SEATTLE — For many people, buying clothing online is not worth the hassle of getting a pair of pants or a shirt that does not fit. Many retailers have sought to eliminate that risk by offering free returns on clothing, but now Amazon is going even further. 
 
 On Tuesday morning, the company revealed a new program called Prime Wardrobe that allows people to order clothing — from three to 15 items at a time — without actually buying it. Amazon will charge them only for the items they keep. Customers can return the items they don’t want in a resealable box with the preprinted shipping label that the order came in. 
 
 The service will be an option only for members of Amazon Prime, the company’s membership service, which, for $99 a year, gives customers fast shipping at no extra charge, a streaming video service and other benefits. The company did not say when Prime Wardrobe would be available. 
 
 It is hard to predict what impact this will have on the company’s clothing sales, but it follows a pattern at Amazon of eliminating so-called friction points to online shopping that have made it surprisingly successful in the apparel category. ||||| Amazon is launching Prime Wardrobe, a new program that will let you try on clothes before you buy them. Once you select at least three Prime Wardrobe-eligible pieces from over a million clothing options, Amazon will ship your selections to you in a resealable return box with a prepaid shipping label. 
 
 After you try on the clothes, you can put the ones you don’t want back in the box and leave it at your front door — Prime Wardrobe also comes with free scheduled pickups from UPS. If you decide to keep at least three items you will get a 10 percent discount off your purchase, and if you keep five or more pieces the discount rises to 20 percent. 
 
 This is Amazon Fashion’s latest attempt to grow its retail footprint — Amazon launched the Echo Look “style assistant” back in May, and it began working with celebrities like Dwyane Wade to build out mini stores on its website. Given Amazon’s history of entering and methodically dominating retail markets (see: books, electronics, and probably groceries), this likely isn’t the last move we’ll see from Amazon Fashion this year. 
 
 Amazon Prime Wardrobe is currently in beta, but you can sign up to get notified when it officially launches. ||||| CLOSE Amazon has unveiled Prime Wardrobe, a subscription service that lets users try out clothing and accessories. Prime members can use the new service for free. Time 
 
 Amazon announced a beta test of a "try before you buy" clothing distribution program called Prime Wardrobe on June 20, 2017. (Photo: Amazon) 
 
 SAN FRANCISCO —Amazon wants to make clothing purchases easier with a new program it plans to launch called Prime Wardrobe, a service that allows customers to order clothes, keep them for a week and return whatever they don’t like for free. 
 
 Prime Wardrobe shares some similarities with other “try before you buy” programs such as Stitch Fix and Nordstrom’s Trunk Club, though these choose clothing options for customers. In Amazon's case, the customer makes all the choices. 
 
 Any Prime member in the United States can choose between three and 15 items of clothing, shoes or accessories, which will be shipped to them for free. 
 
 They then have up to seven days to try the clothing on. Anything they don’t want, for whatever reason, can be shipped back in the same reusable box, which comes with a prepaid label. Amazon picks up the shipping cost. 
 
 There is no upfront charge; payment only comes after the seven days. Customers get a 10% discount if they keep three or four items, 20% off for five or more items. 
 
 The consumer is already using the bedroom as the new fitting room so that’s not so much what’s new, said Amit Sharma, CEO of Narvar, a company that offers delivery and return support to online retailers. 
 
 “This is more of an effort to drive consideration for Amazon as a legitimate outlet to buy clothing, and to gain visibility for their apparel offerings from well-regarded brands like Calvin Klein, Adidas, Theory and Hugo Boss,” he said. 
 
 The play will probably be profitable because apparel has some of the highest margins in retail, which will help offset the return shipping costs, he said. 
 
 Items for Prime Wardrobe include children’s, women’s and men’s clothing. 
 
 The service is similar to online shoe store Zappos, which became a success story by making buying shoes online painless with free returns and exchanges, a process that had previously been fraught with hassles. Amazon bought Zappos in 2009. 
 
 The Prime Wardrobe service is currently in beta mode, but customers are encouraged to sign up for an email notification when it launches to the general public. 
 
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– Amazon will soon let customers order clothes and have them delivered to their homes—without paying for them first. The New York Times reports Prime Wardrobe represents the latest in Amazon's ongoing process of eliminating every barrier to shopping online. It works like this: Amazon Prime customers can order three to 15 items of clothing at a time without actually buying them and will be charged only for the items they keep. Customers have seven days to return the unwanted items in a resealable box with a pre-printed shipping label before they're charged, according to USA Today. And the Verge notes customers won't even have to go to the post office to return the unwanted clothing, because the service includes free scheduled UPS pickups. To sweeten the deal, Amazon will give customers 10% off if they keep at least three items. If they keep at least five items, the discount is 20%. Other online clothing retailers have long offered free returns to customers, but few only charge customers for the items they keep and those that do—such as Stitch Fix—choose the clothing they send to customers. It's unclear when Prime Wardrobe will be available, but Amazon has already taken over the books and electronics markets—and is working on the grocery market—and analysts expect it to be the biggest apparel retailer in the US by the end of the year.