Normally, I'd be fully absorbed in the new items hitting the stores, I'd have left last season behind without a by your leave. Sales, pah! Who cares about the sales has always been my mantra...but... a combination of forces, global economics (actually I'd love to be more specific and execute a rant about a bunch of ****** who played monopoly and one player failed to tip the board up to prevent the game going to far, I'm big into digressing at the moment), personal circumstances and the fact fashion went too far, or more specifically the retailing of garments went bonkers. Equally this time last year I'd be chomping at the bit for my weekly fix of Grazia and I was also fresh to blogging, I'd been reading quite a few and then decided to join the party too. Well my views on sales have changed and my life has changed due to blogging - bizarre!
On the sales front there are still plenty of desirable items to be had. Take these going out shoes in
Reiss at £74.50 they make more sense than at their original £149.00 price tag.
Still at Reiss this belt at £24.50 is bang on colour for the coming S/S09 season. It is a hip belt and the leather is quite iridescent, not quite patent, but nearly. I quite like hip belts because I can pop to my little man at Bond St tube heel bar and he punches new holes in the belt and I can get more use out of it wearing it on waist or hip. He keeps telling me I can buy better hole punch pliers in B&Q and I keep telling him do I look like I want to go to B&Q!
Of course, the reason sales are better is due to a downturn in spending and also over proliferation of stores and garments in the high street. However, I will wait in future to see what the sales deliver on items that are nice but indulgent when I can spend again!
What changes have you made? Are sales more appealing than before?
PS. Plus more on my rambling later...
I thought my sale spending was over, but I did somehow acquire a fuschia silk high waisted skirt today for $39 reduced from $150. I do try to buy things which will be transeasonal when I'm sale shopping, unless the prices are insanely low.
ReplyDeleteI also bought an electric blue leather skirt today for $5 from the op-shop and I don't know quite what I'm going to do with it, what do you reckon?
I had high hopes for these sales, with all the offers even before Christmas I thought everything would be 70% and it was going to be amazing, but then the money off was still just on a small selection of things you'd wear once and then never again. Although i did get a lovely jewel green silk dress reduced from £110 to £36.
ReplyDeleteBut i'm not a big high street shopper any more (charity shops all the way!), so my expectations are slightly off and every time I go to the shops i end up disappointed and pining for the good old times when h&m stuff still used to be ok quality.
I haven't found anything that great in the sales for a few weeks now. I find that shoes especially get snapped up within the first week, and because I'm a size 6 which is quite average all the good styles are gone.
ReplyDeleteI love the belt though, maybe I'll have more sales luck with belts?
I think the prices are better...good for us :)
ReplyDeletea kiss for you!
Hmm, i'm not sure the sales have been that amazing. Although I do love a sales bargain...maybe I just have unrealistic expectations!
ReplyDeleteOooh, what I'd give for BOTH of those picks.
ReplyDeleteThe ban prevents further sale-shopping, but if it weren't tying my hands, I'd bet I'd still be cruising the sales. I've noticed, as you have, that there are STILL bargains to be had, even this late in the season.
I have gotten a few really good deals due to the extreme sales. I got four pairs of jeans for $140( full price would have been over $400) and just yesterday got gorgeous boots for $100!!!
ReplyDeleteHi there-I was very smitten with the coats in Net a Porters sale, I hope to save up this year and buy one this time next year in their sale, if they do as good bargains!
ReplyDeleteThose shoes are quite nice. I went to my friend Zang Toi's sample sale yesterday and got some AMAZING dresses.
ReplyDeleteGreat Q - sales are WAY more appealing to me now!
ReplyDeleteLooooove those shoes!
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I love your rambling! Keep it going!
ReplyDeleteI can't find anything I like in sales lately :/
ReplyDeleteYou sound like me. I've still got eyes for all the fantastic bargains around. Not that I'm spending my money on them. At all. Ahem. xx
ReplyDeleteI'm a bit off shopping right now. Not because I don't love it as sport, but because I can scarcely justify injecting anything new into my beloved, but full, wardrobe. I can only wear so much. I would love it if people would pay me to take them shopping for gorgeous things. I'd even love it if they'd let me dress them and not pay me (but buy me lunch).
ReplyDeleteSales are definitely more appealing but I still cannot stand to go in store and rifle through racks of rubbish sizes...it's all about sales shopping online for me
ReplyDeletejimmy choo black patent leather calf boots half price. I wonder if I wore them with voluptuous padded bra and g string if Mr Hammie would forgive the spend?
ReplyDeleteNice shoes.
ReplyDeleteNo, I've not found anything really appeling on sales. Well the crisis also afected me, so I'm really careful with my shopping.
Have a great weekend
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