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What Do You Actually Wear? Wear Tracking, Explained
Most people wear a small fraction of what they own and could not tell you which fraction. Wear tracking is the cheap way to find out.
What wear tracking is
When you wear a look, you tell the app. In Megu that is a swipe on the morning's suggestion, or a tap on "Wear today" on a saved look. The app logs the pieces. After a few weeks it can show you the wardrobe sorted by how often each piece has actually left the house.
That is all it is. The value is entirely in the pattern that appears.
The pattern that always appears
A small group of pieces, usually under a quarter of the closet, does most of the work. A larger group is worn occasionally. And a third group, often the most expensive one, has not been worn since it was logged. Almost everyone is surprised by the third group, and almost everyone already half knew.
What to do with it
- Before buying anything, look at the top group. Whatever you reach for every week is your actual style, whatever you think your style is. Buy things that go with those.
- Give the middle group a job. A piece worn twice a month is usually waiting for the right pairing. Ask the app: "something with the green trousers." A stylist that knows your closet will find it.
- Be honest about the bottom group. Some of it is seasonal and fine. The rest is a decision you have been avoiding. Decluttering with the numbers in front of you is much easier than decluttering by feel.
Cost per wear, and why the count comes first
Some apps divide what you paid by how often you have worn it. It is a good idea and a slippery number: it makes the cheap thing you wear daily look like genius and the coat you bought for winter look like a mistake in July. Megu keeps the count for every piece and only works out the cost per wear if you add what you paid; the count is the honest part.
Keeping it honest
Wear tracking only works if logging is effortless. If it is a form, you will stop. The reason it is a swipe in Megu is that a swipe is the thing you were going to do anyway to pick the look. The log is a side effect of getting dressed, which is the only kind of log anyone keeps.
Open your closet.
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Keep reading
- 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.
- 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.