How to Build a Great Wardrobe Without Blowing a Hole in the Budget

Gain an understanding of what styles suit your body and you'll stop buying clothes for the back of your closet.
How to Build a Great Wardrobe Without Blowing a Hole in the Budget
Buying new clothes is fun but how often do we wear our new purchases? Victoria Fox/Shutterstock
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Imagine that by some stroke of luck and shopping reversal you had all the cash you’ve spent on clothes you didn’t wear in your wardrobe-buying lifetime. For most of us, that would represent quite a nice nest egg given our history of making so many back-of-the-closet mistakes.

This problem is, we shop without a plan, and the endeavor boils down to this: If it fits, it’s a candidate. And if it’s also on sale? Done deal. That kind of shopping can wreak havoc on a bank account and fill up the dark side of the closet, too.

Mary Hunt
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