Don't know what to wear? StyleIt can help

Alicia Silverstone’s character in the 1995 chick flick Clueless had the right idea: Let a computer program pick out your outfits so you never have to stress about what to wear again.

Now there’s an app for that, thanks to software engineer and Carnegie Mellon University graduate Henry Kang.

His California-based company Peekabuy is behind StyleIt, an iOS-compatible app that suggests outfits for women based on pieces already in their closet. The China native, now in his early 30s, came up with the concept a few years ago while he was studying at CMU and his wife, Shawna Shu was studying at Duquesne University.

“Every morning she would repeat the same question,” he says. “’What can I wear today?’”

That made him decide to apply his research to coming up with a 21st-century version of the Clueless wardrobe builder.

Here’s how it works: download the app and take a photo of a piece of clothing you own. Within three seconds the app will pull available items from more than 450 retailers such as Macy’s, Nordstrom and American Eagle to create 10 different outfits to go with the photographed piece. If a user likes the suggestions, she can purchase them through the app, and Kang’s business earns a commission for the sale. If it’s not to her taste, she can swap the selections for new ones.