A user who desires, for example, to order a dress shirt, is instructed to
select a preferred fitting dress shirt, to lay the shirt flat and to take
a set of measurements from the flat laying shirt according to key
measurements, The set of measurements taken is then input and associated
with the type of garment. In this way a shirt may be ordered having
measurements which accord with the input set of measurements or which
diverge from the set in a way which may be shown to the user in advance
of ordering.