Sounds like my dream industry where a fully automated tailoring machine was combined with body scanning. So you could, once a year or whenever, get a scan and have your body in the system, and from there, be able to a) shop online seeing clothes rendered on your body type b) with enough maturity for the system, have the ability to have your favorite styles created in your favorite fabrics on-demand, ready to pick up at a local store which keeps the tailor machine and spools of material handy (with more a delivery away).

I guess there's a race on, between this vision of clothing tech and that of the film of coordinated nanobots that can instantly reconfigure to form any desired clothing. Gain a little weight? Just pour on a teaspoon more nanobots.

If you really want to dream, throw 3d-weaving into that process to make things actually fit your form instead of flat, sewn-together patches stretching over you.

We're getting there: http://www.shapeways.com/blog/archives/24028-the-art-of-engi...

Youve identified a garage 3D printing startup

Yeah, that reminds me of this company https://formygrips.com/