Size charts and FabFit

Size charts let the stylist turn the sizes a shopper gives into their size in the piece in front of them. One brand's M is another's L, so each chart belongs to a brand and its garment types.

What a chart holds

The Size charts tab holds each chart's:

• brand, and up to ten garment types it covers;
• section: women, men, kids or unisex;
• kind: body measurements or garment measurements;
• size system: IN, US, UK, EU, Gulf or letter sizes;
• fit (slim, regular or relaxed) and stretch (none, some or high);
• up to four parts, for sets such as a lehenga, blouse and dupatta;
• up to 30 rows, with measurements in centimetres.

A product uses a chart chosen for it, or the chart that matches its brand and type automatically.

Reading a chart with FabFit

Upload a brand's chart as an image or PDF (up to 8 MB), or paste its text, and the FabFit charts agent reads it into a draft chart. It transcribes only: inches are converted to centimetres and half widths doubled, with a note each time, and anything a person should check is flagged.

Only a person verifies

A draft chart reaches no screen. A person checks every number against the brand's chart, saves any edits, and presses Verify this chart. Only verified charts go to the screens.

How sizes are suggested on the screen

• Shoppers tap the sizes they know, or skip. Sizes are kept as labels, never as measurements, and the camera never guesses a size.
• The stylist works out the shopper's size in a piece from, in order: a size they gave in the same brand, another brand's verified chart, or a general reading of the label.
• It gives one size when it is sure, two neighbouring sizes when the shopper sits between them ("Take M and L to the trial room."), or asks.
• Fit learning: Ateliq compares the size suggested and tried with the size bought and kept, over the last year, and marks each product as running small, true to size or running large once it has enough outcomes (at least 8 for a product, or 20 for a chart). The next suggestion weighs that.

Size systems on the screens include letter sizes, UK, US, EU and Indian dress sizes, waist sizes, blouse sizes, kids' sizes by age or height, and ring and bangle sizes. See Jewellery at the counter.

Scanning a tag

At the screen, a shopper or staff member can scan a garment's tag (EAN, UPC, Code 128, QR or Data Matrix) with the screen's camera or a USB scanner, or type the code, to bring up that exact piece and its chart. Only the code is sent.