If you had £200 to spend on clothes what would you buy and where would you buy it?

[Enid]

I do

I suppose I need to get a pair of jeans (yawn)

what would you get?

french connection /oasis

Some long boots
Good quality winter coat
nice chunky knit cardi

cream cardi coat in coast £100
jeans the limited m & s 40 quid
some good fresh tshirts - d perkins or m & S.
and a crisp white wrap over shirt Coast again

or
trousers monsoon denim fabric i think 60
nice shoes in monsoon a bargain 35 or something - leather lned!
and cardi in coast
cowl neck top from somewhere in balck - all purpose winter item

If it was an unexpected windfall I would either buy some brown leather boots, some new underwear, or some beauty treatments.

i need a nice long chunky cardi but where?

NaO
the one in coast is cream and long

This is quite nice

Knee high brown leather boots, probably from Jones The Bootmakers;
Lots of lovely patterned tights - Monsoon;
something gorgeous from Plumo.

£200? On just me? For myself? Sigh.......................

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boots

About six ago I tried on a pair of boots in Hobbs and they were wonderful - they were comfortable and well-made and sexy and practical and made my legs look very good indeed.
But they were £120.
I couldn't justify spending that much at that point, so I left them, hoping they'd be in the sale. And of course they weren't, and I never saw them again.
I still kick myself - they'd have paid for themselves by now at £20 for each winter's wear.

(Can't believe I did the same thing with a Fat Face sale cashmere jumper last year - when will I learn...)

A great winter coat

and some trinkets with the change

Depends on what you 'need'
One or two classy staples or some bits to liven everything else up/If the latter,check out New Look.

Has come on amazingly recently.

they say(!) the trick is to get one or two quality pieces and get inexpensive little tops and accessories

Hard to beat a good pair of jeans - soul destroying trying to find them mind you, I was really lucky recently and got a pair of 'seven ' jeans in TKMaxx for £25!! Would love a long wool coat possibly in jade green - would compliment my auburn hair. But ofcourse to echo MarsLady "£200 on myself" - I wish.

farraday i love that site, i could spend probably a grand right now with out even seeing it in a shop.
the skirt shapes are lovely.

Mrs Badger, I did buy a pair of the most wonderful boots in Hobs over a month ago. They were not cheap but what the hell, I need them! I thought.

Well I got home and there it was an almost exact copy of those sitting in my shoe rack. I swear I've tried justifying keeping them in every possible way... in the end I've returned them.

Now I sigh everytime I pass in front of the shop!!

btw: for me it would be a pair of good jeans, or a winter coat, or boots without a doubt!

Depends what you need.

For the winter I still need

A nice warm coat
Another pair of jeans
Some warm tops/jumpers
Some tights to wear wtih shorter skirts and boots

GOOBBLEDdigook, what happende dto that lovely boden coat you bought?

oh lazyblue - that's so last season!

Sunglasses... they would be around £150.

I don't know though. Often feel like spending money on myself & then finding absolutely nothing that I like

I am currently looking for:
flattish boots
some shoes to go with my new black & white dress
a cardi type thing to go with new dress
jeans

I have a couple of good winter coats so luckily am ok there

I really do need jeans (soooooo boring though) and boots

but do I get 'evening' boots eg with a heel or 'day' boots, flat ones (they always look like wellies to me)