1. I love to shop as much as the next girl. I love spending hours in BCBG, ogling over the latest heels and dresses. I rejoice when I see Banana Republic has put their latest jewelry on sale.
2. There are plenty of websites helping you to part with your cash by "saving" money on 60% off designer merch. Gilt Groupe is probably the best-known, though by far not the only one.
I am not here to help you buy more goods. I am very much anti-spending. If all the clothing I owned were to be perenially chic, original, and weather-appropriate, by heaven I would wear the same pieces from now until kingdom come. And I hope to show that this is the case.
The Student Sophisticate Fashion Manifesto
1. Style is not achieved by buying more clothing. Style is about what you do with the clothing you already own.
2. When wanting to inject something new into their look, budget fashionistas will be resourceful and look into their own closets, their parents' closets, their grandmother's attic, the thrift store, the vintage store, and then the sale racks, in that order.
3. Student Sophisticates do not bring out the wallet without a premeditated reason.
4. Student Sophisticates do not splurge on clothing that will fall out of their price per wear range.
Stores would like us to think that by spending our money there, we're helped to look more fashionable - but chances are, it's not the case.
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