Customize is a verb that refers to personalizing or adapting something according to individual preferences.
Customize is a verb that is not part of the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) but that, however, is used quite frequently in our language . This is an adaptation of the English term customize , which refers to modifying something according to personal preferences .
It can be said, therefore, that customizing an object is the same as personalizing it (adapting it to our taste). The notion of customizing is common in the field of fashion and clothing, although it is also used in marketing .
Example of customizing
Suppose a young designer buys a pink shirt . This garment does not have any drawing or decorative detail, but is a totally pink garment. The designer, however, decides to customize it: she adds a bow, paints some polka dots and cuts out the sleeves.
In this way, your customized shirt will be a unique and exclusive product, impossible to get anywhere else since you modified it with artisanal and personal work.
Common practices linked to clothing
Customizing clothing, in order to convey one's personality and philosophy while moving away from the trends that prevail at all times, is something that more and more people do.
Hence, a multitude of tricks have been made known to be able to customize pants, skirts, dresses or t-shirts. Specifically, among the best known are the following:
• Print shirts or tops with personal identifying marks.
• Make, for example, hair bands using the sleeves of any t-shirt that is no longer worn.
• Sew or attach studs to sweatshirts.
• Print pants or skirts.
• Trim the collars of the t-shirts.
• Add lace details to shirts, bottoms of dresses or skirts.
Customizing a vehicle is a common practice.
Customize the home
In many cases, what is done is to customize old clothes. In this way, you avoid having to invest money in purchasing new clothes, which represents a notable financial saving.
With this last objective, it is also common to carry out what would be the customization of home furniture. Thus, many people resort to subjecting old furniture or basic and economical furniture that they have acquired in a large area to this process.
With this action they manage to renew the decoration of the house and all thanks to processes such as a change in the color of the paint, making inlays and prints on the lamps or on the cabinets...
Website and vehicle customization
Another example of customizing can be found in the case of a web design studio that works based on predesigned templates. This company shows basic templates to its clients, who choose the one they like the most and ask the designers for various modifications. The studio will, therefore, customize the template according to these requirements.
In the case of cars and motorcycles, the action of customizing the vehicle is known as tuning and not as customizing, although both concepts are similar.