Heritage denim jacket
$190 · resold $110 · 180 wears
per wear$0.44
Sold after three years — the resale market covered more than half the jacket.
Calculator · Resale mode
Resale-adjusted cost per wear.
Plain cost per wear ignores the end of the story: most wardrobes quietly hold resale value. Subtract what an item will actually sell for, divide by the wears, and expensive-looking pieces often turn out to be the cheap ones. Run the math below, or read the formula and worked examples.
Also see the classic cost-per-wear calculator and the seasonal cost mode.
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It-bag of the season
$480 · resold $140 · 22 wears
per wear$15.45
Trend pieces shed value fastest; the math catches what the mirror does not.
Leather boots, resoled once
$340 · resold $90 · 410 wears
per wear$0.61
Durability compounds: every extra year drops the per-wear cost toward zero.
Frequently asked questions
What is resale-adjusted cost per wear?
It subtracts what an item will realistically resell for from its price before dividing by wears: (price − resale value) ÷ times worn. A $220 coat that resells for $80 after 200 wears cost $0.70 per wear — the resale market paid for almost two-thirds of the coat.
How do I estimate resale value?
Check recently sold listings (not asking prices) for the same brand and condition on the resale platform you would actually use, then knock off the platform fee. For everyday high-street pieces, assume near zero — that honesty is what makes the number useful.
Which items hold resale value best?
In rough order: sought-after denim, quality leather boots and bags, classic wool coats, and hyped sneakers. Fast-fashion blends and altered tailoring resell for close to nothing — for those, plain cost per wear is the honest metric.
Why does the calculator cap results?
Inputs are clamped to sane ranges (positive numbers, price under a million) so a typo cannot produce a nonsense headline. The formula itself is exactly the one on this page.
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Armoiria logs every wear automatically, so this math keeps itself current for the whole closet.