Every wardrobe decision starts from a number nobody prints on the range page: what shopping here usually costs. A single sale item tells you nothing. A brand’s reputation tells you less than you think. What a reader needs is the ordinary price of an ordinary garment, and that is a thing that can be sampled rather than guessed.
So the directory samples it. For each researched brand, the full-price items on the brand’s own petite listing were recorded and the median taken. Where too few full-price items were visible to make a defensible figure, no figure was recorded. Nine ranges produced a usable sample. Twelve did not, and their records say so instead of estimating.
What a sampled median is, and is not
A median from one listing on one date is a snapshot of how a range prices itself, and that is all it is. It is not a promise about any garment, it moves with the season, and a sale can make the shop window look nothing like it. It answers exactly one question: when this brand prices a petite garment at full price, what is the middle of its range?
The nine ranges with a usable figure
The table below resolves from the directory at render, so if a sample is retaken the figures here change with it. The two budget-band entries bracket one end and a single premium range sits alone at the other; everything else prices into the middle band.
Side by side
The nine researched ranges with a usable price sample, cheapest tier first. Both fields are inferred from a sampled median of full-price items on each brand’s own petite listing, and each cell states that basis.
- $
- Median full-price item 34 when sampled
- $
- Median full-price item 49 when sampled
- $$
- Median full-price item 99 when sampled
- $$
- Median full-price item 99 when sampled
- $$
- Median full-price item 145 when sampled
- $$
- Median full-price item 148 when sampled
- $$
- Median full-price item 160 when sampled
- $$
- Median full-price item 180 when sampled
- $$$
- Median full-price item 325 when sampled
Two things in that table matter more than any single figure. The spread between the cheapest and the most expensive sampled range is roughly tenfold, which means “petite” is not a price category at all. And the middle band is crowded, which means the mid-priced ranges compete on something other than price: block, documentation, returns, category depth.
The twelve with no figure, and why that is the honest answer
The remaining ranges either showed too few full-price petite items on the sampled date or could not be sampled cleanly. Writing a number anyway would have meant estimating from sale prices, from the regular range, or from memory, and all three inventions would look identical to a real figure on the page.
Recorded data
A range without a usable price sample, shown as the directory records it. The blank is a fact about what could be sampled, not about the brand’s prices.
- Price tier
- Not established
- Typical price
- Not established
- Returns
- Returns at buyer’s cost
Using the number before you spend
The practical use of a tier is sequencing, not judgement. A capsule built from the middle band costs roughly what the budget band costs times three, so the question worth asking is which pieces deserve the multiplier. The pieces that carry structure, a blazer, a coat, a trouser that must break correctly, benefit most from the bands where documentation and drafting are better evidenced. The pieces that carry no structure benefit least.
The tier question, per piece
- Does this piece carry structure that alterations cannot cheaply fix?
- If yes: shop it in the band where the block is documented.
- If no: the budget band is not a compromise.
Cost per wear is the other half of that arithmetic, and it is a number you build from your own record rather than from any listing. The calculator linked below does exactly that and nothing else.
The limits of this page
- A median is a snapshot of one listing on one date. Sale periods will not resemble it.
- Nothing here prices a specific garment, and no figure on this page is a quote.
- Twelve of twenty-one ranges have no usable sample, and their blanks are part of the finding.
- Currency differs across the set, and no conversion has been applied anywhere.
