Lahore Tailors Are Training Their Own AI Stylists
By Syed John
Boutique shops feed decades of measurement notes into local models to upsell diaspora clients.
Walk into an old-school tailor in Lahore and you'll see dusty ledgers. But peek behind the curtain and you might find a Raspberry Pi crunching those measurements into an AI stylist. Tailors now offer diaspora clients virtual fittings through WhatsApp, complete with fabric drape simulations.
They're not using Silicon Valley APIs—they train LLaMA derivatives on Urdu instructions and family body types. The AI isn't perfect, but it's personal. Diaspora aunties cry on video calls when a shalwar kameez fits exactly like the one their grandmother sewed.
This is what global AI democratization looks like: artisan businesses refusing to be left behind. While big brands chase runway avatars, neighborhood tailors quietly turned their ledgers into neural nostalgia machines.