Customer success stories in uniform sizing and size optimisation
Bodi.Me helps uniform suppliers, garment manufacturers, retail brands and employers replace size guesswork with garment-specific recommendations and real wearer-demand intelligence.
Since 2013, the Size-Me platform has delivered more than 1.5 million size recommendations across uniform, workwear and apparel programmes. These customer stories show how Bodi.Me improves first-time fit, reduces size-related returns and supports better production, stock-allocation and distribution decisions.
Awards and recognition
Right size. Right quantity. Right location. First time.
Healthcare uniform sizing across a diverse workforce
Size-Me supported healthcare uniform sizing across a diverse workforce and multiple locations, with testing reporting 96%+ size-recommendation accuracy and voluntary adoption exceeding 95%.
Challenge
Healthcare uniform programmes must fit wide variations in body shape, role and mobility across hospitals, trusts and distributed teams, where incorrect sizing affects comfort and confidence.
Solution
Size-Me was calibrated to the programme’s actual garments, measurements and grading, with a remote wearer journey and optional 3D avatar visualisation — no photographs or body scans required.
Measured Outcome
- 96%+ accuracy during testing
- 95%+ voluntary adoption
- Reduced need for manual measuring appointments
South African Military Research Department: 3D body-data research and size optimisation
The research department acquired a 3D body scanner to capture detailed digital body models and more than 250 body measurements per wearer, supporting military sizing research, inclusive size-curve development, garment design and pattern grading.
Challenge
The department required a faster and more consistent method of collecting anthropometric data across a diverse military population — manual measurements are time-consuming, difficult to standardise and provide limited insight into body-shape variation, garment grading and future size requirements.
Solution
A 3D body scanner captures full-body data and 250+ consistent measurements per wearer. The scanner can also be integrated with Size-Me, connecting body data with actual garment measurements to provide individual size recommendations and aggregated demand intelligence by garment, size and location.
Measured Outcome
M&S and Incorporatewear: gender-neutral uniform sizing for 15,000 employees
M&S and Incorporatewear used Size-Me to support the introduction of a gender-neutral uniform collection for about 15,000 employees, delivering garment-specific size recommendations and an estimated 90% reduction in fit-related returns.
Challenge
A large, diverse workforce needed to move away from conventional gender-based sizing, without costly manual fittings or unreliable generic size charts.
Solution
Bodi.Me developed Size-Me 3.0 around the programme’s actual garments, size charts, grading and fit requirements, matching each employee’s predicted body profile to the most appropriate size.
Measured Outcome
- About 15,000 employees supported
- High voluntary adoption
- 90%+ reduction in fit-related returns
Italian uniform supplier: Size-Me implementation for mechanics’ workwear
The Italian uniform supplier needed to improve sizing for mechanics across their client’s global workshops network, wearing multiple workwear garments with different fits, grading and functional requirements.
Challenge
Manually sizing mechanics across a global workshop network would have been slow, costly and operationally complex. Generic size charts also produced inconsistent recommendations, avoidable exchanges and limited visibility of the sizes and quantities required for production, stock allocation and distribution.
Solution
Size-Me was calibrated against the supplier’s mechanics’ workwear collection, using the actual garment measurements, size charts, grading and fit specifications. The digital sizing journey is easy to use and provides each wearer with a garment-specific recommendation, integrated into the supplier’s existing ordering process, with aggregated wearer data providing size-demand intelligence by garment, size and location.
Measured Outcome
- Garment-specific recommendations implemented across the mechanics’ workwear range
- Consistent digital sizing journey for employees and ordering teams
- Reduced reliance on manual measurements and generic size charts
- First-time fit, adoption and exchange rates tracked against the previous sizing process
Sofitel: multilingual uniform sizing across a global hotel network
Bodi.Me and DressBest integrated Size-Me into the Sofitel uniform programme to provide garment-specific recommendations through a multilingual digital journey across a global hotel network.
Challenge
International hospitality programmes must fit employees across different countries, languages and roles, while keeping garments, ordering and stock consistent across locations.
Solution
Size-Me was calibrated against the Sofitel collection and integrated into the DressBest ordering environment, with multilingual functionality supporting a consistent sizing process across countries.
Measured Outcome
- One consistent sizing journey across multiple locations
- Multilingual employee access
- Centralised size-demand visibility for stock and distribution planning
Commonwealth Games: uniform size optimisation for 14,000+ volunteers
Size-Me supported the uniform programme for more than 14,000 Commonwealth Games volunteers, generating over 85,000 garment recommendations and reducing excess uniform stock by more than 97% compared with the previous programme.
Challenge
Major events must order uniforms before the final wearer population and size distribution are known, risking excess stock, shortages and last-minute exchanges.
Solution
Volunteers completed a remote Size-Me journey; aggregated, anonymised demand data gave the programme clear visibility of required sizes before final production and distribution decisions.
Measured Outcome
- More than 14,000 volunteers supported
- Over 85,000 garment recommendations
- 97%+ reduction in excess uniform stock vs. the previous programme
Garment-specific size recommendations for digital ordering
Size-Me provides recommendations based on the measurements, grading and fit characteristics of the specific garment being ordered — not generic size charts or broad demographic assumptions. Across Bodi.Me deployments, the platform reports more than 1.5 million recommendations, 93%+ size and fit accuracy, approximately 4% average size returns, and return reductions above 90% in selected programmes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Bodi.Me has delivered more than 1.5 million size recommendations. Selected programmes have reported 93%+ size and fit accuracy, average size returns of approximately 4% and reductions above 90% in size-related returns.
Measures can include recommendation accuracy, first-time fit, wearer adoption, return and exchange rates, excess stock, unavailable sizes, redistribution costs and demand by size and location.
Yes. Results depend on the garments, wearer population, existing sizing process, quality of garment data, ordering journey and programme objectives. Each case study reports the method and results of the individual deployment.
Yes. Size-Me recommends the most suitable garment size for each wearer while aggregated, anonymised demand data supports production planning, stock allocation and distribution.
