To ask whether you go for quality or quantity with clothes?

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Nice lighthearted topic for a Saturday night!

I've always been one to go for quantity rather than quality but I'm now trying to buy things less often but buy more expensive, better quality clothes that will hopefully last a lot longer. I've found in recent years that clothes from cheaper shops often mean you buy cheap, you buy twice.

I still buy reasonably priced clothes for the DCs though, from George at Asda or sometimes Tesco or Peacocks.

So out of pure nosiness, which do you do and where do you shop?

Quality, especially for every day stuff that I am going to get a lot of wear from like coats and boots and shirts. I am more likely to spend less on fun items and accessories.

I particularly don't like the look when women buy cheap basics and then dress them up with expensive logo-ed accessories.

I've found the quality of White Company dresses to be excellent but the quality of Phase Eight to be v hit and miss.

Quality. I don't really buy high street and prefer a discount on a good label, or full price but wear it a lot.

Yabu

Quality. I don't buy designer but I do try to stick to top end of High Street. For work wear (we are a business casual office) it is dresses, skirts and occasionally trousers from places like Reiss, Karen Millen, Coast, Banana Republic, Zara and Mango and tops mostly from Zara and Mango.

For weekends I tend to look for things that are a bit cheaper for the most part - Gap, Zara and Mango again, Wallis, Dorothy Perkins, maybe a bit of Topshop that sort of thing.

One of the best things I have learnt from my dh is to buy quality over quantity. Before I met him I would buy cheap stuff but was always replacing things. ( I bet his wallet regrets it now!!!)

White company dresses are lovely, I get most things in the sale and they last for years and wash well
Isabella Oliver is great too in the sale
Hobbs for work and sweaty betty for comfort
Cant wait for the sales !!!

Quality

For wardrobe staples I go for quality. For stuff that takes my fancy, cheap as chips.

Depends if I want it to last for years or just to make me feel good a few times. I couldn't afford to buy much at all if I went for quality every time.

The older I get the more quality and cut is vital. The odd cheap thing for fun but tbh they usually end up at the charity shop pretty swift. More expensive stuff makes me look and feel slimmer primark etc very unforgiving but it took me years to finally accept that!

Ah see my "cheap" would be er cheap, and when I am buying "nice" clothes it would be Next etc simply as that is expensive to me!!

I would SO love to be able to shop in more upmarket shops. One day.

More and more quality over quantity for me.

I have learnt the hard way that, for things like shoes and coats especially, quality is far more economical in the long run.

I still buy cheap t shirts from Primark, because they seem to last me quite a while without loosing shape and they are a nice length.

For DS, I buy second hand where possible but he goes through trousers within months so there is no point buying him expensive jeans, he gets holes in the knees just as quickly as if they are cheaper jeans.

I would rather wait for the sale and buy something 'better' than go to a 'cheaper' shop. Eg a sale top in Hobbs cost me 16 pounds earlier this year for much, much better quality than a Next top that would have cost at least the same. A White Company dress in the sale can be had for 50 pounds or under - a polyester dress in M&S would cost the same etc.

One person's idea of cheap will be someone else's idea of quality though won't it. So it's all relative really.

And I seriously believe that just because something is 'Designer' doesn't necesserily make it better quality than a non-designer item. Sometimes you are paying for the name, not the better quality.

I'm all for a bit of mending too when my charity shop stuff fails me!

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