This is an average amount of clothing.

I wear thick cords in winter rather than jeans. Often with tights on underneath. I think some people just don’t feel the cold as much, it must be nice.

This thread has just inspired me to list a load of clothes on vinted! Including a beloved dress I wanted to have altered to fit me but I don’t want it to get ruined 😭 - realised I’d been holding on to it for no good reason and I genuinely hate having stuff that serves me no purpose anymore.

Definitely more expensive clothes have worked out better value for me in the long run. Some “cheap” stuff isn’t even that cheap either if you know what I mean! But I’ve made a massive effort to identify what I actually wear vs what I imagine I could wear, so I’ve done a lot better for buying what actually suits me, fits into my lifestyle etc. If I saw a ball gown for £100 and it looked absolutely amazing on me and it should have been £2k, I would put it back now because where am I going to wear a ball gown? It’s not good value if you’re spending on stuff you won’t actually wear that just fills the closets up (repeat this to myself as often as necessary!)

Oh good grief. I spend as much time outdoors as I expect most people living in a city do. I walk everywhere, 25 minute walk to work every day. I'm out a lot in the evening and weekends and walk.

I have loads of coats and jackets of various lengths, weight and materials, scarves, gloves, berets.

Do you not understand it's possible to make dresses and skirts out of a huge range of material?

I honestly don't understand how bare legs under jeans is warm in the winter.

I have way less than half that and it still feels too much!

Some people just can't see past jeans. I don't understand how it can be comfortable wearing the same clothes all year round.

I hate jeans. I found them cold in the winter and stifling in the summer.

Why on earth do you think I would have bare legs in the winter?

You do know that dresses and skirts can be made of corduroy and velvet- heavy and lightweight, cotton- heavy and lightweight e. g cotton gaberdine which is heavy, poplin mid weight and tana lawn which is lightweight , wool - knitted, gaberdine, flannel, chalis, linen which can be heavy and lightweight, lined and unlined?

Yep it’s an app - Whering - it appeals to the nerdy geek side of me.

Its interesting to track what I really wear. I started using it about 15mths ago and uploaded pics of most of what I wear often (you can take photos yourself but I was able to find pictures of most of my recent stuff online). Anything I buy new goes straight on the app.

it tells me how often I wear something and price per wear which i love. Interesting to see that a lot of my expensive stuff ends up far better value than cheap stuff I buy on a whim.

I wear dresses most of the time. I wear thermal tights in the winter - if really cold I wear socks under them too.
I only wear boots for an outside production I do in winter.

I won't say I'm never cold, but it's unusual for me to be cold.

I don't like jeans at all, and rarely wear trousers, although I do like dungarees.

I agree. Unless I was doing a couple of loads of washing in the week, I would run out of clean clothes pretty quickly particularly in winter if I needed to layer clothes

With bare legs? If you have a skirt on with no tights or leggings in the winter. But you mentioned tights there. Of course they are not as thick as jeans though or trousers.

Jeans are perfect for weather in the uk. The only time I don’t wear them is hot days. In the winter they’re not cold. Definitely warmer than wearing a skirt!

I would definitely be freezing wearing skirts/dresses and opaque tights in winter.

Maybe you don’t spend much time outside?

Why on earth would I be freezing?

I have winter dresses and skirts in heavier and thicker materials and summer dresses in light materials and skirtsand in between. Dresses can be layered up with tight fitting long sleeved thermal vests under and cardigans and jumpers over and opaque tights and boots.

Tbh I don't understand how it's possible to wear jeans all year round - they're cold in the winter and stifling in the summer.

Just counted dresses - it's around 90 so I probably miscounted the other items.

Ha!

Is that an app? That looks like a great idea! I tried to cut down my clothes to the “essentials” and then I was supposed to do a one in one out system but it crept up again 🫣 I had another clear out when we moved house 6 months ago and since then have bought without updating at the total. It does depend on lifestyle - if someone has to have very formal clothes for work you’re going to have more than someone who doesn’t.

No shoes ?

What are your handbag numbers like ?

This is a lot OP.

Like some others I have way more, but tend to hang on to clothes. I never had many clothes when growing up and in my marriage was never thought worthy of having nice things

I know I now over compensate. I buy what I want and if it looks ridiculous to others I don't care. I mean I mostly wear cat clothes nowadays

Love a list…

You have a bit more than me. Maybe 30 items. I haven’t updated my list since my last clear out and restock 😬

Yes I keep a list. Yes that’s because I have a problem.

😂😂

I suppose there is no actual "normal" here but that doesn't seem "normal" to me. That sounds like no fun and not even that practical. I honestly don't know how you get by with such a limited selection of clothes.

I think a lot of this is very dependent on lifestyle.

Some people need a lot of clothes to accommodate different activities/ experience.

During the week I have three categories of clothes

• office wear (quite formal)
• WFH (a little less formal - but still teams ready)
• event day wear (more statement-y)

For weekends I have
• working in garden (stuff i don’t mind getting wrecked)
• very casual (jeans & Ts)
• lunch/trips out/evenings in pub (less casual, probably more interesting than WFH)

occasion wear
• black tie
• cocktail

• formal dress for wedding/party
• less formal party/night out
• particularly event (Ascot/Cheltenham)

Sportswear
• gym
• riding
• golf
• walking

different climates

• snow wear
• beach attire
• wet weather gear

there’s some cross over for me between the categories but not a huge amount

I've got lots of cardigans of varying length and thickness but I'm old and retired so wear them all the while, they are easier than jumpers and you can just throw one on if it's a bit chilly. There is a small pile of them sitting on the chair upstairs, part worn

I just counted 14 pairs of denim shorts alone, never mind all shorts categories