Clothes Shopping Tips

Americans, on average, spend approximately 5% of their net income on clothing and its care.  How much you spend should be determined or related to the amount of wear the item will receive.  The more times you wear it, the cheaper it becomes.

Money Saving Clothing Tips

• Visit thrift and consignment stores for bargains.

• Trendy clothing will go out of style before you get full wear out of it.
• Buy second-hand maternity and children's clothes.

• Take good care of your clothes.

• Mothproof your woolens when you store them for the summer months.
• Wash silk blouses and sweaters in cold water.  They may not need to be dry-cleaned.
• Don't use too much laundry detergent; it will weaken the fibers in your clothing.

• Shop wisely.

• Coordinate your wardrobe with interchangeable pieces.
• Take time at the beginning of each season to determine what needs to be added to your wardrobe and how it will fit in with what you already have.
• Choose darker color outerwear for less frequent dry cleaning.

• Don't forget about your shoes.

• Have shoes resoled to prolong the life of the shoes.
• Have tips put on the bottom of shoes to save the heel from wearing.
• Spray shoes and purses with weather protector.
• Keep an old pair of shoes in the car to wear when driving.