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How it works
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How it works
Why are patterns harder to match than plain fabric?
A plain navy jumper is one search term. A floral print is a thousand different prints sharing one name, and no shopping listing describes which one it is.
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Why do two people in a photo confuse a search?
Group photos are the most common upload that comes back wrong. The search reads every garment it can see and has no way of knowing which person you meant.
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Why does the search pick the wrong garment?
You wanted the jacket and it described the shirt underneath. That is a detection problem rather than a matching problem, and the two have completely different fixes.
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How does outfit search differ by platform?
A TikTok frame, an Instagram carousel, a Pinterest pin and a film still are four different inputs. Each has its own failure mode, and knowing which one you are holding changes what you do.
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Why does lighting change what a search finds?
Colour is one of the fields Snagfit records, and light decides what colour a garment appears to be. A navy coat under warm light reads as brown, and the search goes looking for a brown coat.
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How does a filter change what a search finds?
A filter is a colour edit someone chose on purpose, added on top of whatever the room's own light already did. Snagfit reads the finished picture, filter and all.
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Why does an outfit search sometimes return the wrong department?
A person wears an oversized men's shirt and the results show fitted blouses that look nothing like it. The garment got filed under the wrong department.
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Why does sheer and mesh fabric confuse a search?
Sheer and mesh fabric let the camera see through the garment, into whatever is underneath. Snagfit then has to guess where one layer ends and the next one starts.
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Why does the same photo give different results?
You search the same screenshot twice and get different shops, different prices, sometimes a different description. Three things move underneath the search, and none of them are your photo.
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How it works
How do you find clothes from a Pinterest pin?
A pin with a price tag icon already has a buy link built in. A pin without one has usually been saved and resaved so many times the real source is gone, and that is where an outfit-finder tool actually earns its place.
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How do you find an outfit from an iPhone screenshot?
An iPhone screenshot is capped at your screen's resolution, not the video's, and it saves as HEIC by default. Both of those change what Snagfit, or any tool, can actually read.
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What does an AI see in an outfit photo?
Five fields per garment, eleven possible categories, and a search query four to eight words long. Here is the exact shape of what comes back, with a real example.
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Why does reverse image search fail on clothes?
A reverse image search looks for other copies of your picture. That is a different question from what the person in it is wearing, and it is why the results feel so useless.
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Can you find clothes from a screenshot?
Yes, usually. Whether you find the exact piece or something close depends on three things about the screenshot, and you can check all three before you upload it.
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How does outfit search work, from screenshot to buy link?
Snagfit turns a photo into a list of garments, turns each garment into a short text search, and runs that search against shopping listings. Here is every step, in order.
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How it worksRevised
Why does Snagfit show close matches, not the exact item?
An exact match is not always possible, and pretending otherwise would be the dishonest answer. Here is what Snagfit is actually doing when it shows you something similar.