Why Buying Cheap Clothes Is The Worst Choice

For women, there’s no other greater joy in the world than shopping. In addition, if there’s a sale on nearby, that joy knows no bounds. Picking up a dress that looks expensive from the outside at just half its actual price – now that’s what you call intelligent shopping, isn’t it? And if you get two or three more such dresses, you’re set for the entire month. Your wardrobe is complete with cheap but rich-looking dresses, your pocket is happy, and your mind on the seventh heaven.

Well, before you celebrate having done intelligent shopping at the sale, we have some fun facts for you which might make you stop and think as to why buying cheap clothes is the worst choice.

1. Low on pocket at first; high on maintenance forever

Quality speaks for itself. Cheap clothes use very low or poor quality fabric which starts showing its true colours after the first few washes itself, sometimes even after just the first wash. The colours start fading off, the threads start pulling out, or the cloth shrinks beyond the acceptable limit, resulting in the dress becoming either tight or short for you and completely un-wearable after a while. Even if you do choose to keep them, you might have to spend more on their maintenance – getting alterations done, stitching the torn parts, or using chemicals to restore the colour and prevent further fading. This might be much more than the actual cost of the dress itself.

2. Bad for your image

You are what you wear. First impression is the last impression. These phrases all go on to prove that the type of clothes we wear speak a lot about our personality to others. As against high-quality branded dress, cheap clothes lack that perfect cut, symmetry, and most importantly, elegance to make you feel rich and good in what you are wearing. And because they are low-quality too, it starts reflecting in the fabric after a few days, all in all, making you feel that buying cheap clothes wasn’t a great idea after all.

3. Quality gone for a toss, you end up spending more

Fast fashion may seem to be the in-thing with almost everyone around following it, but it’s not a very healthy trend. It may seem at first that buying cheap clothes is a wise decision, since we can use and dump them every few months to try out newer and rapidly-changing fashions in the market.

However cool the idea might sound, the fact is that cheap-priced and cheap-quality clothes don’t last very long, with the result that you would actually have to spend a lot more money throughout the year in buying more clothes to replace the ones that you bought but had to discard owing to cheap quality. Now does that sound wise?

4. Bad for the environment

This is perhaps the most important argument against buying cheap clothes regularly and might prevent you from doing so. Now fast fashion might be popular but it can have some serious consequences for the environment, what with people across the world dumping tons of clothes every year in landfills to keep pace with the changing fashion.

The solution: make your shopping thoughtful and worthwhile. Buy clothes which might require a higher spend but are sure to benefit you in the long run with good quality and low-cost maintenance. And when you look good at the end of the day, you will literally thank your clothes!