You're really pushing the boat out there faster recruitment!
I think for a lot of people the issue of being able to see what an item of clothing really looks like is still an issue. It's come a long way but wouldn't it be cool to have some pre-recorded (or live, let's get whacky) video that you could control and interact with in some way, of a model wearing the clothing, and perhaps you could choose some options, like "jump" or "turn around" that would demonstrate the clothing in a more interesting way.
Maybe there could be a live fashion room with real models walking around, talking.. or what they like to call "working", with various different camera view options, and the ability to interact with the models by suggesting scenes (not those kind of scenes....) and every so often they all change into different clothes. There could also be options to vote on the next clothing theme/style.
I haven't put a lot of thought into it, just thinking out loud really.
From a development point of view, I'm with Levi, the worst part of building a new e-commerce site is creating the product database.... I'd love for there to be a simpler way of doing things! Maybe there is and I just don't know about it... I know you can create databases from CSV lists, that can be produced with spreadsheet software, Expanding on Levi's idea, it would be great if you could populate the spreadsheet easily with a set of pre-defined values that simply +1 for each row, which would help
So if you were to create the first row with the following columns:
Product Name | Description | Price | ID/SKU | Image(s) |
You could set the default, for example image, to something like "/images/products/product-1.jpg" or more if you wanted to have each product use a set number of image each, and then after hitting the magical button, it would populate the list of possibly thousands of products, just adding +1 to the product file name, (to product-2, product-3 etc ID/SKU and Product Name. or possibly assign x number of images per product..
So it would take the first products ID/SKU and assign it the following images: "images/products/1-image-1.jpg, images/products/1-image-2.jpg, images/products/1-image-3.jpg" and then for the next row it would add "images/products/2-image-1, images/products/2-image-2.jpg etc" and then it's just a case of using the right naming convention when creating the images and putting them into the right directory! Maybe this has already been done, I don't know...
I still think the biggest issue with clothing is the variation in sizing and things not being the size they claim to be, and until that is resolved then certain people are not going to bother with online shopping because it's a hassle to have to keep returning things when they don't fit. I don't think there's a way to solve that issue with technology.