Five specific situations come up for almost anyone working from home, and each one has a different answer:

• What to wear on video calls — the top half has to hold up on camera; the bottom half doesn’t matter at all.
• What to wear the rest of the day — pants you can sit in for eight hours and forget you’re wearing.
• What to wear before you’re dressed — the first hour, coffee, and whatever counts as a commute now.
• What to wear on your feet — home offices run cold in ways actual offices don’t.
• Whether pajamas and loungewear are even different things — they’re not interchangeable, and it matters for what you buy.

If you’re self-employed specifically, rather than a remote employee, there’s a sixth angle worth reading: how the calculus changes when nobody’s tracking your hours or your outfit.

None of these five pages assume you need all of it. Most people working from home end up needing two things: something for the camera, and something for everything else. Start there, and read further if a specific problem — cold feet, an unclear line between pajamas and daywear, mornings before you’re presentable — actually applies to you.