Hi everyone.
This is a really noob question about Materia, but please bear with me. FFXIV is pretty much my first game ever, so this is all very new to me.

If I want to imbue my Vintage Robe with the maximum 5 bits of Materia:
- I wear a Vintage Robe until I achieve 100% Spiritbond.
- I must turn that robe into Materia, thus destroying it in the process.
- Buy another Vintage Robe, and repeat for a total of 5 times to get 5 pieces of Materia.

Once I have 5 bits of Materia:
- Buy another Vintage Robe and meld it with the 5 pieces of Materia I possess

So basically, if I am trying to do this without buying Materia from someone else, I need to go through 6 Vintage Robes to end up with 1 that would be the robe I keep?