating different viewpoints and a CLO3D animation for each garment.
Examples of other student virtual fashion collection projects:
Cara Walsemann: The Flow of Nature Collection
Ebenezer Baawuah: Earthlistic Collection
Previous CLO3D post: CLO3D Student Virtual Fashion Concept Visualization Project
note: If you are an educator and have a 2D/3D apparel/textile product development prototype project that either you or your student(s) created and would like to share with readers of this blog, please contact me at polvinem@buffalostate.edu
copyright © 2012 by Elaine Polvinen all rights reserved.
CLO3D Student Virtual Fashion Concept Visualization Project
The video above is an example of Introduction to CLO3D to a FashionCAD class that focuses on developing intermediate Adobe skills for the Fashion Industry. Each semester we try to include one big final project that has the potential to incorporate some of the previous skills as well as introduce a 3D working environment to students. The students in this class are not exclusively apparel design students. Some apparel design and product development students are mixed in with fashion merchandising, fashion/textile design technology. No garment pattern skills or background are required for this class.
The video below has additional submissions.
Introducing CLO3D was an experiment conducted to determine how user-friendly and easy CLO3D would be in a general fashion Adobe design product development class as a fashion product visualization tool. The results were outstanding. The videos posted are the result of the very first CLO3D class assignments. Each student watched the CLO3D intro video tutorials and they were each assigned to develop 3 garments. They were to use fashion colors developed in class and if they used print patterns – they should be the ones developed earlier in class.
These first assignment videos illustrate partial results from the class.
Once the students familiarized themselves with the basic functions they began to really see the creative development possibilities and really began to enjoy working in CLO3D. This was a user-friendly application that they could use to quickly visualize their fashion product concept.
CLO3D was not used as a garment pattern making tool in this class – it was used exclusively as a fashion product visualization tool to view their 2D fashion concepts in a 3D environment. The time alloted for the CLO3D project was the last 4 weeks out of a 15 week semester.
The students were then challenged to an optional project to develop CLO3D virtual representations [6] to match a previous fashion product development class assignment that included concept,description, color, fabric, print pattern and line boards. Future posts will illustrate some of the student submissions.
note: If you are an educator and have a 2D/3D apparel/textile product development prototype project that either you or your student(s) created and would like to share with readers of this blog, please contact me at polvinem@buffalostate.edu
copyright © 2012 by Elaine Polvinen all rights reserved.
Digital Fabric Design: Creative & Technical Exploration
Using CLO3D to visualize engineered garments
This post summarizes a customized undergraduate student project that incorporated an exploration into and experimental development of vector based surface design graphics. The new methods explored by the student were non-repeat yardage & engineered garment design.
The aesthetic goal of this project is to capture the essence of Hawaii. Water life, flora, and volcanoes of Hawaii are incorporated into the surface designs. Research was conducted to integrate the surface theme with the traditional sarong garment styling as well as develop engineered garments inspired by the sarong.
Faith Scheffer Moeuhane-Fabric-Design-II
The challenge was to first conduct a variety of research then develop a Hawaiian theme that is integrated with current color and print trends. A new method of print design for the student involved four very large lengths of silk fabric (four sarongs) that did not contain a repeat. Another challenge was to explore and develop custom engineered prints for garment pattern design and construction. Garment patterns were traditionally developed and digitized into the OptTtex application. From there they were exported and then imported into Adobe Illustrator where the surface graphics were added. CLO3D was used as a 3D visualization aid for viewing surface graphic design placement.
Vector based applications are perfect for creation of either large width/length pieces of yardage or for developing graphics for full-scale garment patterns because vector files are resolution free thus the file sizes are manageable as compared to raster files. Vector files can be easily exported as a raster of any quality.
The wide scale (42″ by 72″) fabric non-repeat design was easily created by the student in Adobe Illustrator. The silk fabric yardage was printed at Inkdrop Printing. Garment patterns for this project were created using the traditional methods of flat patternmaking and then patterns are digitized into the computer. The full-scale garment patterns were then imported into Adobe Illustrator and surface designs were created directly onto the garments patterns. 3D visualization helps with design development. Fabric was digitally printed with the digitally embellished surface patterns at Spoonflower. The two garments are then constructed.
The resulting Moe’uhane, (which means “dream” in Hawaiian) collection consists of four sarong yardages and two Hawaiian-inspired garments. They were recently presented publicly at the BSCRUNWAY 5.0 annual fashion event sponsored by the Fashion and Textile Technology Program at Buffalo State College, USA.
Link to Faith Scheffer student designer interview
note: If you are an educator and have a 2D/3D apparel/textile product development prototype project that either you or your student(s) created and would like to share with readers of this blog, please contact me at polvinem@buffalostate.edu
copyright © 2012 by Elaine Polvinen all rights reserved.
2D/3D Fashion Product Development Prototype Flamingo Pua VII
– Summary
Flamingo Pua Collection
The Flamingo Pua project involved the design, development and creation of prototypes of a collection of 6 garments from initial concept to virtual to real garment prototypes.
The use of 2D and 3D applications throughout enables very quick response design development. This project took approximately 3 weeks from start to finish. Applications used were Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, OptiTex, and CLO 3D.
Photoshop was used to develop the initial concept board, Illustrator was used to develop print pattern repeats and create the garment basic silhouettes, silhouettes with print patterns and all full size garment pattern surface design and graphics.
OptiTex is a very easy to use multi-dimensional application. For this project it was used for garment pattern development, initial 3D garment testing before and after graphics were applied, and export of garment patterns to Illustrator.
CLO3D was used to develop Animations for the virtual fashion show and the four-way layouts.
The four-way static posed layouts could also easily be generated in the OptiTex application.
Other product development steps you would need to complete if you were ever planning on some sort of limited production would be to create a specification pack [spec pack or tech pack] that included all detailed garment measurements for each size you are planning to order the garment in and every single other material [fashion fabric/lining, interfacing], notion and embellishment needed to reconstruct the garment. Last but not least by any means would be to put together a costing sheet that includes all costs associated with producing the item. I will put together a follow-up post in near future.
Hope you enjoyed the series.
note: If you are an educator and have a 2D/3D apparel/textile product development prototype project that either you or your student(s) created and would like to share with readers of this blog, please contact me at polvinem@buffalostate.edu
Previous posts:
2D/3D Fashion Product Development Prototype Flamingo Pua VI: – Runway
2D/3D Fashion Product Development Prototype Flamingo Pua V: – digital fabric printing of engineered garment pattern prototypes.
2D/3D Fashion Product Development Prototype Flamingo Pua IV: CLO3D virtual fashion show
2D/3D Fashion Product Development Prototype Flamingo Pua III: garment pattern development in OptiTex, garment sketch development, engineered garment pattern surface design development, OptiTex 3D simulation test.
2D/3D Fashion Product Development Prototype Flamingo Pua II: color palette, print pattern and garment sketch development.
2D/3D Fashion Product Development Prototype Flamingo Pua I: inspiration, initial research for concept & silhouette development
copyright © 2012 by Elaine Polvinen all rights reserved.
Virtual Fashion Technology 
