Price is not cost

The price is on the tag. The cost is on you.

Collections, campaigns and the business behind them — plus the one sum the trade never runs: what a garment costs each time you actually wear it.

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The cost-per-wear calculator

Price, how often you will really wear it, how long it will last, and what it costs to keep clean. It returns the only figure that describes what a garment costs you — and it usually reverses which of two items was the expensive one.

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