Fitters, size sets and shift rotas
Sending fitters and sample sizes to every site means travel, scheduling around shifts, and the staff who are off that day — then doing it again for every new starter and every contract renewal.
Uniform suppliers, rental programs and employers send each wearer a scan link, or put the scan inside their ordering portal. Two smartphone photos, taken in everyday work clothes, return the measurements your size chart uses — for one new starter or a whole workforce.
The problem
Every way of collecting sizes today trades cost against reliability — and a wrong size costs the same twice: once to ship it, and again to swap it.
Sending fitters and sample sizes to every site means travel, scheduling around shifts, and the staff who are off that day — then doing it again for every new starter and every contract renewal.
Asking wearers for their size is cheap but unreliable. Sizes differ between brands and garments, and a wrong guess comes back as an exchange, a second shipment, and a new starter still waiting for kit.
A review of waist-circumference studies reported measurement error from 0.7 cm to as much as 15 cm, with trained measurers at the lower end.1 Across many fitters and sites, the same body can be recorded several different ways.
How a rollout works
The scan slots into the ordering process you already run. Your system holds the wearer list, the size charts and the orders; the scan supplies the measurements.
Sizes chosen from each wearer's scan
| Wearer | Scan | Jacket | Trousers | Shirt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| W-0142 | Scanned | 40R | 32 / 31 | 15½ |
| W-0143 | Scanned | 12 | 12 Long | 12 |
| W-0144 | Invited | — | — | — |
| W-0145 | Scanned | 46L | Made to measure | 17½ |
| W-0146 | Scanned | 38S | 30 / 29 | 15 |
Illustrative — sizes come from your own charts and rules
What changes
The same two photos serve the supplier, the employer and the wearer.
Sizes are chosen from each wearer's measurements instead of a guess, and the measurements behind every order stay on record — so when an exchange does happen, you can see why.
New starters scan before their first shift, so uniforms can ship before they arrive instead of after a fitting appointment. Seasonal and multi-site hiring stops waiting on fitters.
Anonymised measurements across a workforce show the real spread of body sizes, for stock planning and for checking your range. In a TUC survey of more than 5,000 women, only 29% said the protective equipment they wore was designed for women.2
1 Verweij et al., “Measurement error of waist circumference: gaps in knowledge”, Public Health Nutrition (2013).
2 Trades Union Congress survey on personal protective equipment and women, as reported by Safety+Health (2017).
Who it's for
Integration
White-label capture or a single API call — see the developer docs for the request format and outputs.
FAQs
The supplier or employer sends each wearer a scan link, or embeds the scan in its ordering portal. The wearer takes a front and a side photo with any smartphone, in everyday work clothes, and the measurements your size chart uses come back in seconds. Your ordering system turns them into sizes; nobody has to travel to a fitting.
No. Fitted clothing gives the best results, but everyday work clothes are fine — wearers only take off coats and bulky layers. The scan runs in a mobile browser or inside your own app, so there is nothing to install, and any smartphone camera works.
Average accuracy is 97% in everyday clothing, across 18 standard measurements, tested on people photographed in varied clothing and compared with 3D body scans. For context, reliability studies of trained measurers using a tape report waist measurement errors of 1.3–6.5 cm, and the body itself changes through the day. Every wearer is measured the same way, so results don't depend on which fitter holds the tape. The best test is your own: run a pilot with a group of wearers and compare the sizes with your current process.
Measurements arrive as structured data, and your ordering system maps them to your size charts and garment rules — the same way it would use tape measurements. Wearers who fall outside the chart can be flagged for made-to-measure. Measurements describe the body, not a size, so the same scan works across every garment and manufacturer in the contract.
Yes. Build a custom measurement profile in the live demo — any circumference or length between points on the body — and send it to us as JSON. Your partner code then returns exactly that set on every scan, named the way your patterns are.
Photos are processed in memory and deleted once the result is returned; they are never stored. A scan needs no name, email or employee number: your system keeps its own wearer reference and attaches the measurements when they come back. See the data handling details.
The scan reconstructs each wearer's own body shape, and the model was trained on images spanning body types, skin tones, clothing and backgrounds. Because it returns measurements rather than a size, your chart decides the fit — women's cuts, extended sizes and made-to-measure included.
Start with the free live demo: two photos return measurements and a 3D body model in seconds. For a pilot, we set up your measurement set and a scan link for a group of wearers, so you can compare the results with your current sizing process.
Tell us about your contract or workforce, and we'll set up your measurement set for a pilot group.
Or write to us directly: info@snapmeasureai.com