Digital Body Measurement for Custom Clothing: The Complete Guide for Tailors & Made-to-Measure Businesses (2026)
If you run a custom clothing business, you already know the tension: your reputation depends on a perfect fit, but every new client needs a measuring appointment. That appointment takes 30–45 minutes, limits how many clients you can serve, and confines your business to customers who can travel to you. Digital body measurement for custom […]
How AI and 3D Body Scanning Are Finally Solving the Clothing Fit Problem
The Future of Sizing: How AI and 3D Scanning Are Eliminating the Fit Problem For centuries, the garment industry has operated on a fundamental compromise: standardized sizing that fits almost no one perfectly. We’ve accepted that clothes come in small, medium, and large arbitrary categories that ignore the infinite variation of human bodies. We’ve normalised […]
Body Scanning Apps vs Traditional Measurements: Which Is Better?
The $600 Billion Sizing Problem Fashion e-commerce returns cost retailers over $600 billion annually, with 60-70% of returns attributed directly to poor fit. For business leaders managing online retail operations, uniform programs, or custom clothing services, the sizing question seems straightforward: should you invest in body scanning apps or rely on traditional tape measurements? The […]
E-commerce Return Rates: The Hidden Cost of Poor Sizing Data
When an online fashion retailer processes 10,000 orders monthly and 30% come back due to fit issues, they’re not just handling returns; they’re watching profits evaporate through returns logistics, processing costs, and environmental waste. For every $100 in returned merchandise, retailers lose $10–25 in operational costs alone, before accounting for lost sales, damaged goods, and […]
Workwear Sizing Challenges: Problems & Modern Solutions
When a manufacturing facility orders uniforms for 500 workers and 30% come back for exchanges, that’s not just an inconvenience—it’s a massive operational problem. Add travel costs for on-site measurement teams, administrative overhead, and the safety risks of ill-fitting protective equipment, and workwear sizing becomes a critical challenge affecting budgets, efficiency, and worker safety. For […]
Esenca Sizing Wins Best Technology for Product Development at PCIAW® Awards 2025
Esenca Sizing Wins Best Technology for Product Development at PCIAW® Awards 2025. 20 November 2025. London – Esenca Sizing is proud to announce that it has won the Best Technology for Product Development Award at the PCIAW® Awards 2025, recognising its advanced machine learning body, hand and foot measurement technology and its impact on fit, […]
A virtual room for a palpable future
Whether we’re aware of it or not, we all use some sort of cutting-edge technology in our daily lives, from search engines to facial recognition on our phones, the advertisements we receive on any website, and the recommendation systems on the most popular streaming apps. These are only a few basic examples, but there are […]
Virtual assistants – tools designed for the future, today
Virtual Assistants are no longer a matter of science fiction in today’s technological landscape. They’ve practically become indispensable, being everywhere in the online space, from support tools to intelligent guidance for buying items. The number of available virtual assistants on the market is only increasing, and they are set to become an even more integrated […]
Workwear: an investment that keeps paying off
Nowadays, workwear reflects a company’s professionalism at the workplace, particularly in the manufacturing and corporate sectors. In addition, it is expected to remain a main factor in these sectors’ everyday businesses, as the increasing occurrence of accidents at the workplace is expected to promote wearing appropriate apparel. The International Labor Organization (ILO) reports that around 2.3 million […]
Returns vs revenue: a battle of perspective
During the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve learned a great deal about doing business remotely, managing staff working from home, and adapting our workflow to the client’s needs. It was a challenging period for everyone, and you might think that the owners of e-commerce shops were the lucky ones. Online sales saw a huge boost, and the […]