How To Increase Revenue From Your Gen Z Customers With Virtual Silhouette Backgrounds
Tangiblee
Kenzie Wilson
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May 31, 2023
Gen Z.
The generation defined by the digital age. And COVID-19, of course.
What is so unique about these Gen Zers?
They are the first generation to be raised completely immersed in technology. They grew up with Television, Internet, iPads, and more.
Their digital reliance has greatly impacted their shopping habits and Gen Zers want the best of both worlds. Their generation is about 50/50 when it comes to in-store vs online shopping; however, they expect an incredible experience on both fronts.
Gen Z expects the same experience online as they get at a brick and mortar store. They want to be able to engage, interact, and try-on products from the comfort of their own home.
Virtual experiences have become increasingly important for online retailers, with online shoppers wanting to “try before they buy”. For jewelry retailers, this is old news as Virtual Try-On is no longer a nice-to-have, but a need.
Expanding on these features, Tangiblee has recently released adjustable backgrounds for virtual silhouettes. This allows online shoppers to swap out the background to visualize the product on virtual models in different environments.
For instance, an online shopper can not only change the height and size of the virtual model, but they can also change the background from a city to a mountain scenes. Online shoppers are able to visualize the usability and look of the product in different environments.
This type of virtual experience is just what Gen Z is looking for. Not only does it provide a high-level of interactivity, but also provides size transparency to reduce returns.
Learn how you can equip your e-commerce website with immersive shopping experiences by scheduling a free demo today.
Once upon a time, a bag was just a bag. Today, it’s a canvas.
Bag charms, carabiners, chains, straps, clips — even phone cases — have transformed bags into personal statements, visual diaries, and evolving identities. What hangs from a bag now says as much about the shopper as the bag itself. And in e-commerce, this shift changes everything. Shoppers no longer want to choose accessories. They want to build them.
They don’t want to imagine. They want to see it — instantly, accurately, beautifully.
This is where the Bag Charm Builder moves from “nice feature” to category-defining experience.
1. Why Bag Charms Aren’t a Trend — They’re a Behavioral Shift
Bag charm culture didn’t explode by accident.
It sits perfectly at the intersection of:
self-expression
modular fashion
collectability
visual storytelling
Each charm adds meaning. Each chain changes the mood. Each carabiner rewrites the function
Across fashion and accessories, shoppers are gravitating toward products that feel personal, flexible, playful, never finished. And the data proves it.
Across Tangiblee clients, we consistently see:
longer PDP engagement
higher multi-item add-to-cart rates
increased AOV
repeat visits as shoppers “build their collection”
Because people don’t just buy charms. They return to evolve their look.
Tangiblee’s Bag Charm Builder transforms any bag into a live styling environment and interactive canvas.
Shoppers can:
place charms on real bag imagery
build charm stacks in real time
see true-to-scale proportions and materials
mix, remove, and compare combinations
save or share their look
add the entire set to cart in one click
The result? A single bag becomes a multi-item purchase journey, a personalization moment, a reason to stay longer, explore deeper, and buy more
2. Carabiners, Chains & Clips: Where Function Meets Fashion
Charm culture doesn’t stop at charms.The next wave of personalization is modular hardware — and brands already leading this space know it.
Take Alf the Label, a premium Australian accessories brand known for functional elegance. Their customers don’t just carry bags — they engineer them using carabiners, clips, straps, and add-ons in gold and rose-gold finishes.
With Tangiblee’s Carabiner Builder, shoppers can:
preview hardware directly on bags
test finishes, sizes, and placements
combine carabiners with charms
build modular, functional setups
see the complete look before purchasing
Small components suddenly become high-value decision points — and powerful upsell drivers.
3. The iPhone Case Builder
We at Tangiblee built this feature based in the client request and now we have another shift - shoppers now treat their phone case as part of their accessory look.
Tangiblee’s iPhone Case Builder allows brands to extend the same charm logic to:
phone cases
straps and chains
clips and carabiners
coordinated bag + phone styling
This turns accessories into a connected ecosystem, not isolated SKUs.
From One Image to Infinite Experiences
Here’s where Tangiblee truly breaks the rules. Everything you’ve seen above can be built using your existing product images. No new photoshoots. No 3D models. No heavy dev work.
A single lifestyle image becomes a Bag Charm Builder, a Carabiner Builder, a phone case styling tool - a multi-product commerce experience
Your imagery stops being static content. It becomes a living shopping surface.
Personalization is no longer optional. If you sell bags, charms, carabiners, chains, straps, phone cases, or any modular accessories, today’s shoppers expect to see exactly how everything comes together before they buy.
Tangiblee delivers that clarity instantly, accurately, and beautifully—turning visualization into confidence and inspiration into action. Because personalization is no longer a bonus feature; it’s the baseline expectation of modern e-commerce, and Tangiblee is how brands meet that expectation and stand out while doing it.
