bdavro23
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You ordered a closet?
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You ordered a closet?
He ordered 11 sport coats so he can talk about I Sarti Italiani
But I still don’t know what I’m talking about, so I guess I’ll move on to SLP.He ordered 11 sport coats so he can talk about I Sarti Italiani
The 3 on the left look line mine. Really like the shoulders.
Cool! Good luck with it. I thought this was an interesting write-up about the difficulty of trying to use tech as part of a bespoke process. https://bratheory.com/hiatus/Yes. On that subject, I`m working on a project to develop proper bespoke patterns from an algorithm. I`ve seen other companies attempt it but I think they only had techies and didn`t have a good patternmaker on board. We need some beta testers so we are offering MTM suits made in Europe at a deeply discounted price in order to help us refine the algorithm. More info here
I think I see some familiar items.
Are you sure this is Sicily? I don't see any crucifixes or pictures of Padre Pio.
Cool! Good luck with it. I thought this was an interesting write-up about the difficulty of trying to use tech as part of a bespoke process. https://bratheory.com/hiatus/
same statement jumped out to me. Focus on developing technology without knowing intimately how the product is made and the variables in making it. If you don't understand the variances of the making/fitting, how can you know if the technology is doing what it should be doing.That was an interesting read. I think the most important phrase of the whole article was this-
"Our biggest challenge was not the technology, but the underlying methodology.
We could not automate that which we did not know how to do by hand"
Agreed. I appreciated the article because it was a rare admission in the tech sector that tech alone often can't replace the knowledge of legacy operators in the same space. I know I'm generalizing (and I'm not part of the industry), but that seems to be an almost deliberate blindspot for companies trying to apply technology to a lot of traditional crafts. I can't say I was surprised that they hadn't adequately learned about what people had spent generations figuring out how to do by hand. It sounds like your team is on a much better path.That was an interesting read. I think the most important phrase of the whole article was this-
"Our biggest challenge was not the technology, but the underlying methodology.
We could not automate that which we did not know how to do by hand"
I read, recently, about a discipline called brafitting, developed in London, and perfected, of all places, in Poland. They have special and ingenious ways of measuring breasts that supposedly create the best-fitting bras anywhere. Perhaps had she gone and studied with these people and then trying to automate THAT, she would have succeeded. I think it's also what a lot of the other companies have done in their attempts to do this- had some techies join with people who had limited undertsanding of patternmaking and garment construction create these algorithms. Two of the four lead people on our team are bespoke tailors, and I also have 25 years of factory experience. We are trying to automate what we already do manually when we draft and fit. I hope it will work; maybe it won't, at least at first, but at least we are attempting it.