When you are feeling the effects of the recession, clothes might be the first casualty of your budget. After all, you can always recycle, re-use and redesign your old wardrobe to suit new trends.
However, you don’t have to totally forgo shopping for clothes with these tips for purchasing your summer clothes on a budget.
Choose Classics
Classic pieces like white dress shirts, polo shirts, dark jeans and formal trousers, sports jackets and suits must be an integral part of your wardrobe. You can mix and match these clothes to create different looks, textures and styles for both day and evening occasions.
For example, your jeans and polo shirt with a blazer can be used for casual business meetings. Just shed the blazer and you are ready for a night out.
If you want, you can update these classics by purchasing new pieces in trendier cuts, colours and cloths. This way, you can get good value from the clothes since you will be trendy today but still be able to use them when the fashion season is over.
Quality over Quantity
When on a budget, always opt for quality over quantity. Although the high quality clothes will cost more than its low-end counterparts, you will be assured of good value through superior craftsmanship and better cloths.
When you choose high-quality jeans, you can dress up and dress down as you wish with a few simple accessories. With low-end jeans, the texture itself may not be conducive to such versatility.
Buy Accessories with Care
As previously mentioned, accessories can complete an outfit, change the look of an item of clothing and complement the person. Therefore, it is very important to choose your accessories with care. The opinion in accessories is the lesser, the better. This ought to make shopping on a budget easier since you don’t have to stuff your bags with lots and lots of accessories.
Again, remember that quality over quantity is best.
Look for Discounts and Sales
This is obvious that it is almost an embarrassment to say it here. You can find big discounts in department stores and the designer houses during clearance sales, sample sales and out-of-season sales. The trick is in always being updated about the stores that are offering these consumer benefits.
Another cool strategy is to become friendly with the sales associates. You can secure bigger discounts through discount coupons when you ask them nicely, not to mention that you can have your desired items reserved for you. That is, if you are friends with them.
In the world of online shopping, you can purchase clothes from auction sites. With a little research, you might even purchase coveted designer jeans with the tags still on and at bargain basement prices. In fact, as much as offline stores give discounts, so do online sites.
Therefore, whether you shop online or offline, these tips to shopping for your summer wardrobe on a budget will apply. The only difference will be the way you shop, the former with your mouse and the latter with your feet.