> "So my long standing fantasy has been to do a line of mass customization clothing. My thought is this would potentially be a means to leverage technology to provide semi custom clothes at a fraction of the bespoke price."
I have similar dreams. I have some ideas on how to simplify the design of Jacquard looms, which I see as a vehicle to get there, but these ideas are just at the exploratory stage at the moment.
If Jacquard looms are new to you, I can recommend this video introduction:
Something I think about often is how to roll out tools like this to the mass market in a positive way. I can see some downsides in democratising fashion, but handled right I think it could be an enormous source of joy.
I have long wanted to do something in clothing, but I am very aware that bespoke clothing is simply out of reach, price-wise, for most people. My mother sews beautifully and trained with a tailor briefly in her teens. She sewed a lot of my clothes when I was growing up and I routinely stood for fittings. She also sewed a lot of clothes for my kids when they were little. I lived far away and took measurements periodically. In addition to knowing how to take measurements, I am handy with a seam ripper. But the kind of skill my mother has is beyond me.
So my long standing fantasy has been to do a line of mass customization clothing. My thought is this would potentially be a means to leverage technology to provide semi custom clothes at a fraction of the bespoke price.
I would love to see what this organization can do to lower the barriers between me and this daydream of mine. Because it has always seemed to be an aspiration completely out of reach for me. But I only have some vague idea of what they do thanks to one of the comments * here, not because of the information on the landing page of their site.
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15846271