How to add additional photos for an item

Did you see a cool way to wear one of your items – why not add it right under the the photo of you item? This feature allows you add additional images for an item in your wardrobe. These additional images can showcase a special angle or detail the item has, illustrate a cool way to style it or for style inspirations.

To add additional images for an item:

• Tap on the item in your wardrobe to go to item’s details page
• Scroll under the photo
• Tap ‘➕ Add additional images to this item’
• Take a photo or browse to the image you’d like to add

Tap ‘+ Add aditional images to this item

Point to the image you’d like to add

It goes under the original image

Inspiration right where and when you need it

Inspiration image we added is from Lou What Wear. Check Danielle’s blog out for some pretty amazing outfit ideas!

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How to move your wardrobe to a new phone/device

You can transfer your Pureple wardrobe easily to another device.

Please go to ‘Account’ from main menu. Then tap on ‘Pro Version’. This will ask you to upgrade. You will be asked to create a username and password if you haven’t already. You can install Pureple on as many devices as you like and when you login with your credentials, your closet will sync across devices. 

This is one of our ‘Pro-version’ features. It will ask you to subscribe for $1.99/month. If you just want to move to a new device, you can subscribe for one- month only, sync to as many devices as you like (which will transfer your entire closet to these new devices) and then cancel your subscription. When you cancel your subscription, Pureple on all your devices will continue to work, however, future changes will not be synchronized across multiple devices.

Pro upgrade includes:
– Multiple device support. Your closet will sync across all devices you login with your credentials. 
– No Ads.
– Your closet will be backed up on cloud. 
– You will get a ‘Pro’ badge which will display in your profile, community shares and comments.
– VIP support from Pureple Team

Alternatively, you can also transfer your closet for free. Please install the latest update for Pureple from AppStore, if not already. Then, please make sure you take a recent iTunes and iCould backup of your old phone that you have Pureple on. Your wardrobe is backed up with everything else on your your phone in this backup. If you restore your new phone from this backup (which is the typical case most of the time when moving to a new phone), your wardrobe will be transferred to your new phone. You will not need to install Pureple again on this phone. Please make sure everything looks good on your new phone before deleting Pureple on your old phone.

10 apps to help make you a morning person

“It’s easy to get out of bed when you don’t have to plan or think about your wardrobe. By digitizing your closet, all you have to do is swipe and pick out what you want to wear. You’re just like Cher in Clueless. Plus, a wardrobe planner can help you keep track of what you wear (and especially what’s clean) — so you don’t get into a clothing rut.”

Thank you, Mashable, for featuring us!

10 apps to help make you a morning person

Blank Black Screen When Adding Items from Camera?

When you accidentally not allowed Pureple access to Camera or Photo Library, you will see a black blank screen when you try to add an item from Camera; or similarly from Photo Library. You can easily fix this by

1. Quit Pureple
2. Open the ‘Settings’ app on your iPhone/iPad/iPod.
3. Tap ‘Privacy’
4. Tap ‘Photos’. Please make sure Pureple is set to On.
5. Tap ‘Camera’. Please make sure Pureple is set to On.

Adding items from web: How to pick the best quality image

We’d like to share a trick we use to add the best image for an item we are adding from web. Sometimes web search presents us a few different quality versions of the same image. Or the image we want may appear way at the bottom in search results.

When you find the image you’d like to add in search results, please

1. Tap on it to see it enlarged.
2. Then tap on the three vertical dots you see under the image and
3. Tap ‘View original image’ option. This will open the high quality version of the image.
4. Then tap on the ‘+’ to add it to wardrobe.

Pureple also shows the dimensions of the images when you tap on ‘+’ to help you select the best image. We recommend images with dimensions around 512×1024.

5 Ways Pureple will Help Implement PopSugar Fashion’s Tips on Cleaning Your Closet

Our followers may remember PopSugar Fashion’s recent article titled ‘I Cleaned Out 100+ Items From My Closet by Asking This 1 Question’ which we shared on all our social media accounts last week. The article gives great tips on editing your wardrobe. We immediately taught how much Pureple would help to implement the tips in this article. Here is the top 5:

1. Keeping track of how often, if ever, you wear an item.

   You see the dates you wore an item listed under for every item in your closet.

2. Easily seeing how many items you have of a given type/color/season/occasion/brand/size.

3. Asking friends to ask whether to keep an item or let it go by inviting them to your virtual closet. Why not ask them how to style it, too?

4. Tagging items with an expiration date.

5. Purge regularly, from your phone, without the mess.

 

If Pureple was of help while cleaning your closet, how did it help? What would be one feature we could add to make it even more useful?

 

CES 2016-A Fashion Tech Perspective

After an amazing week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, here is our fashion observations.

Fashion Tech

Wearables dominated the scene at CES. We saw both increased span of functionality, more fashionable looks compared to past years and a trend moving from the wrist towards many kinds of accessories and clothing.

Activity tracking and fitness, heath monitoring and biometrics were where functionality focused. We also saw life alert and posture correction in a few.

