[HN Gopher] Refashion: Reconfigurable Garments via Modular Design
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Refashion: Reconfigurable Garments via Modular Design
Author : PaulHoule
Score : 32 points
Date : 2025-11-10 13:19 UTC (9 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (arxiv.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (arxiv.org)
| cluckindan wrote:
| Something akin to this already exists for
| military/outdoor/tacticool use: the PALS system.
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pouch_Attachment_Ladder_System
| PaulHoule wrote:
| Reminds of when I was a hippy who was skeptical of the military
| but had an LC-1 ALICE Pack or when I got the ALICE belt when
| I'd developed a shapeshift based on Terra from _Teen Titans._
| skware wrote:
| Very cool paper! Seems to me like legos for clothing.
| NoSalt wrote:
| Luckily for me, I have no "fashion". The extent of what I do have
| is limited to the latest cool graphic T-Shirt I can find. My wife
| says I have too many, but I disagree.
| graypegg wrote:
| What a neat idea! I see this as a sort of... clothing gridfinity.
| [0] Basically a few interfaces to implement and anything unspec'd
| is fair game to be creative with for your own use/small scale
| production, and everything still mostly clicks. It's neat to
| imagine a "more serious" version of this, where we have an "ikea
| for fashion" or something, but that might be difficult; the
| patchy-look is going to limit things to a particular style and it
| won't have mass-appeal, but that can also be a positive! Ex:
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| > P6 was particularly excited about using the system's
| constraints to explore visual patterns such as patchwork and
| cutout.
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| Would be cool if people could jump into making their own clothes
| with out requiring the up front expensive of
| needles/thread/sewing machine. Just buy the material you need and
| go!
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| [0] https://gridfinity.xyz/catalog/
| Jonovono wrote:
| I love the picture painted of an ikea for fashion. I'm working
| on an idea where instead of searching for individual garments
| you first create the outfit (using gen ai) and then shop the
| complete look (I basically reverse search the pieces of the
| generated outfit to find similar items)
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| But it would be so cool if you could like print the fabric
| pieces and send them and the person assembles their created
| outfit.
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| This definitely got me thinking
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| https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/dress-better-w-make-my-outfit/...
| graypegg wrote:
| That's a really cool idea! I'm not sure of the specifics, but
| I believe digital printing on fabric isn't outrageously
| expensive, and being custom made per layout would let you
| hide a lot of the patch-like structure with the actual
| design. (I imagine it would be a lot less noticeable if a
| seam follows a line in the design, or a pleat like in the
| dress examples from the paper) Insanely cool value prop to
| get some of these patches in the mail, that assemble into a
| choice of a few different garments, all pairing well
| together. And if you like a fabric/pattern from a prior
| piece, now it can be a highlight in another garment.
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| Please make a men's size+cut version if you do that, you have
| an interested customer #1!
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