The concept for the community originated in September 2004, when Weardrobe co-founder Suzanne Xie, while living in a University of Chicago dorm room, started tracking all of her clothing using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. By the end of 2007, Xie and her friend and co-founder Rich Tong had realized that there were no online applications available to organize clothing, and began considering the possibility of creating a platform to fill this void. Their discussions spawned the basis for Weardrobe, and the site officially went online in January 2008.
