The clothes saved for a perfect occasion still age while waiting.

Saving something for the right moment assumes the item is waiting neutrally, and it is not. Fabric yellows, elastic goes, styles move on, and your shape changes, so the perfect occasion arrives to find the dress no longer quite right. The cost of waiting is invisible because it happens slowly and in a wardrobe. Meanwhile the ordinary days that would have been improved by it went past unattended.

Wear the good thing to something unremarkable this week. A Tuesday is a real occasion, and the shirt kept for a party that never gets scheduled is not being preserved so much as spent quietly.