Plan of Attack

Here are a few sale shopping tips to remember as you bring-in-the-Spring.

Less than 40 percent of all clothing is sold at full price. Some stores mark up so they can mark down.

Teri says the life expectancy for full-price clothes is about nine weeks, but only pull the trigger if it's a hot fashion item. Stores have gotten wiser and don't make the huge batches of the same trendy clothes. Fashion "mistakes" — bad ideas in the first place — are the first to go on sale and those are often the best deals — as much as 80 percent off! Another secret — some stores even create items that immediately go on sale at 50 percent off.

Beware: What you may not know is that items that were made to sell at 50 percent off are usually lower quality.

Source: Teri Agins author of The End of Fashion and a twelve veteran Fashion Editor for the Wall Street Journal.

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posted - beth / 6:06 AM / 02.07.06