"One Year, One Outfit" 11 Years Later - Topic of the day 4/17/25
In 2014, a Reddit user garnered much attention for his attempt to wear only ten articles of clothing for the year. The commentary on Reddit at the time is interesting to read, but how do you feel about this ten years after the fact? Is this something you could do for a year in some way? Why or why not?
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i’m sure i won’t be the only one here to say that this wouldn’t be any fun for me bc i love dressing up. BUT! I find it interesting to read about.
As the minimal possible wardrobe it's a fun theoretical idea but in reality itself it would be highly bothersome, and I am currently working off a capsule-sized wardrobe. I'd have to literally wash clothes by hand every day because I live in a tropical climate.
I tend to find most of these anti-fashion in the sense that they're usually for the functionality of eliminating choice vs having to deal with creative selection.
It's cool if you don't care about what you wear to the point that you can focus on other stuff in your life but then why pretend it's fashion.
This feels like the logical conclusion of the specific type fixation of quality over quantity found that is found on reddit
It also sounds like a great way to make something like a stain a much more urgent problem than it usually is
He clearly doesn't live anywhere cold, which simplifies things.
I wonder how long between washes for those pants.
yeah there is a way to do this in a cool, interesting way, but you kinda have to go into it with the drive to be creative within the constraints. I could see a challenge like this for a period of time being really fun, forcing you to use pieces in unconventional ways or diverse stylings to keep variety up. but plenty of people want something like this because they just want to not think about fashion but still "look good".
Yes. Choosing a limited wardrobe is something I enjoy about traveling. But that's for a few weeks (at most).
I think it’s also worth mentioning that the guy who did this was on parental leave for 6 months
yeah the issue is i buy a ton of clothes only to accidentally only wear like 10 pieces a year anyway
at some point im gonna downsize like craaazy because I’d actually probs benefit from a capsule type wardrobe
I think this is conceptually interesting, but really you won't get away with 10 Items without a tumble dryer, and even then its kind of a pain.
I like to micro dose this concept whenever I buy a new thing and I wear it for like 10 days straight
Lately I have embraced a certain sameness in my outfits, and have realized that while capsule wardrobes frequently are an anti-fashion thing, they dont have to be:
Basically a capsule can also be a way to clarify ones own sense of style by asking: If I only get to look the same every day, how do I want to look? You don't make that many day to day decisions, but the ones you make are very meaningful and require a lot of thoughtfulness.
I brought like 25 things to wear for 30 days I could never
I remember being jealous of the fades that guy was getting on his apolis chore coat
That guy's shirt looks a bit tight imo
It’s from 2014 so yeah
This has been my goal since I started caring about clothing, though a bit less extreme (I have 8 shirts, for example). I suppose you could call it anti-fashion, but for me it's still a fun way to be conscious of what I wear and how it looks without feeling the need to buy new things regularly. It's nice to pick up fashion as an interest for a few weeks, find something I like, and then forget about it for a year or two.
I do not enjoy doing laundry enough to even consider this.