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Crowdfunding is an increasingly popular way to gain funds as well as support for many individuals and companies.  People use it as a method to achieve all sorts of goals and to gain enough money to open any kind of company.  Typically, would-be producers utilize crowdsourcing to fund the creation of a company, a project, or a line of products, but a startup called Gustin looks to employ it as a means of backing the creation of individual products.  In the same way that crowdfunding brings together creators and potential consumers on a more personal level and gets individuals involved, Gustin does so for particular items.  Its niche is menswear, and its creators intend it to change the way men buy clothes by creating a fully crowdfunded model for determining which jeans it makes.  Gustin’s focus is exclusively on high quality clothing, and its model cuts out a lot of the cost to make it more affordable. Read more »

Despite the fact that human bodies come in an unlimited variations of shapes and sizes, it is becoming increasingly difficult for many people to find clothing that fits them appropriately.  Many mainstream clothing outlets sell clothes designed specifically for one or two body types.  Buying online is also risky since users don’t have the option of trying clothes on first.  Cool product in technology Fitbay wants to be the solution to this problem by presenting users with a customized online marketplace that only offers clothes to a user that will fit him or her.  Fitbay wants to act as a personal online shopping place where worries about choosing the right size are no longer something for shoppers to concern themselves with when looking for new items.  Users create personal profiles on the Fitbay site and the company uses their data to populate their personal online stores only with clothes that fit them.  Anyone who has a problem creating an account on this cool product’s website may need assistance from a computer support professional. Read more »

Finding affordable clothing that still maintains a strong sense of someone’s personal style and looks great is not as easy as most people would imagine.  Many who have a particular sense of style often have to sacrifice those preferences due to financial setbacks or issues of availability.  Cool person in technology Katrina Lake wants to make finding one’s personal style and being able to flaunt it as simple as becoming a member of a subscription service.  Lake’s company Stitch Fix provides what is, essentially, personal fashion consulting by subscription.  Users pay Stitch Fix a monthly fee of twenty dollars and receive a box of five clothing items to try on for themselves every thirty days.  Customers decide what items to send back and which to keep.  They only pay for the items they decide to hold onto and simply return what they don’t want. Read more »

Shopping online for clothing is simultaneously incredibly convenient and potentially worrying.  While there is no question that purchasing items online and having sites deliver them directly to someone’s front door is far easier for people than going to the local mall, the question about how a particular item of clothing will fit is constantly in the back of many online shoppers’ minds.  Buyers just can’t guarantee that an item is going to fit the way they need it to when they spend their hard-earned cash online.  Cool product in technology Virtusize wants to change this reality for the millions of users buying clothes online every day.  Virtusize helps customers accurately measure the clothing they are shopping for online so they can ensure it will fit when it arrives at home.  People access the specialized online tool through the websites of affiliated online retailers.  Users click the “Virtusize” button on these websites when shopping for clothes to access this cool product.  Anyone who can’t access Virtusize on a site that advertises its use needs to contact a tech support professional to determine what is causing the problem. Read more »

Men notoriously dislike shopping for clothing. Then along came the Hointer Beta Store, adding robots to the equation to make the experience as fast and simple as ordering a cup of coffee! Yes—you heard right—robots! Read more »

One of the biggest downfalls of shopping for clothes online is the inability to try something on before a customer makes a purchase.  With the exception of casual clothing like t-shirts and sweatpants, trying on clothing to see how it fits is an essential step in choosing someone’s wardrobe.  While shopping online beats out going to a store in convenience, it will always remain an issue that people cannot try on the clothes they purchase first.  Cool person in technology Ankus Seghal founded BranDiD to erase this problem and introduce a service that allows people to try on the clothes they want to buy even when shopping on the web.  Read more »

Customization is a theme that comes up over and over again when reading about new tech startups.  Whether it’s the ability to change the look of a mobile phone or modify a service exactly to a customer’s liking, many companies are appealing to customers’ wishes to make whatever they buy uniquely them.  Now this is true even for what people wear thanks to cool product Bow & Drape.  Read more »