Cladwell

I used to love Cladwell - until it seemed like they rebranded to be a tool for personal stylists, not the individual regular person. Like it’s great to put a few clothing items in a database for your clients to see a capsule. But for us regular folks, there haven’t been any really good updates in a long time. I have almost 500 pieces that I’ve taken the time to photograph & enter data on, which is the only reason I still have it. My biggest complaint is it seems to have not updated its terrible AI outfit suggestions since AI was invented. The AI doesn’t take into account today’s weather - living in New England, I find that to be a HUGE deal. It’s high of 97 degrees F today and Cladwell recommended black jeans with a black tee and black sneakers and several other outfits that just consisted of jeans, tees, and boots. So if you’re getting it for outfit suggestions, save your time! It just randomly picks whatever. Another thing is you can’t make cute “vision board type” looks by rearranging the clothing items and accessories on the screen; you will just see everything in a grid. And there’s no calendar view of what you’ve worn! The only time I ever use it now is for when I need to make a travel capsule - it’s good for that. But not $60 a year good.

This app is life changing in that I’ll probably rarely have to spend money on clothes again. It’s initially an investment of time to upload your clothing but it will save you time and money in the end. My only issue is that when it gives me my outfit suggestions it doesn’t have the name of the clothing item next to it. When you have multiple pairs of jeans or shirts it’s hard to know which one is suggested (cropped jeans? High rise???, which black pants?). I think this is important so you rotate your clothing and get usage of what you own. Other then that, I love everything about it. I’ve had my teen daughters install this and they are loving it. No more telling me they have nothing to wear!!! I do wish they would add features for clothing such as “sequin” or “gold/silver/metal accents” to shoes and clothing so it doesn’t pair a sequin dress top with something off. Also I agree they should add accessories feature to suggested outfits.

So this was a decent app a long time ago as far as outfit matching. However, now it will only ever suggest the same types of outfits and refuses to create outfits with certain things. For example, I have regular jeans and I have jean shorts. It will match with the regular jeans in even the hottest of temperatures but it will never pair with the Jean shorts. When I try to have it create outfit combos with the shorts it will say “Are you sure this is a good match?” When it’s the exact same color and excellent fit as the full jeans. The same also happens with two similar grey shirts. The only difference is that one has black lettering and the other is plain. It absolutely will match nothing to the one with the black letters but it will constantly match to the plain. Even the lengths are the same. Normally I might chalk this one up to just the graphic… but it will also match with my one graphic band tee all the time. It’s very strange. Also it wants to pair everything with a cardigan. 100F weather and nearly every outfit that’s suggested is paired with a cardigan. Other than that it’s a great app! They just really need to tweak their outfit creating algorithm. Right now I’ve switched to using Stylebook until Cladwell fixes this. I’m also a member of Cladwell and I like their website stuff and information, just the app algorithm is atrocious.