This week’s editionA weekly paper on machine learning and what we wear

The weekly paper of clothing, fit and machine learning

Fabric

Drape, weight, weave and colour, and why cloth resists tidy description.

Two curves showing how a stiff cloth and a soft cloth fall differently over the same edge.
Fabric

Teaching a model about drape and weight

Two garments cut from the same pattern can hang completely differently. The difference is in the cloth, and the cloth is what photographs record worst.

A camera, a single light source and two colour swatches showing a recorded colour differing from the actual one.
Fabric

Colour under a camera, and why it lies

The colour of a garment in a photograph is a joint statement about the cloth, the light and the sensor. Only one of those three is for sale.