How to take your photo for the try-on
Only one thing really matters, and that is the pose. The rest — light, background, the clothes you are wearing — the fitting room handles on its own.
Recommended guide
Standing straight, facing the camera, with your arms at your sides and your hands in view.
It is advice, not a requirement: the fitting room works with a different photo too. But in this pose the body reads without ambiguity, and the measurements the system estimates from the photo are more reliable.
Do
- Stand straight, with your weight on both feet.
- Face the camera, shoulders parallel to the lens.
- Arms at your sides, far enough from your hips to see your outline.
- Hands in view, open and relaxed.
- Your whole body in frame, from head to feet.
Avoid
- Hands in pockets — that is the one that costs the most.
- The body turned three-quarters or in profile.
- Arms crossed, on your hips or behind your back.
- Bags, backpacks or open coats covering your waist.
- Photos sitting down, from behind, or cut off at the knees.
Why the pose changes the result
The fitting room generates a new image from your photo: it has to work out where your body ends and where what you are wearing begins. A front-on pose with your hands in view makes that boundary readable. A turned pose, or one with a hand hidden in a pocket, makes it ambiguous — and the garment can fall on you the wrong way, for instance a dress that stays on top of the trousers instead of replacing them.
On the same person, the pose also changes the measurements the system estimates from the photo: in our tests the waist circumference shifted by several centimetres between two photos taken a minute apart — enough to change the recommended size. The front-on pose is the one the fitting room renders well on, and the one where the body reads without ambiguity.
If you would rather not use a photo of yourself
In the fitting room you can pick one of the preset models and see the garment on a build similar to yours. There is nothing to upload, and no photo of yours leaves your device. How we handle photos is written in the privacy policy.