51 Wears

I've been using an app that lets you catalogue your clothes and record outfits and see stats about the composition of your wardrobe, etc, for a while. 

It's called Whering, one of those perfectly confused business names that is just slightly off a relevant normal English word. Tumbler, Flicker, Wearing. Twitter was, in relation to these names, pretty clever. An actual word, a good and whimsical synonym for talking, and really gorgeous when combined with calling posts "tweets". Nothing will ever be quite the same. The linguistic design is insane. It's too good.

Whering has this conspicious feel of plucky startup about it. They seem heavily invested in testing features. One of those features is the brand new UNWRAPPED. That is, a Spotify Wrapped, the ornately animated slideshow that shows you end-of-year stats about who and what you listened to on Spotify, but for the wardrobe organisation app Whering. Although in this case, it's a quarterly review, which seems both appropriate and fashion-y, and deeply insane.

Let's investigate my personal statistics, shall we?

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The first shocking and tantalising statistic is that I have, apparently, worn 35 items of clothing between January and March. Cool.

Next, we can see my TOP 3 HIGHEST WEARS. At number one are my boots, which I've been wearing the whole time. At number two is a long cardigan, very nice, very comfortable and I wear it a lot in the house. And at number three is my jacket. That's because it's cold sometimes. Very good.

Next, bizarrely, it shows me my TOP 3 LOWEST WEARS, which is really begging for a tie, and yes, we have three perfectly tied items. That's not very satisfying.

My MOST WORN OUTFIT is this combo of grey jogging bottoms, a red t-shirt, and a navy jumper, which is very real. I guess I wore that one a lot. And it was comfy as hell. Outfit construction, though, is a bit on the clunky side, so every time you record an outfit in Whering you have to essentially add a new outfit to your library of outfits, and it's then its own particular outfit that you have to go back to and select on any other day that you wear the same outfit. Except you won't do that, you'll make a new outfit instead, because it's way too much hassle.

This is my most worn outfit only because I went back and added it to later days instead of what I almost always do instead, make a new outfit that's definitely the same as a previous one. It's a structural issue.

These stats and their presentation are a bit awkward, but nevertheless, I do enjoy looking at the info, figuring out how many times I wore my jacket. Don't worry, I say to myself.

It was 41.