How much do you spend on clothes in a year?

I thi k I would find it difficult to work out what j actually spend after I've ordered on the internet and then sent stuff back. For instance, yesterday a blouse and a cardigan together £120) I had ordered arrived but the cardigan was very short and the blouse was an awful colour so that's £120 I might have spent but didn't.

It's only fairly recently that I have felt happy spending money on myself gilly - now I love it! Not just clothes but flowers for arranging, flower arranging courses, plants. But i dont take it for granted.

Cannot believe that so many of you seem to ‘smuggle clothes in’ or pay on a separate credit card or whatever, so husbands don’t know what you’ve bought or how much has been spent.

Pathetic.

DoraMarr I do like those boots, very nice and fashionable.

Like Terribull, I'd much rather browse in a bookshop. I definitely spend a lot more than £150 per year on books.

I think £150 is extremely frugal. I don’t think I spend a lot, but 2 new decent bras, a pack of pants and a new pair of Clark’s sandals and Sketchers trainers (all bought at sale prices), would make that budget disappear before thinking about anything else. I would consider all these to be annual purchases so struggling to see how such a small budget would suffice.

I don't spend much .....but £150? This year I've recently spent £75 just on shoes, earlier in the year £70 on boots in the sale. So footwear alone costs a lot. Mind you, the boots should last me 3 years.

Blimey

Perfume is something that I would get as a present for my birthday or Christmas . I would never buy some for myself . Although I confess it would be a delicious treat .

I used to spend £150 just on perfume when I was working.

No sure why but I suddenly feel so guilty for spending almost £90 on myself for the first time since I can remember . I doubt I’ll be buying anything else any time soon though .

It’s obviously just spare change to some but it’s a lot to me . And unlike L’Oreal
I’m really not worth it .

I probably spend two to three thousand. I love clothes and spend around £150 on a dress, and more if it’s really special. Having said that, I actually don’t buy that many things, just a few nice ones. I have really awkward feet, and I know the brands I can wear comfortably, and they are expensive, but worth it to be comfortable. I have my eye on a pair of Geox bronze leather ankle boots, and I might just buy them when I am in France next week ( no Geox shops near here.)
www.geox.com/en-GB/phaolae_woman-D94FDA000KYC6008.html?ordering=standard-sorting
I don’t feel guilty about spending on clothes: I spent years being careful, with a husband who always said “you don’t need it,” so it’s nice to be able to buy what I want, whether I need it or not.

Hardly anything

On the radio it stated an average woman wears a new clothes item 5 times before discarding it!! I found that very hard to believe

Me too mumofmadboys. My things get a lot more wear than that and the Next cord jeans I've got on today have actually got a hole in the seat, but they're comfy & I keep them for slopping about at home in

I remember seeing Mrs Thatcher in a programme about clothes.
Her advice was to only wear clothes that you felt right in, whatever the occasion might be. And that the initial outlay you paid for something wasn't as important as the number of times you wore it, ie, cost per wear.

Most of my things have a very low cost per wear and I've collected them over a long period of time.

It varies a lot from year to year, but would always be a good bit more than £150, which I think is very frugal.

I don’t have masses of clothes, and apart from a couple of ‘dressy’ outfits, I tend to wear things until they start to look a bit tired. I certainly don’t replace things every season. Even so, I don’t think £150 would keep me in shoes and underwear most years. I’m very fortunate I know, that it doesn’t have to.

I do find now that clothes often don’t last like they used to; newer items often wear out while older ones keep going.

you clever detective witzend. Yes it is and it is utterly gorgeous toscana. I felt embarrassed at the amount I spent. The boots are the short blue ones with a side zip because I can get them on easily. Nothing else planned for winter

Craftyone, would that perchance be a gilet from Celtic Sheepskin? I have lusted after one of those - they often email me since Ive bought boots and slippers from them, and I know dh would not object at all if I treated myself, but I do find myself thinking more frugally nowadays....

The one thing I'm def. going to buy from C. Sheepskin, though, is their infant fleece for new little Gdd due early January - lovely to lie on esp. since dd has hard floors. Can't bring myself to order just yet,though, hopelessly superstitious about buying for new babies before they've arrived safely.

