Shopping

If you are not a bargain loving thrifter, get to be! What is not to love about charity shop shopping?! Charity shops are filled with one-off items and lots of original vintage clothing. These days it is so easy to look the same as everyone else; when a new...

Celebrating its one year anniversary on the 2nd December, I found myself spending my Sunday night visiting Foodprint, a social enterprise run by Enactus at the University of Nottingham with the aim to fight food waste by selling edible products for cheaper prices to students and members of the...

Black Friday weekend is undoubtedly a huge part of the entire pre-Christmas seasonal experience. So here are the best online clothing stores for you to shop until you drop this weekend. ASOS ASOS provides an offer of 20% off everything for the entire Black Friday weekend. The “new in”...

Being an adult is hard enough as it is, and food shopping can be one of the serious challenges to get the hang of. Fitting everything in your basket, using actual maths to figure out if your mum would consider that can of beans to be a bargain, and...

Recently it was announced that design powerhouse Gucci were going to tighten their lawsuit on the American fast-fashion chain, Forever 21. The latest in the onslaught of claims from Gucci is that Forever 21 have copied their trademark ‘blue-red-blue’ and ‘green-red-green’ stripe cuffs and webbing. As your style editor...

It’s a known fact of university life that keeping your wardrobe fresh can be a bit hard on the ol’ purse-strings. One excellent source of clothes that are both cheap and of good quality, but doesn’t seem to be taken advantage of, are charity shops! I am a serial...

As a generation that now holds the greatest influence in consumer spending and employment, are the shopping habits of the millennials transforming the outlook of the retail industry? Overall, the retail industry has been consistently growing for the past 20 years; however, most recently the sales of clothing, footwear...