Booty-cam targets shoppers' bottom line

A California retailer is using a closed-circuit camera so clothes buyers can easily check out their rear view in fitting rooms.

Los Angeles Times
June 28, 2011 at 2:04PM
Dressing room camera. (Randy Salas/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Bum's the word when it comes to denim. If you're going to push your tush into a new pair of jeans, might as well know how they look, right?

But checking out your own rear can be a neck-craning, imprecise affair. That's where having a camera in a dressing room might be a good thing.

Retailer American Rag Cie has installed such all-seeing eyes at booty level in fitting stalls of two of its California stores.

The camera sends a streaming view of a customer's derriere on a closed-circuit loop to a screen embedded in the dressing room's mirror.

The company plans eventually to expand the concept to its Industrie Denim stores.

Founder Mark Werts developed and patented the camera system and plans to sell the technology to other retailers around the country.

Now you can know for sure there's nothing between you and those Calvins.

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