Jeans almost never fit right, especially if you are a women. It’s not just that there are many different styles of jeans, it’s that jeans need to be fitted really well to look their best and people are so different that if you gathered a hundred women only a few of them would be able to swap jeans and look just as good as the original owner. People have many different shapes, so tailored jeans are the only way to guarantee a fit.
Imagine walking into a department store, browsing to find the cut and color you want in your jeans, stepping into a booth to get scanned, and coming back a few hours later or the next day to pick up your new pair of custom fitted jeans.
The hardware to do this sort of scanning is already available with Microsoft’s Kinect, and Leap Motions hardware, which should be out sometime this year, is even better. What would be required is to make a booth where one or several 3d scanners can sweep over the customer’s body to collect the 3d point cloud which will later be turned into the model of legs.
Next, the fabric patterns that need to be cut are calculated using the model and the desired style.
These patterns are then cut out of the jean material, by a CNC-like machine, and given to the tailor to sew together into the final product.
Another feature made possible by this setup is letting customers see what they would look like wearing the jeans before they are even made. After the 3d scan is complete, a computer-generated pair of jeans could be placed on the image of the customer, or even shown in real time if there is a screen in the room. I’ve seen hacky examples of this already done with Kinect.
Also, the store would have about a hundred sample pairs of jeans. They wouldn’t fit perfectly, but the would give a good idea of how it would look overall and of the quality of the material.
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