Items you regret not buying...

[Bunny2021]

This was several years ago now but Monsoon had the softest, green boiler suit/jumpsuit. I was a student at the time and couldn't justify it but I still think about it and regret not buying it.

Are there any items that you really regret not buying and now it's too late?

Some flat / small heel strappy Fendi sandals in about 1997.
I absolutely loved them and kept going back to try them on (I worked in Lakeside at the time) on my lunch breaks.
Never ended up buying them and always regretted it - they’d be an absolute vintage classic now with the original F logos and were only about £120 ish. Sigh

My Burberry wallet crossover bag. Use it everyday and it's just perfect. Aswell as fitting my cards, cash it also fits my huge phone.

A Vivienne Westwood dress which was reduced in the sales.

A fair isle cardigan in M&S in 2002. Camel coloured with cream fair isle pattern at the neck. Funnel neck, ankle length. I think about it every autumn!

Diaphanous white shirt with daisies stitched on the front, Miss Selfridge 1991.

I blamed that shopping fail for my crap student love life for years. No man could ever have dumped a chick in a floaty daisy shirt, surely?

I'll never know now will I.

Ooops sorry wrong thread

I wore a dress from coast for my friends wedding eight years ago that was leant to me. I regret not buying it or at least getting pics I've been searching for it ever since! My stepdaughter is getting married soon which is making me want it even more it's perfect

Tan cowboy length but not cowboy block heeled boots in top shop 1992. They were 55 quid. I think about them at least once a month. I'm almost certain they would've changed my life

A painting of a fish; the fish is swimming in a stream and the view is from above the water looking down. The artist painted water like I've never seen before or sice,

I saw it maybe 40 years ago at Glasgow School of Art graduation show, where it was for sale. I've been kicking myself ever since that I didn't buy it.

An apartment in Balham circa 1999 😅

In terms of fashion, the Prada Cleo handbag before the recent 50% price increase.

Anyone else noticed that inflation has been a whole other ballgame with handbags?

Chloe backpack in the outlet, have been regretting it for years.

An antique french green enamel fine bracelet. It was £60, 25 years ago and I didn’t have the money. I rarely like jewellery.

Back when Whistles was still owned by Lucille Lewin, their St Christopher's Place branch stocked a myriad of designer labels. Circa 1998 (give or take a year) I found the most perfect dove grey butter soft leather jacket by Martin Margiela. It was well-priced and the only leather jacket that has ever suited me.

To this day, I have no idea why I did not buy it 🤷🏻‍♀️

Also, a Chanel flap bag in 2016. The prices went absolutely insane after this, (and the quality has noticeably declined too).

Not quite something I regret not buying, but something I bought, didn't wear & then gave away, causing huge regret - a Max Mara weekend navy & white stripe relaxed jumper. It was the softest material with the most stylish cut ever. I got it half price around 2002. At the time I wore a lot of black & virtually no navy. Kept trying to talk myself into it but failed. I had an intense clear out on day & sent it to a charity shop.

Fast forward a year & I suddenly became navy mad. In fact, navy & white stripe mad. I still wear that look a lot almost 20 years later & I have never stopped being gutted at my own stupidity.

I sell on a lot of my clothes & that jumper is a haunting barometer - if I'm getting something ready to list on eBay & I have a flash of uncertainty I remember the Max Mara debacle & that's it - it stays until I'm sure I'm ready to part with it!

Years ago a beautiful APC A-line black leather knee length wrap skirt. It wasn't cheap but I could have afforded it - but I just didn't spend the sort of money on clothes at the time (indeed I'm 45 and I only just started spending that kind of money on clothes)

Another one which isn't something I regret not buying (I couldn't have bought it given that I was only about 11 or 12 at the time!) but that I'm still gutted I never owned was a dress I saw in Chelsea Girl in the mid eighties. The top section was white lace over white fabric & the bottom was black & tight. Definitive of that era.

I was shopping with my Mum, she let me try it on along with some other stuff, I asked her to buy it for me & she said it was too old for me. As a parent of a daughter that age now I completely agree with her! In fact I agreed at the time, I knew she was right. I still remember being so disappointed though. It was stunning. In a sense I've been looking for that dress for almost 40 years!

A month ago I would have said a Toast cord dress but as luck would have it I managed to pick one up from eBay worn once for less than half the sale price. Ditto M&S clog sandals from last summer and a Massimo Dutti paisley shirt from I can’t even remember when but I randomly searched for it after striking it lucky with the dress and sandals and bam there it was to buy. I had a good week that week obviously.

A black suede blazer in Top Shop in the late 90s. I’m still looking for an equivalent now. It would look so cool over jeans, much nicer than the series of leather bikers I bought instead.

If I regret buying something from the last few years I can usually find it on Vinted, eBay or depop!

Dior saddle bag around 2003

Halterneck midi dress, black with little flowers on from Miss Selfridge in 2004

Glasses in 2001

Now I buy and return

Arctic Monkeys tickets in circa 2005 (before they were huge). They were about £5 and I was a student so didn't buy them 🙄😂

Peacock blue/ green metallic Audi coupe. It was £16000, and I couldn’t possibly have afforded it, but I drove past it in the garage for months…just looking as I drove past

A pair of red Repetto Mary Janes.

I bought them in sensible black instead, but I really should have bought the red as well, they were divine.

The dog chewed the black ones, so now I have none!

This was in 1997... I found the most perfect pair of jeans I've ever had in my life. I'm 6', and the length was perfect, which was very hard to find back then. Everything about these jeans was amazing. A week after I bought them, I went back to the store and they had one pair left in my size and I agonised wether I should buy them. They cost £90, and back then, at that time in my life, that was a lot of money for a pair of jeans, so I decided not to get them. I told my husband about them that night and he insisted that I go back and get them because he knew how much I loved them. Went back the next day and they were gone. I still think about those bloody jeans.

I’m glad it’s not just me. The ironic thing about this particular jumpsuit is that there’s no way in hell it would fit me now 😂