Lots of people know from experience that they're staring in their wardrobe every day for tens of minutes to decide what to wear and hate it.
That doesn't change for them if some experts can't replicate the original findings of some "decision fatigue" paper. The burden of choosing every day is enough, even without fatigue.
Oh I agree, and to anyone who doesn't buy several dozen pairs of identical socks once a decade, all I can say is you don't know what you're missing.
But it was fashionable to cite these studies for a while and to consciously adopt strategies based on them. That's a bit different—more like reorganizing your diet based on studies that perhaps eventually get overturned.
I think it does. I'm guessing most of the people who take the single outfit approach do so based on what they've heard about decision fatigue. Not because they want to save the 30 seconds they spend picking out a shirt every morning, but because that decision supposedly impacts their decision making for the rest of the day.
> Lots of people know from experience that they're staring in their wardrobe every day for tens of minutes to decide what to wear and hate it.
Simple solution: Wear what is at the top of the clothes stack in your wardrobe and add clothes that come from laundry to the bottom of the stacks in your wardrobe (for computer scientists: Make the clothing stacks in your wardrobe a FIFO queue).
That assumes that you've optimized your clothes so that everything goes with everything else or that you don't care if things match or not. And if you're either one of those types of people you're probably not agonizing over what to wear in the morning in the first place
I own 3 pairs of dark blue jeans (of the same style), half a dozen tshirts (dark blue, dark grey), 4 shirts (all vertically striped).
I just wear whatever is clean, I don't think I've spent more than an hour on clothing choices in the last year (and most of that hour would have been picking a suit out).
I do make sure everything is clean and ironed though, I like to look neat if not smart.
Lots of people know from experience that they're staring in their wardrobe every day for tens of minutes to decide what to wear and hate it.
That doesn't change for them if some experts can't replicate the original findings of some "decision fatigue" paper. The burden of choosing every day is enough, even without fatigue.