Track wardrobe across a production
Wardrobe in SceneMatch belongs to the production, not to one character — so a coat worn by two actors is one piece with one photo set, attached to as many looks as it appears in.
Wardrobe is where continuity is won or lost, and the thing that makes it hard is not the individual pieces — it is that the same piece turns up in several places. A coat worn by two characters. A jacket that appears in four looks across three script days. If your list treats each of those as a separate entry, your continuity photos scatter and nobody knows which is authoritative.
SceneMatch avoids that by keeping wardrobe at the level of the production.
One piece, one entry
A wardrobe item lives in the production's warehouse. It has its own card, its own photos and its own details — size, source, condition, whatever you record — and there is exactly one of it.
You then attach that piece to the looks it appears in. Attaching does not copy it. There is still one coat, with one set of photos, and the looks point at it.
Sharing a piece across characters
Because wardrobe belongs to the production rather than to a character, the same piece can be attached to looks belonging to different characters. A coat that changes hands during the story is one entry attached to Elizabeth's costume look and to Cesar's, not two entries you have to keep in step.
Open the piece and you can see every character wearing it. Open a character and you see the wardrobe attached to their looks. Both views read from the same item, so a photo added in one place is visible in the other immediately.
This is the single most common thing people get wrong when they set up a production: creating a fresh wardrobe entry per character, and ending up with three "brown coat" cards whose photos disagree.
The thing that is not obvious
Deleting a look does not delete the wardrobe. The piece is production-level; the look only referenced it. Rebuild the look and you can attach the same piece straight back, photos and all.
The reverse matters too: deleting the wardrobe item removes it from every look that used it, across every character. If a piece is shared, deleting it is not a local decision — check who else is wearing it first.
Bringing wardrobe forward from a previous season
On a returning series you rarely start from nothing — the detective still owns the trench coat. SceneMatch carries wardrobe across seasons through a predecessor link on the character.
When a new season imports a screenplay, it can match characters against the previous season in the same series and link each one to its predecessor automatically. You can also link or unlink by hand from the character afterwards, if the match was wrong or a character was added later.
Once a character is linked, its wardrobe page offers import from the predecessor: every piece that character wore last season is brought into this one in a single step. Import twice and there is nothing to do — the option disappears once everything has come across.
Imported pieces are ordinary wardrobe items in the new season. Delete the ones that have not survived the hiatus and add whatever is new; nothing is tied back to the previous season's copies.
Getting the list out
Wardrobe exports to PDF from the wardrobe page, which is what most productions hand to a supplier or take to a fitting. The export reflects whatever is in the list at that moment, so it is worth doing after a revision rather than before.