Digitising My Wardrobe Using Whering

Yes, I do feel like I'm in Clueless

In my initial ‘How I track Cost Per Wear’ post, I suggested downloading the app Whering as an alternative to a spreadsheet. The effort of uploading photos of all your clothes seemed like a faff to me at the time and I decided against it. However, 4 months later, I have gone back on my word and downloaded the app. Spoiler alert, I’m enjoying it.

Whering is pretty much Cher from Clueless’ wardrobe app on her computer.

When I was writing my 2024 Wardrobe resolutions post, I had just read this post here by

The Wardrobe Edit

about wardrobe statistics. Most of which Anna got from Whering. As I’m sure we all know by now, I love data so I decided to download the app. It was in between Christmas and New Year so I had some spare time to upload pictures, prices and colours.

One of the things that put me off using Whering was whether my photos would look good in the app. It turns out that you can upload screenshots of items in the app and it removes the background for you. Therefore, if you use the images from the website where you bought the clothing, it will probably look pretty aesthetically pleasing. I was searching high and low online for photos of items I’d bought years ago and even used the Wayback Machine to find photos of an M&S coat, Maybe this was a step too far for some people but I did find the photo so it was worth it to me.

This is what the wardrobe dashboard looks like in Whering. The items in this section were all uploaded using screenshots from websites.

Whereas for items I couldn’t find screenshots of, I had to take photos. Let me tell you that late December in Edinburgh is not the time for taking photos 😆 It’s so dark! Some of the images below were edited and I still couldn’t get them to look the right colour. Despite this, Whering still removes the background from these images too so that does help.

The polo shirt in the bottom right is actually the colour of the ‘Add more’ plus button right beside it in real life.

It probably took me two days of solidly doing this to get everything I wanted to add in uploaded. In my CPW spreadsheet, I track sportswear too but I decided I’m only going to use Whering for everyday clothing instead. Plus, I couldn’t find any nice flatlays of the gym clothes I own so that would kind of ruin the vibe of my ‘wardrobe’.

The app provides you with some statistics about usage and CPW too if you want to track that but I’m probably going to keep CPW data in my spreadsheet as I have everything in there already. It does give you this fun pie chart though of the main colours of your wardrobe.

The fact that black, white and grey are my main colours *eye roll*. I really didn’t think I had that many green items but it turns out I must do.

Another fun feature, much like Cher' from Clueless’s wardrobe app, is the ‘Dress Me’ section. You can cycle through all your tops, bottoms, shoes, outerwear and dresses to mix and match and find new outfits. These new outfits can be saved and referred back to at any time. I think this is an ideal feature for helping you pack for a trip as you can plan outfits in advance.

An outfit I created in Whering which I then wore to work. I'd be struggling to find things to wear with these trousers so this was super helpful.

After reading a few Reddit posts on tracking CPW, I’ve also discovered StyleBook and Indyx which do similar things to Whering in case anyone would like to use a different app.

I’m considering writing a post about creating new outfits in Whering, especially as I’m doing a No Buy January. Hopefully, that will help me shop my wardrobe instead!

Thanks for reading,

Lily