It’s the one downside of online shopping (well, if you don’t count the mounting credit card debt); ripping open a package only to discover the fabulous dress you bought is the wrong size or an unexpected shade of ‘not in a million years’ orange.
Pricey shipping often prevents shoppers from returning items overseas. And they either sit in the back of the wardrobe collecting guilt-ridden dust, sold on eBay for often a fraction of the price or handed on to an unsuspecting friend who may or may not be able to pull off ‘million years orange’.
Luckily, there’s some good news for online shopping fans. One retailer has taken the marvelous step of creating a mobile dressing room to make buying clothing less of a hit-and-miss experience.
Fit For Me, an option within ModCloth’s app, allows customers to type in their measurements and find top-rated clothing items based on reviews by members with similar sizing.
It’s just like shopping with your closest girlfriends, although ModCloth’s online community will probably be more honest when it comes to if your bum looks big in those pants – because they’ve got exactly the same body shape as you.
When I plugged my bust, height, waist and hip measurements into the Fit For Me app, it only came back with seven recommendations specific to my body. So either I have a really weird body, one that the majority of ModCloth’s customers don’t have or my cms to inches conversion was totally off.
When I broadened my search out to be purely based my height there were thousands of options to choose from. The best bit is if you see something you like you can click on it and access multiple customer reviews and ratings based on Fit, Length and Quality. If you’re a regular on this site, you’ll probably never make a dud purchase ever again.