to find it a bit wearing that most of the style and beauty threads link to clothes I thing are very expensive?

[sushistar]

I don't think DP and i are very poor or anything, we have a slightly above average uk household income, but I shop for clothes on the highstreet - I mean a NORMAL highstreet and the cheaper end at that, not Kensington highstreet! But when I go on the style and beauty threads it seems the cheapest suggestions and links are boden and it gets more expensive from there. I have never bought anything from boden because I think it is expensive - is it just me?

i bought a pair of H&M trousers recently (stupidly didn't try them on)bought a size 16 which in most shops is slightly big, but rather that way than a 14 which looks a bit tight.

They went no where near me. in fact my next door neigbour a 12/14 ouldnt get them on, in the end my DDIL 10/12 has them, since heard a lot of people complain about the sizing.

the sizing is slightly different, but because i shop there ALL the time i am really fmailiar with it and have kind of forgotten how the rest of the world sizes their clothing!

yabu, unless you seriously expect that just because you don't spend a lot of money on clothes no-one else should be allowed to either. or that they shouldn't be allowed to discuss it on mn

people have hugely differing incomes and different priorities. i don't have heaps of disposable cash but i spend a high proportion of what i do have on clothes because i get enormous pleasure from them. just because i buy most of it in sales/ebay and fund a fair bit from selling on older stuff doesn't mean i expect everybody else to do the same. there's definitely a trick to buying labels that sell well on ebay, so if it doesn't fit or you get bored/grow out of it you can still sell it on and get a fair proportion of your money back, or even turn a profit.

riven - if you do venture into ebay it's a really good idea to ask for garment measurements, then compare to something you already own (rather than body measurements), generally i find i can predict the fit of ebay items much better than online shop-bought stuff, and if you're set up to sell on again then the odd mis-purchase doesn't have to be the end of the world.