A wardrobe inventory app for clothing, footwear and accessories
Clothing is usually the largest part of a household's contents by item count and the smallest part by documentation. Photographing and pricing it changes both what you can claim and what you buy next.
Ask someone what their wardrobe is worth and the answer is almost always low by a factor of two or three. It is a long tail of ordinary purchases that never feels like an asset until it has to be replaced all at once.
A wardrobe inventory is not about counting socks. It is about the coats, boots, suits, bags and occasion pieces that would genuinely cost money to buy again, plus the handful of items with a resale market of their own. It is one part of a wider home inventory app rather than a separate exercise.
Know what your wardrobe is worth
Photograph the pieces that matter and let Vekrin keep the receipts and values with them.
What to record, and what to skip
Record by value and by replaceability, not by category. Everyday basics can be counted in bulk; anything you would notice the cost of deserves its own entry.
- Outerwear — Coats and jackets are the most expensive things most people own in fabric form.
- Footwear — Boots, formal shoes and running shoes, with the size and the purchase date.
- Bags and luggage — Handbags, work bags and suitcases — often specified separately on a policy.
- Occasion and tailoring — Suits, dresses and anything altered to fit, where replacement means buying and fitting again.
- Designer or resale items — Brand, model, condition and any authenticity card, dust bag or box.
- Bulk categories — T-shirts, underwear, socks: an approximate count and a total, not thirty entries.
A wardrobe of two hundred garments is usually thirty records and four bulk lines, not two hundred rows.
Why insurers care about clothing
Contents cover includes clothing, and after a fire, flood or burglary the clothing line is where claims most often fall apart. Nobody can list a wardrobe from memory, so people under-claim, and the settlement reflects what they could describe rather than what they lost.
Photographs solve most of this. A dozen pictures of hanging rails and shelves, taken in daylight, evidences volume and quality in a way a spreadsheet never will. Individual entries then carry the items an assessor would otherwise question.
High-value single pieces — a designer bag, a fur, a watch worn as an accessory — may exceed a policy's single-item limit and need specifying. What that means in practice is covered in home inventory for insurance, and watches belong in the jewellery and watch inventory instead.
Building the inventory in one afternoon
- Photograph the wardrobe as it stands
Rails, shelves and shoe racks. Context shots first, individual items later. - Pull out the twenty items that cost real money
Photograph each one, including the label and any serial or authenticity marking. - Find what proof already exists
Order confirmation emails and card statements reconstruct most purchase dates. - Price the rest in bulk
Group by category with a realistic replacement total rather than an item-by-item guess. - Add new purchases as they arrive
One photograph and the receipt at unboxing keeps the record current for free.
The claim that came in at half the loss
A burst pipe soaks a built-in wardrobe. The claim lists a coat, two suits and 'clothes, approx. £1,500' — because that is what could be remembered on the day, under pressure, with the floor still wet.
The photographs taken eighteen months earlier would have carried three times that figure and settled without argument. They just did not exist.
Vekrin Wardrobe
This capability is Vekrin Wardrobe — a view of the same household record used for everything else, so a clothing purchase scanned by the receipt tracker lands in the right place without being re-entered.
- Photos and receipts together — Proof of ownership stored with the item, not in a separate album.
- Values with dates — What you paid and what it would cost to replace, each timestamped.
- Shared household — Both partners see one wardrobe record rather than two half-lists.
- Insurance export — Wardrobe can be included in an insurance evidence pack with photos attached.
Common questions
- How do I make a wardrobe inventory for insurance?
- Photograph the wardrobe as a whole, then record higher-value pieces individually with brand, purchase date, proof of purchase and a replacement value. Group everyday basics as bulk categories with a realistic total.
- Do I really need to list every item of clothing?
- No, and trying to is why most wardrobe inventories are abandoned. Individual entries are worth it for outerwear, footwear, bags, tailoring and anything with resale value; everything else can be counted in groups.
- What proves I owned a garment?
- A dated photograph of the item in your home, an order confirmation email, a card statement entry, or the tag and box for designer pieces. Any two of those together are difficult to argue with.
- Does a wardrobe inventory help with resale?
- Yes. Buyers of second-hand designer clothing and bags pay more when the purchase date, original receipt, packaging and condition history are all available in one place.
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Know what your wardrobe is worth
Photograph the pieces that matter and let Vekrin keep the receipts and values with them.