Shopping For Basics
Filed in: Fashion, Links, Shopping
I find basics both difficult and boring to shop for. This means that the number of basics I need is growing fast. I need hoodies, cardigans, simple skirts, t-shirts, long sleeved t-shirts - you get the picture. Now that I have bought the most important trend items of the season it’s the perfect time to start investing in some good basics.
American Apparel have some perfect basics for my need. The t-shirts are in great quality and they have the small neck that I like. They also have lots of other great basic clothing. The first problem is that because of import rules and money issues I have to shop a little at a time. The second problem is the fact that The American Apparel Store have some of the most expencive American Apparel clothing available. The alternatives, that are much cheaper though they’re selling the exact same products, don’t have the same selection. In stead of paying $15 a tee or $38 a hoodie I turned to Oneoff Clothing that have an OK selection and sell the same American Apparel tees for $10 and hoodies for $26. You can get them even cheaper on Amazon, where the same tees are down to $7. These aren’t shipped to all locations though.
In the first shopping round for basics I ended up with three tees at Oneoff Clothing in black, heather and asphalt. I am very pleased with myself for making such good decitions and it even made me look forward to shopping for more basics.
Yesterday was fun. There turned out to be free Champagne at the party and concidering the amount I managed to get down it was a smart thing I chose a 
