Summer 2021 Sale Buys
Now I LOVE sale time! Christmas sale, Summer sale, Midseason sale I ain’t picky haha. Although I like to spend all year round, sale time is when I make my major purchases and I get PRETTY excited for them! I am not by any means a cheap-skate but I just can’t see the point in spending double the amount for something you know will go into the sale a month later……… and the tat I usually want jumps straight into the sale LOL. I think even if I had all the money in the world I would still wait for the sale as it means you can get double the amount of stuff. Throughout the whole year, I visit ASOS pretty much every day and search through the new lines and add them to my wishlist. My wishlist can get preeeeeetty BIG waiting for either the sale or the many-a-year 20% off events. Searching for items you like throughout the year is a good way to get a better item from sites that stock the brands and products you like. I tend to sign up to the site’s mailing list and most of the time you will get an email notification telling you when the sale goes live and SOME sites even give you VIP access to the sale wich is the best way to guarantee you bag the items you want before anybody else!
Last year was one of the best years (since 2014) for Moschino collections in my opinion. Spring/Summer 2020 was the Halloween collection and Autumn/Winter was the Subway oversized collection which I loved, and I could have happily spent a small fortune on each of them. In the Christmas sale, I was torn over the oversized neoprene Sunvisor crossbody bag and the black leather cap crossbody bag. Just because I was buying the oversized tracksuit top I went for the SLIGHTLY cheaper Sunvisor bag and as soon as I pressed the order confirmation button I instantly thought “will I regret the decision?” Although I say regret I mean it in jest, it isn’t a life-changing decision but my life is full of purchase regrets LOL. At least once a week I like to search through the YOOX website as they somehow manage to get some of the most iconic pieces from past collections and in July I managed to find the black and the blue versions of this cap bag. I instantly added it to my Dreambox (what YOOX call a wishlist) and 2 weeks later I got a notification saying some items had either 15, 20, 25 or 30% off. Usually, the newer items on YOOX aren’t included in the promotions but much to my surprise both the black and blue cap bag had 30% off. I quickly added the black bag to my basket because with the 30% discount the bag was reduced from £495 to £333. I didn’t go for the blue version as I have the sun visor bag in the same blue and I actually do not own many plain black bags. The delivery from YOOX does usually take around a week and when the bag arrived I was a little underwhelmed by it. The bag was a dream and I loved it but it looked really sorry just thrown in a box and the longer crossbody strap wasn’t in the best of conditions. I emailed YOOX customer services and sent them a picture of the buckle and when they got back to me they offered to refund 15% of the cost, so I got another £50 off the bag. I was really happy with the outcome and had managed to whittle down the price to almost 50% of the original £495 and a fraction of the £850 price before they went into the sale.
As I mentioned earlier ASOS is my usual go-to site for clothes shopping. During my many visits, I found this red and white striped oversized dad shirt in the sale for £8.80. I thought it would be amazing for throwing on for work in the warmer summer months, and because the wonderful people at ASOS love to have 20% off events I got it for £7; you really cannot complain. They did the same shirt in lilac and mint green……………. so I naturally snapped those up too. The fit of this shirt is perfect in my eyes. The dropped shoulder is extremely flattering and added with the oversized fit just ticks all the boxes for me. It looks great just thrown on, buttoned up and left untucked and also tucked into a pair of high waisted jeans. These black high waisted chino shorts were also an ASOS sale bargain. They were reduced from £20 to £13. Pair that up with a 20% off event and you’ve got yourself a super bargain LOL. I am currently obsessed with high waisted trouser options at the moment and I had noticed that I did not have any high waisted shorts.
There are two designer brands that really hold my interest; Moschino and Versace. I love the fun and pop culture references from Moschino and the excessive glamour of Versace. This year, Versace was one of the first summer sales that went live and I found these socks for £30 in it. These socks were from the Spring/Summer 2021 collection and the way they were styled on the runway reeeeally sparked my interest. On their website, the socks seemed like they were green and gold however when they arrived they were definitely more orange than gold, luckily I’m not shy about colour so this really didn’t put me off. These socks really are the most comfortable socks I have ever owned. There are incredibly soft on the old feet but on the downside they bobble like a devil even after wearing them for a few minutes. It is a small price to pay for such a lush pair of socks though!
I have been watching these Converse trainer’s for near enough a year now. I saw this style on a friend last year in the black and white colourway, and I fell in love with them! Apparently, they were a big deal when they were released and most places had sold out on most sites. I did manage to find them on the Offspring website but at full price, they were £140. I kept an eye on them over the year and, for some reason, the orange versions wouldn’t go into the sale. I got a text from the same friend that I first saw these trainers on, of a photo of the orange versions for sale in Selfridges for £70. I quickly dropped what I was doing, grabbed my MacBook and dived straight onto the Offspring site. To my joy, there they were, the Orange Converse X Feng Chen Wang trainers in the sale for £70 (apparently Offspring supplies Selfridges with their trainers which I didn’t know). I popped them straight into my basket and 2 days later they were delivered to my local Office store free of charge. The first thing I noticed with these trainers was their weight. My feet seem to be very sensitive to most footwear options but luckily these aren’t THAT uncomfortable even after a full shift at work LOL. I am usually not a huge fan of Converse unless they have something about them, like the platform souled Allstars and these beauties. If I could change one thing about these trainers it would be the natural colour of the canvas, I would have preferred them to be white but I suppose this colour will make them seem a little cleaner than the stark white versions.
I found the charm on this necklace on the Tatty Devine website. Years ago I used to be obsessed with this brand but in recent years I felt like it had slightly lost its way. When I saw this charm it was in the sale for £9 and thought I have to have it. It did come on a Tatty Devine thin golden chain which was the only thing I wasn’t keen on. I managed to find this chunkier necklace for £3 from Boohoo. It was an easy fix swapping the chains and I feel like it packs a bigger punch and helps show the charm off. The necklace gives me Kylie Aphrodite Les Folies tour vibes which are all I can ask for LOL.
Sunglasses and T-shirt - New Look
Sunglasses Chain - Boohoo
Necklace - Boohoo and Tatty Devine
Shirt and Shorts - ASOS
Bag - Moschino - YOOX
Bracelets - eBay
Socks - Versace
Trainers - Converse X Feng Chen Wang - Offspring