Body Scanner: One Size Fits All

Body Scanner One Size Fits All
With magazines giving the image that today's ideal body is tall and slim, retailers are creating clothes that will fit that body type.

However, for most people, "tall and slim" is not the case. When shopping for clothes, people face many difficulties. For example, someone with wider hips, but a very slim waist, may not be able to find jeans that fit perfectly.

That is where fashion technology comes in.

"Apparel companies want their sizing systems to look like an ideal person, and then they build a sizing system around that person. But that person doesn't look like most of us," J.T. Clark professor Suzanne Ashdown said.

To rid this frustration, the body scanner has been introduced to the fashion world. Body scanners have been used in the medical field before, but only recently have they begun to be used for fashion purposes.

The body scanner was introduced to help make sizing easier and more accurate. It is a very easy and harmless process that uses both lasers and white lights. Subjects step inside a dark booth and stand with their arms partially out and their legs shoulder-width apart. The lasers or lights go down the body, taking measurements at different angles and different positions. The whole process takes only about 12 seconds.

The scanner will be used for many different purposes in the future.