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Free photo libraries hold clothes on rails, not product shots of one garment: plan on images made for the product

Rule

If a product needs several views of one garment under one light (front, back, worn, close-up), free libraries won't have it: plan on images made for the product.

Snippet
before: search free libraries for garments on hangers, one by one, then look for the series behind a good one
after:  about 290 large free photographs seen; 4 were one garment straight on, each from a different shoot,
        none with its back, a worn view or a close-up. The set was made for the product instead.
Check

For each candidate, ask whether its back, a worn view and a close-up under the same light exist from the same source.

Applies to

other: free and CC-licensed photo libraries (November 2026)

I assumed

like shoes on a wall, garments on hangers would be rare but findable one by one, and a good shot would lead to its series (L-46AG).

What happened

of about 290 large free photographs, most showing clothes, nearly all were rails seen edge on, shop interiors, museum pieces on stands, or empty hangers.

Why

one garment straight on, with its back, worn and close-up, is what a shop shoots for its own product pages. Those shoots carry the shop's brand and are not given away; photographers give away the atmosphere of a rail.

The fix

the pictures were generated for the product, to a shot list: one hanger, one light, one camera height, a plain backdrop.

Evidence

commit cbcb548; the sourcing count and its contact sheet.

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