Garment Longevity Calculator
Expected wear life from fabric, care, and usage frequency.
Inputs
Results
Estimated total wears
200
Months of wear life46.2
Years of wear life3.8
Cost per wear ($)$0.25
Annual care cost ($)$13.00
Annual total cost ($)$25.99
How to Use This Calculator
- Enter Fabric type, Care quality, and Wears per week.
- Set Wears between washes and Garment price ($).
- Review the Estimated total wears result.
- Use Months of wear life and Years of wear life to inform your decision.
How the result changes with Wears between washes
| Wears between washes | Estimated total wears |
|---|---|
| 1.9 | 127 |
| 4.15 | 277 |
| 6.85 | 300 |
| 9.1 | 300 |
What each input means
- Fabric type
- 0=Cotton casual, 1=Cotton dress, 2=Wool suiting, 3=Synthetic athletic, 4=Denim, 5=Silk, 6=Linen, 7=Cashmere.
- Care quality
- 0=Poor (hot wash/tumble dry), 1=Average (warm/low dry), 2=Good (cold/hang dry), 3=Excellent (hand wash/dry clean).
- Wears per week
- How many times per week you wear this garment.
- Wears between washes
- Number of wears before washing (e.g. jeans every 5-10, underwear every 1).
- Garment price ($)
- Purchase price of the garment.
What each result means
- Estimated total wears
- Total number of times you can wear this garment before replacement.
- Months of wear life
- Estimated garment lifespan in months at your wearing frequency.
- Years of wear life
- Estimated garment lifespan in years.
- Cost per wear ($)
- Purchase price divided by total expected wears.
- Annual care cost ($)
- Yearly cost of washing or dry cleaning this garment.
- Annual total cost ($)
- Total yearly cost including depreciation and care.
How this is calculated
Worked example, using the default values
- Identify Input Parameters4 parametersFabric type = 0, Care quality = 2, Wears per week = 1, Wears between washes = 3 = 5 input(s) provided
- Calculate Estimated total wearsEstimated total wears200 = 200
- Calculate Months of wear lifeMonths of wear life = weeksOfLife / 4.3346.2 = 46.2
- Calculate Years of wear lifeYears of wear life = monthsOfLife / 123.8 = 3.8
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