Fashion · Price is what you pay once
The purchase price, plus care and repair, minus resale, divided by the wearings you will honestly get. The only figure that says whether a garment was expensive.
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Choose a category or enter your own numbers. The wearings a year are pre filled with figures we consider honest rather than optimistic, and you can argue with them.
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