Women waste billions on clothes never worn

Financial Express ^ | 1/8/06 | Reuters

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LONDON, JANUARY 7: British women have spent more than 7 billion pounds buying clothes, shoes and accessories they will never wear, according to a survey on Friday.

Women have 14 items of clothing, on average, lurking in the back of their wardrobes that they have not worn in the last year, the survey by home insurer Churchill found.

Each unwanted item cost an average 21.82 pounds, which meant Britain's 24 million women spent 7.3 billion pounds last year on clothes they did not wear, the insurer said.

Nearly two-thirds of women (62 percent) said that they bought their fashion follies in the sales, the same proportion as bought clothes a size too small in the hopes of dieting to fit their latest finds.

Churchill said women were spending an average 305 pounds a year on clothes they would never wear, or 12,810 pounds in a working lifetime.

"Many householders are guilty of buying new clothes in the sales which will never get worn," said Martin Scott, head of Churchill Home Insurance.

[Bon mots]

Oh well... I thought it would break at least 200. The girls must be sleeping tonight.

[MotleyGirl70]

I’ve talked with a few other young women and they see nothing unusual about having that many shoes!

A hundred pairs is nice collection. I own about 70 and devoted one closet just for shoes. I have probably 12 pairs of black high heels alone.

A woman can never own too many shoes :)

[R. Scott]

A woman can never own too many shoes :)

So it seems. Maybe it’s a genetic thing?

[brwnsuga]

so.....