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"The primary attraction [of writing sf] is the sheer pleasure of creating something from whole cloth."
- Dan Simmons

Individualized Clothing Manufacture  
  A device that will produce suits of clothing based on measurement data gathered.  

The cropheaded lad handed the tailor a roll of the bluish satin and the two began fixing this in the mechanism in a manner reminiscent of a roll of paper in a nineteenth century printing machine. Then they ran the entire thing on its easy, noiseless bearings across the room to a remote corner where a twisted cable looped rather gracefully from the wall. They made some connexion and the machine became energetic and swift...

"Here are your clothes!" he said. Graham turned round sharply and saw the tailor standing at his elbow smiling, and holding some palpably new garments over his arm. The crop-headed boy, by means of one finger, was impelling the complicated machine towards the lift by which he had arrived. Graham stared at the completed suit. "You don't mean to say -- !"

"Just made," said the tailor.

Technovelgy from When the Sleeper Wakes, by H.G. Wells.
Published by The Graphic in 1899
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See also the customized clothing from Robert Heinlein's 1941 novel Methueselah's Children.

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