Office outfit
Structured, mostly neutral
Build an office outfit from my structured pieces in cream, ink and denim. Use one accent colour at most, and include a layer I can take off indoors.
Sample lenses
A lens is a written instruction the model follows when it reads your closet. Below are 19 you can copy into the app as they are, or edit first.
How to add one
- Click Copy brief on any lens below.
- In String Hopper, open Lenses and click Create a lens.
- Paste the brief into Describe your lens and click Analyze.
Create a lens shows every step with screenshots.
Match your own tags
These briefs mention tags like structured or cozy. If you use different words, change the brief to match before you analyze. A lens can only use tags that are on your pieces. The chips under each brief show which fields it uses.
Everyday & occasion
Outfits for work, weekends and going out. Each returns a main look and one or two alternates.
Weekend outfit
Everyday pieces in soft fabrics
Build a weekend outfit from pieces tagged everyday or cozy. Prefer cotton, knit and fleece.
Dinner out
One statement piece, the rest plain
Build an outfit for dinner out. Start from one piece tagged statement or occasion and keep the other pieces plain and dark. Prefer silk, wool or linen over fleece and synthetics.
Video call
A top and a layer for a video call
Pick a top and a layer for a video call: solid mid-tone colours, a structured shape, and clear contrast between the two pieces. Do not put cream with cream.
Colour
Lenses that choose pieces by colour. They need colours filled in on your pieces, not tags.
Single colour family
One colour family, light to dark
Build an outfit using only one colour family, from its lightest piece to its darkest. Say which family you chose and why. Use a different family for each alternate.
One bold piece
One bold colour with neutrals
Find the piece whose colour differs most from the rest of my closet, and build an outfit around it using only cream, ink and denim for the other pieces.
Warm colours only
Sage, honey, clay and cream
Build an outfit using only sage and olive, honey and mustard, peach and clay, and cream. No denim blues and no ink.
Complementary colours
One complementary pair with neutrals
Build an outfit around one complementary colour pair — denim with peach or clay, or sage with rose — and keep every other piece neutral. Name the pair in the note.
Season & fabric
Lenses that choose pieces by season and fabric. The app tells every lens the current season.
Hot day
Linen and cotton, no layers
Build the lightest outfit I own for a very hot day: linen and cotton only, pale colours, pieces marked for summer, no layers.
Cold-morning layers
A base, a mid layer and an outer
Build a three-layer outfit for a cold morning: a base, a mid layer in wool or knit, and an outer piece. Keep the colours within two families.
Cold morning, warm afternoon
An outfit with a removable layer
Build an outfit for a day that starts cold and ends warm. Use pieces marked for more than one season, and include one layer that can come off and still leave a complete outfit.
Capsules & travel
Each returns a set of six to ten pieces and a few ways to combine them. They need a closet of about a dozen pieces or more.
Carry-on capsule
Five days, one bag
A travel capsule for five days in one carry-on: pieces that all mix and match, two bottoms at most, one outer layer, and nothing that only works in a single outfit.
Work-week capsule
Monday to Friday from one set
A capsule of interchangeable pieces that covers a five-day work week. Structured and mostly neutral, and every top should go with every bottom.
Summer capsule
Linen and cotton in light colours
A summer capsule: linen and cotton in light colours, pieces marked for summer or tagged breezy, and one layer for the evening.
Two-family capsule
Two colour families plus cream
A mix-and-match capsule drawn from only my two largest colour families plus cream, so that any piece in the set can be worn with any other.
Editing down
Lenses that suggest two to four pieces to reconsider, each with a short reason and a flag: Duplicate, Off-palette, Dormant or Hard to pair. A lens does not remove pieces.
Find duplicates
Near-duplicate pieces
Help me declutter by finding near-duplicates: pieces in the same category and colour family with a similar fabric. For each pair, say which one to let go and why.
Off-palette pieces
Pieces outside your main colours
Help me declutter by colour. Flag the pieces that sit outside my most common colour families and pair with few other pieces.
Hard-to-pair pieces
Pieces that go with nothing else
Find pieces I could let go of because nothing else in my closet goes with them: no matching colour and no obvious partner in another category.
Cold-weather clear-out
Duplicates among cold-weather pieces
Help me declutter my cold-weather pieces. Among the wool, fleece, corduroy and knit, which ones duplicate each other, and which pair with few other pieces?
Tips for running a lens
- Limit what it reads. Under Runs on, pick tags or categories, or use Choose pieces… to leave pieces out. For example, limit Video call to Tops and Outer.
- Run it again. Results vary between runs. If a result isn't useful, run the lens again.
- Occasions. Only the built-in Planner asks for an occasion. For a single event, such as an outdoor wedding in June, use the Planner or ask in Chat instead of making a lens.
- Large closets. A lens reads up to 90 pieces at a time. If you have more, limit the lens by tag or category to the pieces you want it to use.