How Best of Fashion is counted

What Reccas tracks

Reccas currently covers women’s clothing, shoes and bags. It records named product recommendations from fashion publications, editors, stylists, creators and product testers. Today the dataset holds 296 independent recommendations of 147 products from 37 sources across 44 categories. The full list of sources is on the sources page.

What counts as a recommendation

• It names a specific product, not a brand or a style.
• It is attributable to a publication or a named person, and Reccas links to it.
• It is independent of the company that makes or sells the product.
• The product can be matched to an exact item that is still sold.

What does not count

• A brand’s own product page or marketing.
• A retailer’s product listing.
• Customer reviews on a brand or retailer site.

These appear on product pages as references, because they confirm product details, but they are never added to a product’s count.

Tested versus listed

Every source is marked as either saying it tested, wore or owns the product, or simply listing it. Most fashion recommendations come from publications that earn a commission on what they recommend, so a product several of them say they tested is stronger evidence than one they only list. Both are shown beside each count, and tested sources break ties.

How products are ranked

Each product’s count is the number of different independent sources that recommend it. A source is counted once per product, even if several of its articles mention it. Within a category, products are ordered by that count; when two products tie, the order is editorial. Commission rates and affiliate availability play no part in the order.

Nothing is crowned

Reccas does not name winners. Most products are recommended by a single publication, and real agreement is uncommon, so each category simply lists what is recommended in order of how many independent sources recommend it. Narrower versions of the same question are folded into one category so the evidence is not split. A category with fewer than 3 sources is still shown but is kept out of search engines.

How a product gets onto a list

Reccas reads the guides that established publications publish for each category. A product gets a full entry in a category automatically once 3 independent sources name it there. A product named by only one or two sources is listed more briefly under it, with a link to the article. In a price-capped category, a product is added only if an article states a price within the cap.

Shopping checks and money

Reccas checks that each product is still sold and shows a current price where one is available. Some shopping links are affiliate links and Reccas may earn a commission. Where no affiliate link exists, the link goes straight to the product. Nobody can pay to be included or ranked.

How recommendations are kept fresh

Every week Reccas re-reads each source article and checks that it still names the product. Each guide shows the date its sources were last verified and how many were confirmed; each product page shows the date per source. Prices are checked daily where a live price is available.

• If the product is found, the recommendation counts.
• If it is not found, the article is read a second time by an AI model. If that read finds the product under a slightly different name, the recommendation keeps counting. If it finds a different model or nothing, the recommendation stops counting that day and is shown as no longer listed, with the date.
• A publisher that blocks automated readers cannot be re-checked, so its recommendations are shown but not counted.
• A recommendation that stops counting is never deleted. The record of when it stopped is kept.

Known limits

• The dataset is small. Counts of three or four sources reflect agreement among the sources Reccas has recorded, not the whole fashion press.
• Reccas began logging recommendations on 2026-10-07, so trends over time are not reported yet.
• Several large publishers block automated readers, so their recommendations are not counted. That makes the counts conservative.
• Most recommendations do not yet carry the name of the individual writer or the date the source published it.
• Agreement is not the same as fit. A widely recommended product can still be wrong for you, which is why each product keeps its fit notes and caveats.

Corrections

If a recommendation is misattributed, a link is broken or a product is matched wrongly, email hello@reccas.com and it will be fixed.