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It’s always a highly anticipated time of year when the early months of midsummer roll around. Sale season commences in our favourite shops and online stores. We look forward to grabbing a bargain or finally purchasing those items we’ve had our eye on for many months. At the same time though, it’s confusing. When the...
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It has been said on more than one occasion that I shop, a lot. Rarely does a day go by without one parcel or another getting delivered, to the point where I actually managed to break my own letterbox through such brutal overuse. My fervent shopping addiction has even become an ongoing joke around the...
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As a single woman, my loathing of Valentines Day is more often than not put down to my significant lack of a significant other to share said romantic day with. But contrary to this belief my avid dislike of the pimped up, sugar coated commercial holiday is in fact a lot more deep rooted than...
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Over the Christmas period, spending 24/7 with family can be hard. As a break, I often checked my Newsfeeds on Instagram and Twitter to find people uploading pictures of their new Cartier Love Bracelets and Louboutins from their partners; and I find myself asking, ‘Why isn’t this me?’. We should be grateful for what we...
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Sophie Maguire asks “Is it incessant greed, pride or just plain consumer brainwashing that has us spending money we just realistically don’t have?”  Nowadays Father Christmas is quite possibly a sexual deviant, carolers are hooded yobs looking to make a quick buck, toy stores are crowded and overflowing with spoilt children and our time-honoured Christmas...
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Where would we be without Topshop? Well in my case, having spent most of my mid-to-late teens in their local store instead of in my A-level classes, probably somewhere with much better qualifications. Distractions and procrastinations aside, Topshop is, for most girls, our first introduction to “grown up” fashion. Topshop is the cool girl from the...
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