A tailor in your pocket
A mobile store for made-to-measure suits: a customer browses a range of tailored styles, sends their measurements either by a few guided photos or by a manual measuring guide, and has a suit built to their fit and shipped - with buy-now-pay-later, a perfect-fit guarantee and the whole fitting-room step replaced by the phone.
Category
- Made-to-measure menswear
- Tailored-suit commerce
Journey
- Browse
- Measure
- Tailor
- Deliver
Design scope
- Product design
- UX + UI
- Full app flow
Fit capture
- AI photo submission
- Manual measuring guide
What is Suitably built to do?
Buying a tailored suit normally means booking a fitting and standing for a tape measure. Suitably moves that onto the phone: the customer picks a style, sends their measurements from home, and a suit is cut to their own numbers and delivered.
A tailoring shop and a fitting room in one app
The store opens onto a curated range of made-to-measure styles. Choosing one leads into a product view with its own gallery, buy-now-pay-later options and the fit guarantees the shop stands behind. The measurement step - the part that usually needs a tailor - is handled two ways, so a customer who trusts a camera and one who trusts a tape both get a suit built to their body.
Why is selling a made-to-measure suit on a phone hard?
A suit is the opposite of an impulse buy: it is expensive, it is bespoke, and it cannot be tried on before it exists. The design problem was to make a customer confident enough to order a garment cut to numbers they captured themselves, on a screen.
| Getting a tailored suit | The traditional way | In Suitably |
|---|---|---|
| Get measured | Book a fitting, stand for a tape | Send photos or follow the measuring guide from home |
| Choose a style | Flick through swatches in store | Browse a curated range with full product views |
| Trust the fit | The tailor's eye | A stated perfect-fit guarantee behind every style |
| Pay for it | In full, up front | Buy-now-pay-later via humm and Afterpay |
| Take delivery | Return trips for alterations | Cut to your measurements and shipped to you |
Browse & discover
Curated storeAn onboarding walkthrough, a home split into shop, measure and contact, and a curated grid of made-to-measure styles that each open into a full product view.
- Walkthrough
- Home
- Range grid
Fit capture
Two pathsThe measurement step offers an AI photo submission for a fast, camera-led fit, and a manual measuring guide for customers who would rather take their own numbers - both feeding the same validation.
- Photo submission
- Measuring guide
- Fit validation
Product & payment
Buy-now-pay-laterA product view with gallery, fit guarantees and instalment payment through humm and Afterpay at the point of choosing.
- Product view
- humm / Afterpay
Trust & fit guarantee
BackedA perfect-fit guarantee, support and clear delivery terms sit on the product view, so ordering a bespoke suit unseen is reassured rather than risked.
- Fit guarantee
- Support
Account & entry
Guest or memberA customer can log in or register, or browse as a guest, with a profile tab holding their account once they are in.
- Login / register
- Guest browsing
How does a phone become a made-to-measure suit?
This is the path the app is built around, and it is the whole pitch: the fitting room is replaced by a measurement the customer captures at home, and everything before and after it is designed to make that feel safe.
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Browse the range
The customer opens the store and moves through a curated set of made-to-measure styles.
Customer - 02
Open a style
A product view shows the suit's gallery, its fit guarantees and buy-now-pay-later options.
Customer - 03
Send measurements
Sizing goes in by a few guided photos through the AI path, or through the manual measuring guide.
Customer - 04
Measurements validated
The submitted numbers are checked through the fit workflow, which flags anything that looks off.
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Tailored to the body
The suit is built to the customer's own measurements rather than a stock size chart.
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Delivered to fit
The finished garment ships to the customer, backed by the perfect-fit guarantee.
Suitably
Scroll the path sideways
What does Suitably feel like in the hand?
Suitably is a phone-first product, so the case for it is the screens themselves - the walkthrough, the store, a product view and the two ways a customer sends their measurements, exactly as drawn.
Enter the shop
The opening screen sets the tone - tailored suits for the dapper gentleman - and lets a customer log in or browse as a guest.
Shop the range
The onboarding walkthrough introduces the store: a range of suits a customer can browse and have made to measure.
Measuring, made simple
The walkthrough explains the fit capture up front, so the measurement step feels like a feature rather than a hurdle.
Three doors in
The home screen opens onto the three things a customer does here - shop, send measurements, or get in touch.
The range
A grid of named made-to-measure styles, each shown on the stand so the cut and cloth read at a glance.
Send by photo
The photo path invites a few guided shots to capture the fit, the fastest way to get measured without a tape.
Or measure by hand
The manual guide walks a customer through taking their own measurements, then runs them through the fit workflow.
What does a made-to-measure commerce app have to get right?
These held well beyond Suitably - they separate an app that sells a bespoke garment sight-unseen from a catalogue people admire and never order.
- Capture the body without a tailor. The measurement is the product, so it needs a path a customer can complete alone and trust - ideally more than one.
- Give more than one way to be measured. A camera path and a manual guide cover the customer who trusts tech and the one who trusts a tape, without forcing either.
- Make the guarantee do the reassuring. With no fitting room, the fit promise, support and delivery terms have to sit where the decision is made, not in a policy page.
- Curate, do not flood. A considered, expensive purchase wants a short, well-presented range, so each style earns a full product view rather than a thumbnail.
- Break the price at the point of choosing. Buy-now-pay-later on the product view lets a customer commit to a tailored suit without the full cost as a wall.
- Let a stranger look before they commit. Guest browsing before any sign-up lets a first-time visitor judge the range before they hand over an account.
Building a made-to-measure commerce app
The questions founders ask us first when they want to sell a bespoke or made-to-measure product on a phone.
Ask us yoursHow long does it take to build a made-to-measure app like Suitably?
A first release at roughly this shape - an onboarding walkthrough, a curated store with product views, two measurement-capture paths, buy-now-pay-later and an account - is a multi-month programme rather than a few weeks. The heaviest part is the fit capture, because turning photos or manual entries into measurements a tailor can cut from brings validation and edge-case handling a normal store never needs. We usually ship browsing and the manual guide first, then layer the photo path and payments.
How much does it cost to build a made-to-measure or bespoke commerce app?
It depends on scope, and no honest figure comes from a feature list alone. The biggest cost drivers are the measurement method, whether an AI photo path is in scope, and how the fit guarantee and returns are handled. Shanti Infosoft scopes it on a short call and returns a fixed quote, so you compare a real number rather than a guess.
How does the remote measurement work?
Suitably offers two paths. A photo submission asks the customer for a few guided shots so their fit can be captured with the camera, and a manual measuring guide walks them through taking their own numbers by hand. Either way the measurements are checked through the fit workflow, which flags anything that looks off before a suit is cut - so a bespoke garment can start without a fitting appointment.
Do you build for both iOS and Android?
Yes. Suitably is designed as a single phone-first product, so browsing the range, capturing measurements, paying and managing an account behave the same across iOS and Android. We design once against a shared component system and build to both platforms rather than treating one as an afterthought.
Can you integrate buy-now-pay-later like humm or Afterpay?
Yes - Suitably places instalment options such as humm and Afterpay directly on the product view, where the decision to buy is made. In a production build we integrate the provider's SDK against the checkout, handle the approval and settlement states, and keep the instalment terms honest and visible so a customer chooses knowingly.
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