Where To Find This Season’s Must Haves For Less
[Images: Getty & REX]
If your budget for new season staples is more £50 (at a push) than £500, must you relinquish your dreams of stepping out in stepped hem jeans, leather wrap skirts and shoes that not only fit, but look, like gloves? Of course not. Watch, as designer lust-haves become high-street must-haves before your very eyes…
The Leather Wrap Skirt
[Image: REX / Get the Look: Marks & Spencer]
Louise Roe has been championing this year’s ‘it’ skirt for M&S - and it is a great investment. You’ll be wearing it right through from May to December, with everything from trainers and tees to knee-highs and sweaters. But if you’re in the market for an even cannier investment? Take a look at their £35 faux leather version… spot the difference?
The Glove Shoe
[Image: REX / Get the Look: Stradivarius]
If you haven’t discovered Stradivarius yet, you’re in for a treat. Zara’s little sister brand has pretty much all your trend bases covered, and all at ‘is that a typo?’ prices.
If you’re after a pretty-yet-practical pump to see you safely from work to weekend, wine bar to wedding reception, but refuse to drop £500+ on any garment with an elasticated hem, click on through.
The Backless Loafer
[Image: Getty / Get the Look: New Look]
Gucci’s backless mules have been enabling deep-pocketed street stylers to side-step that pesky new shoes = blistered ankles conundrum for a while now. The high street has taken a while to catch up, but homages are now rolling in apace. At under £25, New Look’s is the most affordable yet. They’re set to sell out, but keep your eyes peeled (and fingers at the ready) for their return…
The Step-Hem Jean
[Image: Getty / Get the Look: River Island]
You may not have been sold on the £185 DHL T-shirt, but Vetements’ raw edge, step hem jeans are another story altogether. Save some pennies by having a DHL (OK, Yodel) courier of your very own deliver these River Island beauts directly to your door.
The Flatform Shoe
[Image: Getty / Get the Look: Mango]
Stella McCartney’s platform flats will not only have you standing head and shoulders above the crowd, but feeling 600 pounds lighter (in the wallet department). Keep hold of (most of) your cash and mosey over to Mango…
The Embroidered Denim
[Image: Getty / Get the Look: Glamorous]
If they’re not cropped, raw-edged and/or step-hemmed, there’s only one way to wear your jeans this summer. Say it with flowers - and Glamorous’ purse-friendly homage to Gucci’s embroidered wonders.
The Frilled Blouse
[Image: REX / Get the Look: ASOS]
Striped ruffle-yoked blouses selling out before you can say ‘Little House on the Prairie’? Snap up this double-duty ASOS shirt dress, quick. When you can rock it solo with clean kicks (whilst you get your own weekend kicks) or tuck it into your leather wrap-skirt for the office, just think of the cost-per-wear…
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