Choose a small group of clothes you wear often and make a record of what they need. Keep care instructions, repairs and actual use together. It gives you a more useful starting point than buying another product or guessing how often something gets worn.
Choose three regularly worn items. Copy their fibre information and care-label instructions into a note, including any restrictions. If a label is missing or unclear, check with the maker rather than applying another garment's instructions.
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Name the practical obstacle
For each piece, write down what stops you wearing it: a missing button, a fit issue, a repair or difficulty finding it in storage. Separate a job you can confidently do from one that needs a quote or specialist advice.
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Count actual use
Start a simple wear tally from today. Keep that count separate from any estimate of earlier use or future plans. Use a consistent definition of one wear so your own records remain comparable; a projection is not a promise about an item's life.
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Compare with context
Use cost per wear alongside fit, comfort and your budget. Enter purchase cost and any paid alterations or repairs you choose to include. A low projected number is not a reason to buy something; check whether the wear count is realistic for your own routine.
Make it yours
A three-piece wardrobe record
Copy these prompts into your own notes, or use them on paper.
A three-piece wardrobe record
For each item
Write this down
Care
Garment identification · label instructions · maker information if needed
Next action
Specific repair or fit issue · who will do it · quote if needed
Use
Tally start date · actual counted wears · separate projected scenario
Included cost
Purchase cost · paid alterations · paid repairs · what you left out
Follow each garment's care label. This worksheet does not prescribe a wash cycle or claim that a fabric treatment is safe. Cost per wear does not measure garment quality or environmental impact.
Divide purchase cost plus included paid repairs and alterations by wears. Compare an actual record with a separate future scenario using the free calculator.
Body charts describe you; product charts describe the garment. Check which chart you have, match units and measuring points, then compare like with like.
Record the care information already attached to selected garments, keep unknown labels visible and plan outfits without inventing treatment instructions.
