How many clothing items, including shoes and accessories, do you own? My answer: 25. Literally only 25 items that are monochromatic and can work in multiple spaces, with an emphasis on investment pieces (read: expensive ergonomic shoes). And phew, does that get boring fast.
However, I also find the shopping experience tedious, and thrifting causes sensory overload for me.
I recently had a lot of fun creating premium, shoppable looks through the artificial intelligence app Doji, and wanted to find a platform that used AI to reimagine the clothes I already have. Enter: Acloset.
What is Acloset and how does it use AI?
Acloset offers wardrobe digitization, where you can upload photos of clothing items and AI will categorize, tag and organize your items. It’ll make outfit suggestions based on your selected body type, activities and local weather. You also have the option to log daily outfits and receive suggestions based on previous looks. The AI also offers the ability to personalize the service over time, utilizing the AI tool’s memory bank.
ACloset features a free plan, which holds 100 items (which is more than enough for me and my 25 total items), or a paid subscription model at $30 to $120 a year after an annual discount. While it positions itself as a «smart closet in your pocket,» it does emphasize versatility over shopping for new pieces, with its tiered offerings catering to users depending on their closet sizes, budget and level of commitment.
While my wardrobe is extremely and intentionally minimalistic, Acloset’s AI suggestions felt helpful in getting the most out of my limited closet. Since I knew the upload process (for me) wouldn’t take too long, I was open to seeing how Acloset could help with reimagining my wardrobe before I went out to make any additional purchases.
How to use Acloset as a fashion assistant
Using Acloset is pretty simple, though the manual uploads for each clothing item can take a while, depending on how pieces many you want to put in the system.
- First, download the app available on iOS and Android, and sign up for a free or paid subscription. Answer a few of the app’s prompts to personalize your setup before landing on your profile. Navigating through the app’s assistant is helpful to understand how its functionality works.
- Now, you can start adding clothes to your Closet (or create multiple variations of closets for various looks or even personas). You will need to upload at least 20 items of clothing to meet the minimum requirements. Acloset’s AI feature will tag and categorize the items for you.
- Once you’ve uploaded all your pieces, scroll over to the Outfit tab. Here, you can add ideas, either by category or with AI’s suggestions. This is also where you can create Outfits Of The Day or piece together outfits for specific occasions or for a color or texture preference.
- Toggle over one more tab to Packing, where you can create outfits for an upcoming trip.
- Once you have inputs, Acloset will provide recommendations that you can then track or plan future outfits with. Over time, Acloset’s AI can analyze your wear history, cost-per-wear and outfit efficiency.
- Toggle over one tab on the bottom of the screen to AI Styling, where you have access to all of Acloset’s AI functions in one place. There’s also a tutorial titled Learn with Emma’s Closet on the page, which is helpful to see how this assistance comes to life.
- Toggle over to Feed, which features community-created looks and trending ideas.
- Toggle over to your personal page, which contains metrics related to your closet, app and location settings, and another button for AI Styling.
Should you use Acloset?
With competitors like trendy Whering and the highly organized Stylebook available, Acloset seems to combine the two with both AI wardrobe management and outfit planning with a focus on reducing overbuying or clothing waste — with additional features like cost-per-wear and wear frequency analytics.
Acloset’s focus is truly on simplicity. With AI integration, building from an existing wardrobe and a focus on reducing overbuying, I do see it as an assistant rather than a fashion inspiration app. If you are a minimalist or consider yourself someone with a «capsule closet,» are sustainable minded or are simply busy, Acloset is a good choice for placing those characteristics in a digitalized format.
Something to consider is how often you utilize different apps and if you want to add another to your routine. I had to add Acloset to my phone’s dock to serve as a visual reminder to use it, which I assume is a common problem for many of us in an oversaturated, highly technological world. However, since Acloset is an app and not a website, you can compile functionality in one place without navigating to the tool in a browser.
If you spend hours scrolling through social media apps to get inspiration, then maybe there’s an opportunity to do the same through Acloset, but you can focus on the items you already have.
There’s a message about gratitude in there, somewhere.
