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• Shop at discount outlet stores, consignment stores, and thrift shops.
• Look for generic labels; avoid expensive brand-name clothing.
• Avoid buying and wearing clothes that must be dry-cleaned.
• Try to stick with cottons and machine-washable synthetics rather than wools or silks that require dry cleaning. Check labels before you buy.
• Buy basic, buy classic. Don’t let fashion be your only guide.
• If you want the effect of a new wardrobe every year, store last year’s purchases away next year and then bring them out the year after, or go as far as rotating your clothing inventory every third year.
• Toss the magazines that pronounce this season’s look. Fashion, as defined by what people wear, changes quite slowly. Set your own standards.
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