Modular Garment Design System for Reconfigurable Clothing

While bodies change over time and trends vary, most store-bought clothing comes in fixed sizes and styles and fails to adapt to these changes.

We propose a modular approach to garment design that considers resizing, restyling, and reuse earlier in the design process.

Our contributions include a compact set of modules and connectors that form the building blocks of modular garments, a method to decompose a garment into modules via integer linear programming, and a digital design tool that supports modular garment design and simulation.

Our user evaluation suggests that our approach to modular design can support the creation of a wide range of garments and can help users transform them across sizes and styles while reusing the same building blocks.