10 Tips for online clothes shopping

With the pace at which the human world and all of its components are moving forward and ever-evolving, our lives are becoming more and more of a “rat race” with each passing year. Having said that, not all is as macabre as it sounds as there have been, are, and will continue to be small beacons of light and hope that come along to ease the monotony that has become our lives. One such beacon of light and hope seems, for the most part, to be online shopping, and in particular online clothes shopping. So whether you are shopping around for a girl’s christmas jumper, Paul James Knitwear jumpers or even fashionable expensive clothes there are ten tips for online clothes shopping that will hopefully ensure that your online shopping experience is the best and safest it could possibly be.

The 10 tips for online clothes shopping

The following tips are a collated collection of ten of the most common tips for potentially ensuring not only a safe online clothes shopping experience but also a pleasurable one. 

1. Do your research and only use reputable retailers. 

2). Know your style. When know which styles, types and cuts of clothing you do and do not like, it streamlines the process when it comes to online clothes shopping. 

3. Know your measurements. When you know your body’s measurements, it makes it much easier to know what sizes will fit your body comfortably and which will be too small. Measurements to know include neck and chest/ bust circumference, waist and hips circumference, Front and back waist length, the length between your shoulder and where you want the shirt to end, shoulder width, arm and wrist circumference, thigh circumference and last but not least, inseam length. 

4. Check the size charts. As many clothing retailers’ sizes for the same items of clothing differ significantly between them, checking the size charts is an important step that will ensure that the item of clothing you purchase will fit correctly. 

5. Research the materials. Researching the materials of an item of clothing will enable you to potentially predict how the item of clothing will stretch, shrink and overall feel against the skin. Additionally, this will also predict how durable the material of the item of clothing is. 

6. Read the reviews. Reading the reviews of other customers of a particular online clothing retailer will aid you in deciding whether it is worth it or not to purchase from the said retailer. 

7. Be flexible. When online shopping, you need to know that a vast majority of the time, an item’s colour, tint and hue may vary slightly from the image on the retailer’s website. 

8. Edit your cart. Before checking out and paying, it would be advisable to pause momentarily and review the items in your cart, considering which ones were impulse purchases, which ones you can afford and which ones you would actually wear. 

9) Check and be aware of the returns policy. 

10. Double Check shipping details. There is nothing worse than purchasing an item only to never receive it because the shipping details were incorrect.

Just to be crystal clear

It is important to note that whilst the previously mentioned ten tips for online clothes shopping are designed to aid in the process of online clothes shopping so as to make it as safe and pleasurable an experience as possible, there are many points along the process where unpredictableness and errors, both human and mechanical, can sour the experience after the initial steps that take place in front of the computer.