Very good question. I have a pair of red jeans that I adore. During spring, summer, and fall I wear them at least once a week (sometimes once a week). They are a signature piece for me and I am happy to repeat them.

I just bought a bright floral skirt that I hope to wear every two weeks year round. I love this skirt and want to wear it as much a I can (it has pockets).

I don't mind repeats if I love the piece. In fact, I am rather proud and look for new and interesting ways to pull it into my working wardrobe. In contrast, I am still finding my way with tops. I don't have any tops that I wear that frequently mainly because none of them make my heart sing.

Sterling - I love my red pants too! I they are actually what spurred the question. I wore them right around Christmas with a green sweater, then a few weeks later with a hounds tooth jacket, and am thinking about wearing them tomorrow for our office v day party lol

In my work wardrobe I would normally have between 5 and 7 dresses in rotation in any given season. I wear a work dress 4 days a week (we have casual fridays) so most weeks I would repeat between 1 and 3 dresses compared to the week before I guess. But, they are worn with different shoes, jewellery (mostly statement necklaces) or scarves and cardis/jackets/coats depending on the season.

Casual fridays have had a LOT of repetition but I've been struggling in that zone.

Dressy dresses I have usually 2 or more options at each of 2 different levels of dressy (casual dressy and event dressy). I have a couple of shoe and bag options to swap around and a few different cover ups and jackets. But my family have seen the same ones over and over LOL.

Loungewear/casual is all over the place lately because that is a work in progress but again a fair bit of repetition of the basics and essentials and more variety in shoes and necklaces and jackets (if I'm leaving the house LOL).

Super interesting! I tend to try not to wear work clothes more than once a fortnight. But I must admit that when I was teaching over two campuses one semester, I did tend to repeat the outfits each week, to save thinking too much!
I probably double up on weekend clothes a bit more frequently.
It is interesting how different everyone is on this!

What I feel the most right now is gratitude. For all of you sharing with me, and for the clothes that I do have. It seems like my wardrobe, which consists of quite a few pieces I do really like, if I'm honest with myself, and I don't have to repeat nearly as often as some do. Plus, now that I'm thinking about it, I see lots of repeats at work on my coworkers!

At work, I try not to wear standout pieces, like a blue blazer or patterned dress, more than once a week, ideally not more than once every two weeks. Plainer items get worn once or, occasionally, twice per week.

Socially, I don't usually see the same people more than once every couple of weeks. If I received a ton of compliments on something the last time a group of friends saw me wear it I might wait a bit to wear it again, but for the most part I think that if I cannot remember what I wore or what the other friends wore last time I saw them, chances are they cannot either. A lot of people wear somewhat of a uniform, such as jeans + button down or skirt + billowy top, so it all starts to blend together.

Tr3kki9rl, you are right - when I thought about it, I realized I see my coworkers repeating items or, in most cases, I cannot even remember what they wear because they wear a lot of neutrals and basics. I do no think I have ever thought to myself "oh, he/she wore that suit a week ago." I just don't notice.

Haven't read the other responses, but for me, if I like an item, I wear it plenty. I have some distinctive intarsia sweaters—one with a dog on it, one with an apple—and I wear them at least once a week, maybe twice. I don't mind repeating items at all. Even if I had something very eye-catching like red pants, I wouldn't hesitate to wear them a couple of times in the week if I wanted to, as long as the wears were a few days apart from each other.

tr3kkie9rl--I really perked up when I read about your scheduling your 12 dresses, lol. I enjoy that kind of planning and scheduling, too.

I have black pants and a black turtleneck layering sweater which have been worn once, if not twice or thrice, every week this winter. Pieces which are more "statement-y" I try to wear not more often than once every couple of weeks to the same place (i.e. work). The great thing is that I might wear a favorite sweater to work on Tuesday, to an evening rehearsal on Wednesday, and to a social event on the weekend. So I can enjoy three wears of a statement piece in one week, and no one is the wiser (except me!)

Since joining YLF and thinking a lot more about wardrobe planning, I'm letting myself have a few pieces which will only be worn a handful of times each year. For example, I have a sweater with sequins which I wore a few
times over the holidays and then I put it away until next year during the holidays. Limiting the wears makes the item feel fresh and almost new when I take it out again.

Windchime I'm glad you relate to my scheduling!! Every year I find myself more and more drawn to it, in most aspects of my life. I still have plenty of outlets that aren't scheduled too but structure is comforting to me.

I have a sparkly sweater I only wear around the holidays too and each year when I take it out for the first time I'm always so excited!