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Getting dressed, written down.

Guides on building a digital closet, choosing an app, planning a week, packing a bag, and dressing for the weather. Megu is our app and we say so; everything here is meant to be useful whether or not you use it.

Digital closets

• What Is a Digital Closet? A Plain Explanation
  A digital closet is a photographed, tagged, searchable copy of the clothes you own. What it is, what it is not, and what it is actually for.
• How to Digitise Your Closet in One Evening
  A step-by-step method for photographing 30 to 40 pieces into a closet app in a single sitting, and why the order you do it in decides whether you finish.
• How to Photograph Clothes for a Closet App
  What the photo needs to contain, what it does not, and why the answer depends on whether your app keeps the picture as taken or re-renders it.
• Digital Closet vs Spreadsheet vs Photo Album
  Three ways to keep track of what you own, compared on the only measure that matters: whether you are still using it in a month.
• Why Most Closet Apps Get Abandoned on Day Twelve
  The three places a digital closet dies: the first evening, the first ugly cut-out, and the first morning with nothing waiting. How to get past each.
• What Do You Actually Wear? Wear Tracking, Explained
  How a closet app learns which pieces earn their hanger, why the answer is usually a surprise, and what to do with it before you buy anything else.
• Declutter Your Wardrobe Using a Digital Closet
  A decluttering method that uses your own wear data instead of a rule of thumb, so the decision about each piece is made with evidence.
• Building a Capsule Wardrobe With a Closet App
  How to use a digital closet to find the capsule already hiding in your wardrobe, test it for a month, and stop buying pieces that do not fit it.
• A Wardrobe Inventory for Insurance, Without a Spreadsheet
  Contents insurers ask for evidence of what you owned. A digital closet is the version of that list you will actually have when you need it.

Getting dressed

• What to Wear Today? How a Weather-Aware Outfit App Decides
  What actually happens between the forecast and the look on your screen: the hours that matter, the pieces that qualify, and why you should be able to say no.
• Dressing for the Weather: Why the Forecast Isn't the Answer
  The daily high and low are the wrong numbers. How to read a forecast for getting dressed, and how a closet app should be doing it for you.
• How to Plan a Week of Outfits in One Sitting
  A Sunday-evening method for laying out seven looks that do not repeat, survive a change in the weather, and leave room for the day that goes sideways.
• How to Pack a Suitcase With a Digital Closet
  Packing is a week plan with a size limit. How to use a closet app to pack fewer pieces that make more outfits, for the weather you are going to.
• What an AI Stylist App Actually Does
  The phrase covers everything from a rules engine to a chat window. What to expect from one, what it needs from you, and the difference between styling your closet and styling a shop.
• Virtual Try-On: What It Is, What It Can't Do
  How virtual try-on in a closet app works, what it is good for, where it is honestly still a sketch, and why the image is labelled.

Choosing an app

• Free Digital Closet Apps: What 'Free' Actually Gets You
  Which closet apps are free to download, what each one meters or caps, and how to try the whole idea before paying anything.
• Megu vs Whering: Private Closet or Social Closet?
  Whering is the largest free social closet app. Megu is a private one that gets you dressed. An honest comparison of what each is for.
• Megu vs Stylebook: Automatic or By Hand?
  Stylebook has been the manual wardrobe app since 2010. Megu does the work for you. Which one you want depends on whether the work is the point.
• Megu vs Indyx: Analytics Closet or Morning Closet?
  Indyx is the wardrobe app for people who want the numbers. Megu is the one for people who want to be dressed. An honest comparison.
• Megu vs Alta Daily: Two AI Stylists, Two Ideas
  Alta is the AI closet app with the press coverage and the biggest ratings count. Megu is the quiet one. What each does with your closet, compared.

Compared

• The best digital closet apps for iPhone, compared
  Seven apps side by side: price, photo cleanup, AI outfits, weather, social layer and platform.