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This holiday season, your tailor is being replaced by a robot. Alton Lane is a custom suit retailer in New York's Flatiron Building. In the shop, they've a black booth to step into - not unlike the security booth at the airport - only this one requires you be in just your underwear. Once inside, lights and lasers and 'the future' will then scan your entire body and record your exact measurements. Then, after selecting style and fabric for your custom duds, someone, somewhere on the other side of the world will fashion a suit made specifically for your body.

Three weeks and less than $500 later, your suit will arrive to your home. And shortly afterward, you'll no doubt be planning your next visit to Alton Lane.

AltonLane.com

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Every year at this time, 'Top 10' lists get released: ones that tell us how to dress next year, what cities to travel to, and what music festivals or law schools we should consider attending. Following are a few that caught our eye.

Pantone introduces their 2010 Fashion Color Report, answering the question that people ask us all the time: "What colour will be big next year?" According to Pantone, it'll be from an array of colours that are definitely pretty, but not wimpy; soft pastels that are kept grown-up and sophisticated by their slightly grey cast. Somehow both nostalgic and forward-thinking, they merely hint at another, very adult time.

Here's a summary.

And a downloadable PDF is here.

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In our ongoing quest to find things to custom order on-line, our friends at Hipstery.com might be at the helm of the next wave of custom ordering, which is this. You don't actually design it / choose it / determine it yourself, you merely supply information to the seller, and based on what they discover about you, they select it for you. Hipstery.com will ask you a number of questions including "What's your preferred method of air travel?" and "At the movies, which armrest belongs to you?". Depending on your answers, a t-shirt is chosen to suit you and sent along. The burden of choice can be daunting.

Here it is

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Summer's upon us, and that means it's time for more fluff in our lives. So here we go.

Who doesn't need more t-shirts? Our new friends - we don't actually know them, it just sounds nice - at RIPT Apparel think the entire world needs more t-shirts. They're so convinced in fact that everyday, they display a different t for sale - only one - and each day the price is $10. Did I mention that each shirt is an original design by a graphic artist? There's even a countdown clock on the left side of the page, displaying how much longer that day's t will be for sale before it's retired into the rafters. (Move over, Wayne Gretzky's 99.)

What better time to stock up, before you start slopping your ice cream and Slush Puppies on the t's you currently own?

Click here and order a sweet t.

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