Hello again and happy weekend!!! Okay do you remember the book series, Where’s Waldo, the red and white striped character who was hidden in the sea of people?

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Well…I played a game similar to that. It’s called Where’s “Math”? Yes, that’s right. This week I challenged myself to find fashion related articles and try to find the math within. So here’s what I found:

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Subtracting heels, a new thing?
Math: Arithmetic

Could low heels be the new high heels?
New York Times Article

Boston Massacre T-Shirt for $150,000!?!
Math: Consumer Math

Not even two weeks after the Boston Marathon Bombing someone thought it was a great idea to sell this now one-of-a-kind t-shirt from Nike.

From Fashionista.com

Have you ever looked in your closet with a plethora of clothes staring at you in the face and you somehow  manage to complain that you have nothing to wear? I know I do. Well math tells us that we’re lying.

There is a mathematical term called the Multiplication Principle. It states that, if you have (a) amount of this object (b) amount of that object and so on, then the possible outcomes would be a x b.

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13 tops

14 Bottoms

9 Shoes

Possible Outcomes: 13 x 14 x 9 = 1638!!

Wowzers!! I have over 1600 ways to wear my wardrobe. I know you’re thinking some of the outfits might not go together or the weather may not permit for some outfits to go together. Well,  you are correct. However, even if you eliminated 600 from 1638, then you would still have 1038 ways. That means I don’t have to go shopping anymore because I have a year’s amount of clothes to wear, right? Yeah right, I’m never eliminating shopping from my daily exercises.

The point is you will always have something to wear. You just have to be creative and switch up the outfits. If you’re like me who always wear my black blazer with my black pants, for example, try to wear your blazer  with jeans for a casual look. You could also dare to be different and wear that crop top with a pencil skirt.

So, the next time you hear yourself say you have nothing to wear, think again and try out the formula.

Your turn

Take a look at your wardrobe and count how many tops, bottoms, and shoes you have then input the information into the formula and you will be surprised the amount of things you possibly wear.

Tops x Bottoms x Shoes = __________  ways to wear your wardrobe

Happy Pi Day! What’s Pi day you asked? It’s a holiday celebrated (mostly by math nerds) worldwide on March 14 or 3.14, get it?

“Fashionably”, I wanted to talk about pi. So, let’s say I have a polka dot t-shirt and I take a circle and

 

I measure the circumference. Circumference, by the way is the perimeter of the circle, and the diameter of the circle. Once I have this information I would set up the equation:

The answer would approximately be Pi, or Π.

Isn’t that amazing? In fact every circle you encounter, when dividing the diameter from the circumference, will always be pi.

Here are some cute circle related outfits for you to try and measure.

So, just remember if you are wearing circles, not only are you cute but you are a complex as well.

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Where √ 4  =

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and √ 2  = 

When I was a math student, I was always told that math was everywhere. So this blog is to prove that statement. It will bring the two different worlds of fashion and mathematics together. In simple terms, I want my fashionistas to view fashion through mathematical lenses.

“Ah, I didn’t know math could be so fashionable!” Image by: Léna