Wardrobe
Resale value is changing what gets made and how it is built
A large second-hand market gives garments a life beyond the first owner, and that prospect quietly alters…
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Wardrobe
Building a set of clothes that works together instead of accumulating one.
Wardrobe
Children’s clothes are sized against a moving target
A growing body invalidates every measurement within months, and nearly every peculiarity of children’s…
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Wardrobe
Buying clothes remotely is measurement work, not guesswork
Without a fitting room the only reliable information is numbers, and a short set of measurements taken from…
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Wardrobe
Climate decides a wardrobe long before taste gets a say
Humid heat, dry heat, wet cold and dry cold each impose different physical requirements, and a set of…
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Wardrobe
What a garment costs to make is not most of what it costs to buy
The price on the label is assembled from a chain of decisions in which materials and sewing are only the…
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Wardrobe
A garment in a photograph has been fitted to the camera, not to the model
Product images are produced under controlled conditions with the garment manipulated out of sight, which is…
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Wardrobe
Renting clothes changes the economics of the garments you rarely wear
Access rather than ownership makes obvious sense for a small category of clothing and very little sense for…
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Wardrobe
Clothes for physical work are specified like equipment, and desk clothes are not
A garment worn while doing something demanding has measurable requirements, and the wardrobes people…
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