How do you shop for clothing on a budget?
I spill some of my secrets here.
While we have not turned into a fashion blog, Princess Power is about how to live larger on less, how to improve your life, have more money, do more, look better, and feel better so we touch on issues of finances, budget, relationships, health, travel, how to have your own business and all kinds of things that affect your life.
Not only did I get tons of compliments on my outfit this weekend, my friend Marisa Kenson, a fashion designer of 30 years, commented to me for the second time that I needed to have my own blog.Well obviously she doesn’t know about you, and all of the time that we spend together every week. But in honor of that comment I decided to show you this outfit and talk about how I pulled it together.
First of all I’ve had all but three of the pieces for over 10 years. I talk a lot about the fact that a penny pinching princess acquires things over time and keep them for a long time.
Originally this blog was going to be called Penny Pinching Princess and I do have that name trademarked, but I changed it to Princess Power because we are about so much more than just saving money and I didn’t want to limit the message.
For those of you that aren’t familiar with my background yet, I’ll tell you that I was a stay-at-home mom for 22 years living on an extremely tight budget and when that portion of my life ended and I went into the workforce, within just a couple of years I was able to build a multimillion-dollar business from scratch.
So how does a millionaire dress?
Well if we’re talking about this girl, sometimes it’s still in the thrift store clothes that she bought years ago.
I paid $5.99 for this dress at the Goodwill. I bought the shoes for $8.99 at Ross and because I like them so much I bought 3 different colors and still have all 3. One pair of the earrings is from Forever 21 and the other was from Target for $9.99. And I just bought the bracelet at Old Navy for $10. The purse was under $10 at Target. And I have the Sharpie in the picture because I want to admit that I blackened the tips of the toes on the shoes before I took the picture.
Obviously you can’t run out and get this look today except for the bracelet at Old Navy.
But as always, I love to inspire you about the possibilities of life and that you shouldn’t be embarrassed to shop at a thrift store or buy cheap jewelry.
If anybody looks at me and thinks negatively about how I dress, fortunately they keep their mouth shut. Instead, people stop me on the street and give me compliments.
So thanks to my friend the fashion designer, from time to time I’ll share some of my outfits with you.
The reason I showed two pair of earrings with this outfit, is that I wore that outfit 2 days in a row, Saturday night to a dance, and then again Sunday morning and I switched out the earrings.
Honestly, and just between you and me, so don’t tell anybody… I would have worn the outfit to work on Monday too because I have 3 completely different audiences of people on Saturday, Sunday and Monday but this one’s just a little too dressy to pull that off even if I switched out my purse and shoes.
I didn’t have anybody to take a full-length picture of me so this selfie is the best that I could get and then the flat lay pictures.
Rather than spending your money at Macy’s and Nordstrom, consider some of my favorite places to shop for clothing on a budget below:
Forever 21 is great for costume jewelry
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