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If You Love Designer Wares - How to buy at Your Price

Many of us love Designer brand clothing.  We love it so much that we eat, sleep and well, do everything we can to get them in our closets!  When I have a brand that I love in my closet, that makes this girl very happy.  While I don't "corner" the market on the brands I enjoy wearing, I do have one trick I use so that I can afford those that I absolutely adore.
 
Cord-Framed Crinkled Satin Skirt, Ivory/Cream
 
              From Designer, Phillip Lim as seen at Bergdorf Goodman online
 
 

Do you want to know what that trick is?  I am sure that you, my dear curvy divas, know this already because you have been doing the very same thing all along, especially since you read and follow this blog.
 

The one thing all of us fashionable ladies do, and of course some gents who are in the know, we shop the bargains!  We wait for and look for the sales and discounts!  Do I hear an "Amen"?!lol~!  Yes, that is exactly what we do. Not everyone has disposable income, or spendable cash all of the time, therefore we love sales!  Whenever our favorite brands and/or designers are on sale, well, we're all over it!
 



To purchase at "my price", I continue to do this:
 
  • I browse my favorite store and look at new items and designs that are in.
  • When the price is not right for me, I wait for it to go on sale; or I will ask a sales associate in the store when their sale will be coming up. And you know what, they usually tell me, and some of the intuitive ones will even take your number!
  • Watch and see. Yes, I stalk the item(s) until they are at the lowest price! Have you ever done that?!  Even better is when the item is on sale in the store, and it gets matched for a competitors price!
  • Once I was in the store shopping, I went in with a coupon that was mailed to me; in addition, there was a sale that very day with additional mark downs...then guess what else?  The item(s) were already on the stores lowest mark down!  I purchased that item for less than buyers cost!
  • It is good to note that sometimes the prices online are a lot less than those in the store.
Tory Burch Two Band Canvas Wedge get it for a steal at Bergdorf's!
 

So the next time you want to purchase your favorite designer wares, shop around, or wait for the sale!

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