clothing. take a few minutes and write down what your favorite outfit is
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Clothing
Clothing
• Take a few minutes and write down what your favorite outfit is.
Clothing Influence
• Manufacturers try to predict what you will want to buy
• They try to predict what is popular
• Entertainers and Stars
• Certain brands can become status symbols
Clothing Influence
• Teens generally have more freedom than adults to dress they want.
• Workplaces tend to have dress codes whether they are implied or explicitly in a handbook or rulebook
Wearing Your Clothes
• Generally, people wear only about 20% of their clothes on a regular basis
• Most clothing choices are made spur-of-the-moment.
Your Wardrobe
• To help you decide when/what to buy you need to split the clothes you do have into 4 groups.
• Group 1 - Close you wear often.
• Group 2 - Close you wear occasionally.
• What keeps you from wearing it more?
• Could you add to it to wear it more?
Your Wardrobe
• Group 2
• Move clothes you want to keep into group 1
• Move clothes that do not fit or do not want into group 4.
• Group 3 - Clothes that need attention
• Ripped? Fit?
• Do like group 2, and make decisions.
Your Wardrobe
• Group 4 - Clothes that you have not worn for more than a year or no longer want.
• First, double check to make sure there isn’t something you want to keep
Discarding
• Charity?
• Donation?
• Hand-me-down?
Before Buying
• Decide what you need for your life
• Do you already have it?
• Can you make it happen?
Before Buying
• After finding what you need, put it in a list
• Make a list of the clothes you want to have
• Find out how much you have to budget for you new clothes
Making Choices
• Just like with groceries
• Compare quality
• Not Unit Cost, but Cost per Wearing
What about you?
• What dictates what you buy currently?
• What dictates where you buy your clothes?
Where to buy?
• Department Stores - More clothes are sold here than anywhere else.
• Typically offer all variety of ages, styles, prices
• Rely on reputation and service to keep people coming back
Where to Buy?
• Specialty Stores - Cater to very specific buyers.
• “Tall men”
• “Petites”
• Boutiques - Specialty stores for fashionable clothes.
Where to Buy?
• Discount Stores - Sell clothes for much less
• May have less quality
• Less service
• Factory Outlets - Sell a manufacturer’s overruns
• Discount prices
Where to Buy?
• Online/Mail Order - using the internet to order clothes to be shipped to your home.
• Can be cheaper, but you do have to take into account for shipping and handling
Return Policies
• Not all stores allow returns
• Some may offer a credit slip
• like a gift certificate
• only used in the store
• Many times you must have a receipt
Questions:
• Where do you think much of our clothing is made?
• What affects does that have?
• Cost?
• Economy?
• Jobs?
Questions:
• Have you ever walked into a store because you noticed an ad for reduced prices only to buy more than just that item?
Questions:
• What factors should affect your buying decisions the most?
• What actually affect your decisions the most?