With so many different body types, it’s hard to find a shirt that fits well right off the rack. The average department store only carries the usual small, medium, and large to accommodate dozens of body builds; these shirts leave much to be desired and leave the wearer looking sloppy.
Terrible selections of affordable and well-fitting clothes is what inspired Chicago inventor SiDi Huang to create the ZipSeam – a device that allows the user to quickly and inexpensively tailor a baggy shirt into a custom-fit fashion piece. Traditional tailoring methods involve either paying a seamstress more than $20 per shirt, or spending hours with the thread and needle. After dozens of prototypes, Huang arrived at the final design which is currently raising funds on Kickstarter.
Using a combination of lightweight, flexible plastic tubing and a plastic cord, the ZipSeam replaces the existing seam down the side of the shirt (similar to traditional tailoring). Smaller segments can be used to taper to curvier figures. It is as easy as 1, 2, 3 to tailor a shirt using the ZipSeam. First, place it along the side seam of the shirt, trimming off however much fabric you want; then push the fabric into the channel using any card (the ZipSeam will not steal your credit card information); lastly slide the thin cord into the channel, locking in the new seam.
With 20 days left to go, the ZipSeam has raised $30,651 , more than 10 times more than the initial goal of $2,500. To order your set of the ZipSeam go to www.kickstarter.com
1 set is $8 and 3 sets cost $20.
