Being Geek Chic is a blog about one woman navigating the male-dominated industries of production and tech. It's written by Elizabeth Giorgi, Founder, CEO and Director of Mighteor - one of the world's first internet video production companies. Learn more about Mighteor here.
After chatting about clothes for two years, I thought it was about time we talked about the economics of shopping habits. I hinted about this last week, but I have a very specific way I measure whether or not something is worth buying.
I break it down to cost PER wear NOT cost on the tag.
Why? Because cheap items are cheaply made. Some expensive items aren’t practical. As a result, the poorly made items simply can’t be worn as often and the expensive items end up being pricey closet decorators.
For me, if the cost of an item per wear is $0.75 or less, I buy it. If it’s between $0.75 and $1.25, I try to determine whether or not the item could be sold when I’m done with it to make up the difference OR if I can find a coupon or wait for a sale.
If it’s more than $1.25 per wear, I’ll usually put it back on the shelf. Without further ado, here’s a helpful infographic to explain:
I hope you can refer to this when you’re shopping so you spend your money wisely and end up being happy with your wardrobe. I also hope that the series on fashion basics has been helpful for all of you. According to Google, there are 300-500 of you visiting me everyday, but you don’t all comment so I can only guess that the lack of “rabble rabbles” means approval.
For those of you that do comment, thanks. It really helps me figure out if the things I’m doing are working for you. I want to be like the most responsive customer service line ever. (Within reason. If you tell me to eff off or that my fandom sucks, well, screw you.) As proof, I’m working on two new video series based off your comments. And one of them has to do with scarves. Thanks to you, I’ve realized that I haven’t fully explored my love of them. (Can you blame me? Sheesh, Benedict.) A couple helpful tweets, a comment and an email later and an idea is born. Can’t wait.
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