Where do you grade your clothes along the formal/casual axis?

Smart Casual - used to be about 20% but closer to 50%

Party Gear - used to be about 50% but slipping down to about 5%

Slobbing Out - constant at about 30%

So it's strange to compare this to someone like Joe, who is about 90% Grade 4, and 10% Grade 2.

Firstly, it says that my lifestyle is changing quite dramatically. Second it says, wow, I've got a lot of clothes.

suit: 5% (but also rising)
smart casual: 15%
party gear: 30%
slobbing out: 50%

I think I'm probably 90% Grade 4, 5% Grade 1 and 5% Grade 2.

Men will have a higher proportion in Grade 4 in general. Coz we're slobs.

Good

Bad

Smart

no special going out clothes, what ARE special going out clothes

oh, now I miss 5 % so that must be slob clothes I guess

but it depends highly on how much you have to conform at work.

my clothes probably are more on a line chart than a graph with more than one axis.

a) average casual-- normal jeans, loads of long sleeved and short sleeved t-shirts, clunky trainers. what i wear to work most days.

b) smart casual-- nicer jeans, fitted/tailored tops, trousers that aren't jeans, smarter shoes.

c)'ooh, are you going somewhere special?'-- because i slob out so much, people ask this when i wear skirts, flirty tops (all the going out tops fit in this category), large earrings, cute shoes (i'm wearing ribbon-ankle wrapped espadrille wedges right now and people keep stopping me to ask where i got them. yay primark!),trouser suits, etc

d) fancy-- very rare at this stage. little black dresses, skirt suits, anything that could be worn to a black tie event, wedding, etc.

i'd be happy if i could get myself out of the habit of a and into b and c more. and i'd really be happy if i had more occasions to wear fancy clothes.

so it's more just the formality axis for me, i think.

I have 5 suits right now, including one dinner suit and also a couple of adaptable pieces like a sweet, sweet dinner jacket. I also have a growing collection of ties. I am hopeless with cufflinks, so I've switched to ciff knots. 30%

2) Smart Casual. High conformity but lower formality. These are every day work clothes, functional but not necessarily stylish.

A lot of these. Big collection of shirts, a few s-c trousers, and a regular appearance at work = 30% of wardrobe.

3) Party/Clubbing/Stage Gear/Slobbing Out.

Effectively the same thing for me, since I don't often wear too much of my smart casual threads to clubs (though a cool, smart shirt always goes a ways on occasion). Actaully, I like to think of myself as an occasionally smart party slob. 40%. If I have a smarten up party percentage, it's possibly 10% of this, mostly by stealing from the smart casual section. And on reflection, I've never worn shorts and slippers out, but otherwise, the line's blurred.

Smart Casual - 30%

Party Gear - .999%

Slobbing Out - 20%

I'm almost always overdressed except when I'm naked or so grubby as to barely be permitted to leave the house. I haven't had or tried to have 'party gear' for so long, to try now would be ridiculous. Given my druthers I'd probably wonder around in a morning suit until it was time to change into white tie and tails.

Almost all jeans (mostly boot-cut), t-shirts, a couple of polo shirts, a few casual button-up shirts, a pair of black Docs and a pair of black Chuck Taylors. I need to get some new shoes, it's too hot to wear my boots and the Chucks are useless for walking longer distances.

That's not counting my work clothes, which are all covered in paint.