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05 · Track · Free tool

Cost per wear calculator: what each wear of a piece costs you.

Cost per wear is what you paid for a piece divided by the number of times you have worn it. Enter the price and the wears below and the answer appears straight away. The sum is done in your browser, with no account and no server working it out.

Free for anyone, with no account. It works out the answer in your browser.

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Price, wears, answer

Cost per wear

Enter a price and how many times you've worn it. The sum is done in your browser.

How it works

One division, counted honestly

Cost per wear only means something when the wear count is right, so it is worth counting days rather than guessing.

  1. Step 01

    Enter what you paid

    The price you actually paid, after any discount, in the currency you paid in. Pick the currency from the list; it starts on the one your browser's region uses.

  2. Step 02

    Enter how often you've worn it

    Count days, not outfits. A coat worn to work and out to dinner on the same day is one wear.

  3. Step 03

    Share the result

    The price, wears and currency are kept in the page address, so copying the link shares the same result.

Worth knowing

Cases the number gets wrong

Not worn yet
With no wears there is nothing to divide by. The first wear makes the cost per wear the full price, and every wear after that brings it down.
Sale prices
Use what you paid, not the original price. A bargain you never wear still costs its whole price per wear.
Gifts and hand-me-downs
A piece that cost you nothing costs nothing per wear, however often you wear it.
Comparing two pieces
Work out both. A pricier piece you wear every week can cost less per wear than a cheap one you wore twice.
Counting wears

Keep the count without remembering it

The hard part of cost per wear is knowing how often you have worn something. Wardrowbe keeps a log of what you wear, from wear checks and the wears you log, so each piece has its own count to bring back here.

How Wardrowbe tracks what you wear
Questions

Asked about cost per wear

How do you calculate cost per wear?

Divide what you paid for a piece by the number of times you have worn it. A jacket bought for 120 and worn 40 times costs 3 per wear, in whatever currency you paid.

What counts as a wear?

A day you wore the piece. Wearing it twice on the same day, or in two outfits on the same day, is still one wear.

What if I haven't worn it yet?

Then there is no cost per wear yet, because there is nothing to divide by. The first wear makes it the full price, and each wear after that lowers it.

Is my data sent anywhere?

The calculator sends nothing itself: it does the sum in your browser and makes no network requests of its own. Your numbers are kept in the page address so the link can be shared, which means anyone who opens that link sees them.

Can I use my own currency?

If it is in the currency list, yes. The list covers the major currencies, from the US dollar, euro and pound to the yen, rupee and rand. The calculator starts on the currency of your browser's region and formats the result the way your browser formats money.

Does Wardrowbe calculate cost per wear?

No. Wardrowbe keeps a log of what you wear, from wear checks and the wears you log, so you know how often you have worn each piece, but it doesn't work out cost per wear. Use that count here.