retail formula = a + b = eBay?

So I just thought I would share with you all how much flash you can get for your cash via the internet shopping world.  When someone asks me ‘where did you get that [insert fab item here]?’ – my answer is almost always the big E – EBAY.  Mathematically speaking, I would say that at least 75% of the items contained in my wardrobe room are sourced from the world wide web, with the remaining 20% supplied from my next true love - sample sales, and then remaining minuscule 5% is made from actual shopping in physical shops.  Don’t get me wrong, I love shopping as much as the next girl (there is nothing I love more than surrounding myself with potential purchasing items) so perhaps to clarify this formula the last 5% is made up from items physically purchased in a bricks and mortar store. I can be found wandering happily in just about any sort of retail store just about any day of the week.. but this time is mostly spent doing reconnaissance work for future online purchases. Take today for example, I was hunting through the sale racks of the designer floor at DJs – and found a fabulous cornflower blue Manning Cartell midi skirt – reduced to $170.  Just so happens I am watching that very same skirt on eBay – BNWT $50. Now I know it fits! Or alternatively I spied a gorgeous two-tone Shakuhachi blazer (unfortunately non sale), which, over lunch, I found on their website (http://www.shakuhachi.net) on sale for $168. And then on ebay for $99! Yup – online shopping seems to win out every time!

So just as an example I am going to post the two outfits I wore over the weekend, as this provides the perfect snapshot of the above wardrobe mathematical formulae.

Outfit 1 - Saturday lunch with a gf: Seed Femme nutmeg polyester shirt - $65 (staff discount); Topshop neutral ponti panelled mini ($12 eBay); Country Road leather olive sandals ($15 - eBay)

Outfit 2 - Sunday lunch with the bf's grandparents: Zimmermann trivial garden silk panelled dress ($100 - eBay); Witchery tan leather skinny belt ($39.95 in store Witchery (AND full price too - couldn't pass it up)); J-Crew store turquoise statement necklace ($35 eBay) and again the CR olive sandals (that just go with everything) make an appearance ($15 - eBay).

So that is it - out of the six items i wore over the weekend - all but two were bought online. Did I mention I love eBay?

FFIFY xxxx