I wouldn't like to say, I buy whatever I want, which would have been a luxury once but sod's law, now I have the money, I'm not that interested in retail therapy these days, in fact i don't find it therapy at all. Possibly because I live within walking distance of a large town that is awash with all the best that clothing shops have to offer. I rather take those shops for granted, in any case I'd much rather browse a book shop, than a dress shop. I buy randomly in fits and starts, I'd hate to do a planned shopping excursion, the pursuit of buying clothes something I loved so much for many years, does nothing for me anymore I'd much rather go out for a walk that takes in the beauty of nature, or visit a NT property.

Judging by some of the links and labels mentioned......er a hell of a lot more than £150 a year!!

I don`t buy clothes in charity shops, too busy to browse but I do donate to them. No idea how much I spend, if I want it I buy it but mainly I buy if it fits my short body, then I might buy eg a couple of pairs of trousers not one

I recently found and bought short winter tights for rounded ladies, I think I spent £60 but enough for all winter and beyond and what price fit and comfort. It does mean I get to wear my dresses and skirts

Two weeks ago I bought sheepskin short boots and sheepskin slippers and a beautiful sheepskin gilet. No price will be mentioned but they will last me many years. So yes well in excess of £150 spent but I don`t care tbh, I scrimped all my life and these good quality made in Britain garments will last me

mumofmadboys, I had a colleague (my age) who used to buy absolutely masses and masses of clothes, but only if they were really cheap. She'd say, 'Well, even if I only wear it once...'.

She would often tell me that she couldn't possibly afford whatever I'd paid for a new top (usually just M&S) and didn't seem to hear when I pointed out that I probably only bought one top to every 25 she bought. (I'm not exaggerating there.)

When adding up shoes, underwear and all the rest the £150 is low for me but I don't think it frugal.

Look for sales on line and in shops. Very rarely I buy clothes from charity shops never really see anything I like in our local ones.
I think £150 a year is about what I pay that’s not a lot really. My winter clothes are in the suitcase in our wardrobe which I will bring out later in the month and check over.
The SE has quite good winter weather so I don’t buy lots of thick jumpers, just lighter tops. Plenty of scarves and warm coats.

I rarely shop unless I do actually need something but recently had to replace several items due to weight loss. I spent a lot more than £150 but i'm very happy with what I bought.

I've set myself a rule that I will not keep anything unless I love it and feel good wearing it, so all those items that I've kept simply because they were 'too good to throw out' or 'still got plenty of wear in it" have gone. I clear out regularly and sell clothes, bags, shoes etc for 50p per kilo to the local clothes recyclers.

I probably spend more on shoes/boots than most people but that's because I've got really tiny feet (size 2). Shoes for me tend to be expensive and hard to find.

I find it very difficult to buy clothes just because I like them - I have to actually need them! OH doesn't have the same problem, he loves clothes and shoes and feels cheated if he comes home empty handed from the shops!

Retirement means I only buy what I want to wear, and as I love vintage, my choices are not always in fashion, and the 'look' lasts for longer. Charity shops and sales keep the cost down. By the time they become cast offs, they are worn to bits and go into 'textile' recycling.

£150 is probably about right for me although I may have exceeded that this year, but only because I replaced a worn out pair of shoes with 2 pairs the same style as they were so comfy, then another pair of shoes which I didn't really want but had to because of dress code at work - they decided sandals were not proffesional enough even in the height of summer - so needed a pair of closed front shoes I could wear without socks!
I mostly buy clothes at supermarkets or in sales so never spend much.
The cardigan I wear most of the time when it is cold is well over 30 years old. It was a size 14 and has grown with me although it wouldn't button up now even if it still had all its buttons! I remember buying it in a little boutique in Oxford when I was in my first or second job back in the late 70s. It lurked at the back of the wardrobe for a while as I thought it was too small then discovered it again and now wear it all the time. I often buy 2 different colours of the same style if it is cheap, comfy and suits me.

I don't know how much I spend on clothes but I doubt it's more than about £100 per year. But I'm with MissAngel here, I'm not that interested in clothes as long as they hide most of the bulges and are comfortable, I'm happy. I don't wear clothes out much and still have plenty that are over 20 years or so old.