In the dynamic world of fashion, what is the current trend? Inaugurating technology with the alluring concepts of fashion!
Fashion retailing is a complex business with growing competition among the retailers. Augmentation of trends has revolutionized the retail business; amicable to all that fashion is an integral part of the retail industry as well as brands. Fashion retailers today, are more concerned, with technology as their new sales mantra. Brands and retailers focus on new and attention grabbing techniques to allure the customers. The latest progress in the retail field is the application of various technological processes to attract, convince and sell to the customers.
Digital Fashion Magazines:
Gone are the times, when one flips through the pages of a fashion magazine to get a glimpse of the latest trends and styles. The novel digital market offers the fashion savvy shoppers with all the perks of print media, along with the nearness and information of the current days technological advancements. Discounted apparels and other fashion accessories can be found online proving a distinguished successful market for fashion clothing and other accessories. This makes shopping, an easier task with astute styles of apparels ready and available for buying.
3D Body Scanning Application in Apparel Making:
3D Body scanning technology produces a 3D model through scanning. An individual stands in the scanners view, while it captures his body image and produces 3D images within seconds. The scanner uses a series of light sensors to produce a 3D image. Images are captured in 360 degrees within a short period of time along with body measurements and human body surface. This data is then forwarded to the manufacturer who uses his creativeness and creates the garment in a very short time with the exact measurements that matches the consumer.
This technology provides real time information to the apparel industry, wherein clothes will be manufactured with attached labels mentioning the bust, waist, and hip sizes thereby guiding the consumers to select a garment with perfect fittings.
Virtual Try-on Solutions:
This process provides the customer with a virtual image of how he or she will look in a particular garment. General information about the consumer like, small waist, narrow shoulders, long hair etc is entered in the computer. The software in the computer develops an image of the consumer based on these descriptions and displays it on the screen.
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The consumer can make modifications on the displayed virtual image so as to match it with himself. The computer then displays various types of garments on the screen. The consumer chooses different types of clothing and tries them on his virtual image available on the computer screen. The computer applies this clothing image on the virtual image of the consumer created and displays the picture on the screen. The image is also rotated in 360 degrees so that the consumer can get a perfect idea of the fitting. The computer highlights areas of good and bad fit, and guides the consumer to select the most appropriate apparel.
Mobile Point of Sale (POS): Point of Sale (POS) is a location where customers pay and buy the goods. Generally during peak sales period, there would a long queue of customers waiting for their turn to pay the bill. Sales counters are of fixed size, and hence support limited number of customers forcing them to endure long lines.
RFID in Apparel Retailing: During the peak seasons of sales, manual process break down. Staff members become besieged, and cannot be replenished. RFID enables the retailers to confirm the items that need to be refilled, and makes sure that the apparels are available on the store racks when customers want to buy them.
Source: Fibre2fashion.com To read more about RFID, what it is, does and the benefits for the apparel industry, check this article: RFID in Apparel Industry: What is it, How it Works and the Benefits. |
Retailers today are making optimum utilization of the internet and leveraging its social benefits. Though their techno savoir-faire is utilized in novel methods, shoppers will be motivated to buy only according to their requirements. Hence it is also important for the retailers to keep abreast of the customer psychology knowing their current choices and preferences to as to retain their customers in the years to come.