We don’t follow trends — we operationalize them. Charm stacking, modular hardware, accessory ecosystems, and cross-category styling aren’t micro-trends; they’re clear signals of where commerce is going. Tangiblee enables bag-focused brands to scale this future through the Bag Charm Builder, Carabiner Builder, iPhone Case Builder, modular accessory visualization, and full-look interactive shopping experiences—all enterprise-ready, fully measurable, and relentlessly conversion-driven.
For over ten years, Tangiblee has helped shoppers buy with confidence. It all started with a simple but familiar problem: one of our founders bought earrings for his wife, but when they arrived, they were a different size than perceived from the photo.
That moment sparked the idea behind Tangiblee: Shoppers deserve to see the true size, fit, and feel of every product — before they buy it. Ten years later, Tangiblee powers visual commerce for brands selling jewelry, watches, bags, travel accessories, and furniture. Works with such brands as Goldsmiths, CITIZEN, Kipling, JTV, Mikimoto, Coach, PDPAOLA, Movado, David Yurman, Watchbox, Bonaventura, Victorinox, Casio, and more. 622 websites are supported worldwide.
Today, we introduce the next evolution of that vision: The Tangiblee Interactive Shopping Platform - All-in-One Visual Commerce Partner for Jewelry, Watches, and Bags! A fully connected, category-first ecosystem that delivers consistent, intuitive, interactive shopping experiences — online and in-store — across all product categories Tangiblee serves.
This is not a collection of tools. This is an integrated platform built around how shoppers actually explore products.
What does Tangiblee deliver?
In the universe of content, we bring together multiple product experience directions that help jewelry, watch, and bag retailers present and sell their products in the most efficient and cost-effective way. For shoppers, we give something even more important — the power of choice and the respect to view every product from every angle.
With categories like jewelry, watches, bags and luggage, and furniture, we have more than a decade of experience that taught us a simple truth: not everything shiny or “mingling” actually works. What truly works is confidence. And in 2026, this is no longer just a set of cool features — it’s the new currency of customer loyalty.
Take a look at the visual presentation we’ve created for you.
*POM - Premium On Model, * VTO - Virtual Try On
At the core of the Interactive Shopping Universe isTangiblee’s Virtual Try-On engine— a system built to work entirely from a retailer’s existing PDP imagery. Instead of relying on 3D models or new photoshoots, Tangiblee transforms standard product photos into highly realistic, true-to-scale on-body experiences. Shoppers can try on rings, necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and watches instantly on any device. And for categories where realism matters most, such as rings, watches, and bracelets, Tangiblee offers VTO Premium, a richer version with enhanced depth, shadows, and interaction. The result is immediate clarity: shoppers see exactly how an item will look and fit before they add it to their cart.
But shopping with Tangiblee isn’t just about individual products — it’s about style, personal expression, and stories that live across categories.
That’s why Tangiblee built an entire styling engine into the platform. Customers can stack rings, layer necklaces, mix bracelets, or combine earrings in real time, all scaled perfectly to their hand, wrist, neck, or face. Our Build Your Look experience takes it further: shoppers can create complete looks across categories — pairing a watch with a bracelet stack, adding rings, styling earrings — all in one intuitive flow. These experiences not only increase engagement but also make multi-item purchases effortless and natural.
To deepen product understanding, Tangiblee offers advanced visualization tools that go far beyond what a single PDP image can provide.Shoppers can rotate items with 360° views, compare products side-by-side, swap gemstones or metal colors, and instantly understand size through true-to-scale fit visualization. For bags and luggage, Tangiblee shows exactly what fits inside, how much space is available, and how the size compares to real-world objects. For watches, features like wrist rotation and strap selectors give customers a sense of how the piece will move and feel in everyday life. These tools reduce hesitation and dramatically increase confidence at the decision-making stage.
To support brands that want elevated PDP content, Tangiblee offers a premium enhancement layer that brings products to life through on-model experiences, product overlay modules, enriched product videos, and carefully curated AI-assisted visual assets — all reviewed by our human-in-the-loop content team to meet luxury standards. Every piece of content is delivered through a unified pipeline, ensuring speed, consistency, and a polished visual aesthetic.
And because modern shopping journeys don’t end online, Tangiblee extends the same interactive experiences seamlessly into physical retail. A shopper can scan a QR code next to a display tray, try products on instantly on their own phone, and build looks without relying on staff or inventory availability. Store associates can guide customers through styling and product discovery with Build Your Look In-Store. This creates a consistent, continuous experience no matter where the shopper chooses to engage.
All of this works across multiple product categories — jewelry, watches, bags, travel accessories — thanks to Tangiblee’s automated dimension normalization pipeline. This ensures that scale is accurate across categories, brands, and SKUs, creating one unified visual language for the entire product catalog.
And the best part: it’s all powered by a single line of code. Your PDP images go in. A fully interactive universe comes out.
Supported by Tangiblee’s dedicated human-in-the-loop team, every visualization is accurate, on-brand, and optimized for conversion — something AI-only approaches simply cannot guarantee.
In 2026, Tangiblee stands as the all-in-one visual commerce partner for brands that refuse to compromise on clarity, confidence, or customer experience. With one platform powering every interaction, we help retailers sell smarter — and shoppers buy with certainty.
