The 1973 Woody Allen movie, Sleeper, predicted that someday we'd have high-tech tailors fitting our clothing. Well, the concept is here, but it looks a little different and is a lot more accurate.

The 88-year-old Saint Laurie Merchant Tailors in Midtown has installed the Vitus 3-D scanner, which creates a perfect 3-D image of the person it's scanning.

"Over about seven seconds, it scans your body," says Jacob Kozinn. "Thirty seconds later I have a picture in gray-scale of your body on the screen that I can rotate and take cross-sections of and take measurements anywhere I want on your body, and it's all very accurate."

"Normally if you left after ordering a suit, we have twelve measurements to interpret your body. Now when you leave we have your body, so we know every base is covered."

To scan your body, you stand between four towers and lasers scan your body and pinpoint specific spots on your body. Next to the lasers there are little tiny cameras that take pictures along the way. The image is then passed along to a computer, where exact measurements from any number of points can be calculated.

But in a traditional store, where most of the work is still done by hand, is technology welcome?

Master tailor Ninao Cesareo says it doesn't upset him that a machine is doing part of what he was doing before because "the machine can do it much better. "

"By hand it takes more time, but the machine is much better" agrees fellow Master Tailor Ciro Teofilo.

So, the upside of having a system like this is your suits and clothing can be made to fit perfectly. The downside is you have no one to blame but yourself if for some reason the clothes don't fit.

"If they want to come back and say I've been eating a lot this week, Thanksgiving was crazy and I haven't been working out at all, let's check my gut, then hey, we'll check it out," says Kozinn. "We'll scan you again and see, and we can say in hard terms, oops, two more inches."

- Adam Balkin