the.com/wearer
The person who finds out if your design idea was actually a good idea.
means Someone who has a piece of clothing or equipment on their body, putting a design's comfort and function to the real-world test.
from Simple and sturdy: from Old English 'werian', meaning to wear or carry on the body, with roots stretching back to a very old Germanic verb for carrying or defending oneself with something. Add the agent suffix '-er' — the same ending that turns bake into baker — and you get 'wearer': not the designer, not the seller, but the one actually walking around in the thing.
- legal sense
- Used in patents to mean the human the invention touches.
- fashion vs function
- Designers worship the look, wearers worship the pockets.
- etymology
- From wear, Old English werian, to carry on the body.
- silent critic
- Never reviews the product, just quietly stops buying it.