EBay

Perhaps the most obvious way to fund a lavish fashion lifestyle is to trade in stylish seconds. EBay was every fashionista’s best-kept secret long before the rest of the world discovered it (along with www.fashionexchange.co.uk and www.clothesagency.com).

Swapsies

This can only work with friends or family who trigger ‘wardrobe-envy’. Sisters, friends, and mothers and daughters, have been borrowing each other’s clothes without thinking for years. Now "bring-and-try" parties, where you can swap an item of interest for an equally appealing fashion piece have become as popular as Ann Summers parties in the suburbs.

Factory Outlets

"But, I Reeeeeeally Neeeeed It!" you shriek about the latest Jimmy Choo ‘Ramona’/Marc Jacobs ‘Casey’, like a demented six year old with a new Bratz doll. Factory shops are for people like you.


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