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Article: Computerized custom-cut clothing ... its time is now. (column)
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- Daily News Record
- Article date:
- April 11, 1986
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Computerized Custom-Cut Clothing...Its Time is Now It gives you a 21st century feeling. You're in a casually decorated suite of rooms, in a fine office building in Cincinnati. You're seated in a comfortable sofa or armchair. On a table before you are a variety of worsted fabrics bound in swatch books. You're shown several suit models. You make your choice and stand up to be measured for a custom suit.
This is where the 20th century ends and the 21st begins. You stand up in front of a measuring device that concerns itself with various vertical body measurements. The device, moving to various points on your body, does its job.
Minutes later two other ...