Sleep and activity tracking bands, smart watches, smart bracelets got prettier looks. Fossil displayed their smartwatches  and analog watches with smart functions; Swarovski their activity tracking jewelry collection, MisFit and WiseWear unveiled their stylish activity tracking bands which are candidates to become our new favorite bangles. Besides fitness and biometric tracking, SMS, voice call, emails, WiseWear smart bracelets ‘Socialite collection’ provides Life Alert functionality and will be available at Neiman Marcus and other retailers in a month.

Functionality is the main focus for fitness tights, smart sneakers, smart socks and smart bra.

The connected shoes by Phoceis and Eram from France caught our eye as one of the few examples where tech served the purpose of fashion first instead of functionality coming first. The color of these smart shoes can be changed from the accompanying app that talks to the shoes over Bluetooth. The pair comes in sneaker and sandal styles. The pair also lights up adjusting to the rhythm of the music.

Nick Verreos hosted 2016 FashionWare fashion show at CES, featuring dresses that are not only smart but also pretty!

Samsung unveiled HumanFit,  smart fashion accessories and clothing which included a clutch that can charge your device with solar panels, activity monitoring belt, NFC enabled bio-smart shirt and golf clothes that can monitor weather conditions and UV exposure.

We demoed new version of Pureple at Pureple booth in Eureka Park. New update code named Pureple Friends introduces Pureple Community Circles which takes crowd sourced outfit suggestions to next level. You will be able to build your circle where you can share your closet with them and give or get outfit suggestions as well as a customized feed of outfit inspirations. You will continue to be able to share your closet with all Pureple community or keep it private. You will also have the option to share all your items, not just the ones added from web. We also unveiled a virtual stylist with smarter outfit suggestions. Stay tuned for the next update!

The trend on connected wearables moving beyond the wrist excites us that in a few years, it will be easier, almost natural to create your virtual wardrobe and manage it automatically. We are also excited about the virtual dressing room to allow you to see clothing on you. A great journey ahead!

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What to Pack for the Trip

If you are heading to CES or a tradeshow in similar lines, here is our experience when it comes to packing.

The four day trade show is the biggest in the tech industry bringing the biggest players and latest products together. While the assumed dress code is business casual, we saw everything between typical tech office attire (ok maybe not sweatpants and flip flops) to suits. It is a good idea to be prepared for a few formal gatherings while still keeping comfortable. The most critical item to pack is, by far, the shoes. It’s a huge show spanning 2 miles of floor space and 3200 exhibitors where visitors and exhibitors spend most of the day on foot and long are those days. It is often that an impromptu plan for the evening comes up.  Considering these, packing comfort shoes with dressy looks is a smart choice. We survived the show with our Cole Haan pumps and Gentle Souls wedges and boots. In case you need an emergency pair during show, there is a Cole Haan store in The Grand Canal Shoppes in Venetian and many others nearby.

The weather is Vegas in January is colder than LA where we are based, and warmer than Seattle. While we needed a warm coat, maybe also a hat or scarf in the evening, we ended up not using our sweaters. We were glad that we packed in layers and enough for all days as there were no time to deal with dry cleaning.

Many visitors preferred taking pictures and recording brief videos when visiting booths. Press presence was also notable as the tech world across the globe had their eyes on Vegas this week. Cameras were everywhere, whether from press or amateurs and we ended up on formal/informal interviews several times. Dressing camera ready is a good idea.

We certainly were impressed with how stylish our visitors were. Blazers for both ladies and gentleman were a favorite we spotted. So were dresses in winter fabrics and naturals, dressy jeans, blouses, linen tees and colorful scarves. Did tech have some style!

Note to STEAM parents:

Rogue Making offers wearable making kits and workshops for birthdays or similar events for the little scientists. We were happy to be able to offer our 7 year old daughter an opportunity to explore both engineering and fashion at the same time.

 

 

2015 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 16,000 times in 2015. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 6 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

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Happy Holidays!

Warmest wishes from Pureple team 💖

New!! From ‘Edit multiple’ to ‘Create outfits for others’

There has been a lot of big changes in past few updates, making Pureple better than ever.

Two major areas your feedback focused on was

• Making it easy to build and organize your wardrobe
• Ability to see friends closets and make outfits for each other

 

Now you can organize your items into categories, occasions, seasons, colors, brands and sizes multiple at a time! You can also delete the items (e.g. sample images) easily all at once.  Just tap and hold to select the items and then tap on green organize button. This will work on existing items or the new items you add via camera, web or from photo library, whether they are categorized before or not. And remember, while it is recommended to fill in most attributes to get most out of all features, it is up to you which attributes you fill in.

Next exciting feature I’d like to talk about is crowd-sourced outfit suggestions on your wardrobe.

Your friends and other Pureplers can visit your virtual closet and make outfits for you from your own closet. This is turned off by default, unless you enable it when you were asked during install or upgrade. If you would like to allow or toggle whether other Pureplers can see your closet and make outfits for you, go to the ‘Account’ from main menu and toggle ‘Community create outfits for me’. Similarly, you can visit others closets, too and make outfits for them. Please remember that only the items you have added from web are visible. Items you’ve added from camera are not visible to protect your privacy.

 

These are just two of many exiting changes happened recently. There is more e.g. notifications which we may cover in a future post.

Stay warm & happy holidays!