> "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:

http://youtu.be/K6NgMNvK52A

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.