I usually post a load of outfit photos for these capsule round-up posts, but I didn't take a single photo over winter. I just wasn't in the mood. Winter is probably the least exciting season in terms of outfits as I tend to hibernate in jeans, jumpers, and lots and lots of layers. And the idea of standing outside in the cold taking photos really didn't float my boat.

What I did do over winter was keep a tally of how often I wore everything in the capsule for the three months it lasted. I was intrigued by the idea after promising myself I'd follow the #30Wears rule when buying clothes i.e. if I don't think I'll wear something 30 times or more, I won't buy it.

But that does beg the question, how long does it take to wear an item 30 times? Do I ever wear items 30 times? Do I wear my 'favourite' items as often as I think I do? I decided to find out.

The only item I wore 30 times or more were my wide leg jeans, found in a charity shop in August last year, photographed here in October. I wore these 31 times during the first three months of the year.

It came as no surprise to me that jeans were worn most often. If they're a good fit, my jeans are worn until they fall apart. Of all of the clothes I own jeans are the only things I can say, without a doubt, that I wear more than 30 times.


Next up was long cardy that often served as an extra layer in the evenings, this was worn 27 times.

My long sleeved striped t-shirt was worn 18 times, and shows my penchant for layering in the winter months.

My skinny jeans only got 16 wears, possibly because I've fallen out of love with them. The stretch has gone, so they'll be going off to the rag recycling, but I do know that in the time I've had them (three years) they would've been worn far more than 30 times. I practically lived in these when they were new.

One of my wardrobe staples is this navy jumper, which had 15 wears.

My newly re-discovered leather jacket came out 14 times.

And my bootcut jeans (which have possibly been in my life longer than Andy, and repaired many, many times), and my wax jacket each racked up 13 wears.

My black long sleeved t-shirt had 12 wears, the pink jumper, purchased in December, had 11 wears (and is not faring too well, truth be told).

A March purchase, a pair of pre-loved Gap cords, were worn 11 times (and 5 times already from my spring capsule!).

My beige jumper, another navy jumper, and stripe jumper each got 8 wears. My khaki skirt 7 wears.

An old cowl neck jumper 6, my green jumper 5, and 4 wears for my cocoon cardy, Joules top, pink check shirt, heart print shirt, and red floral skirt.

My floral shirt, grey jumper, green skirt, and black jumper had 3 wears each.

Two wears for my grey coat, twist top, khaki trousers and newest grey cardy.

The only things that didn't get worn are my black mini skirt, my black skinny jeans, and my beige maxi. The later I think wasn't worn due to it being an odd length after I had to take the hem up to repair it. I think it needs to go from maxi to midi in order for me to wear it again... back to the mend pile it goes.

Of course some of these items have been worn before, as this only shows what I wore over three months, from a 33 piece capsule, but it does show how some items can take a while to be worn 30 times.

The idea behind the #30Wears rule is to wear the clothes we have more, and for longer. You can find out more about the idea behind #30Wears here, and I'll leave you with this one statistic, if clothes stayed in active use for nine months longer (extending their average life to around three years), this would reduce their carbon, water and waste footprints by 20-30% (source).