1.1 How To Shop When You Just Want To Stop

By Author: Barton Loi
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Shopping is not fun for everyone. Sex and the City has a lot to answer for with regard to the propagation of shopping as leisure activity ? for many of us it can simply be a bit of a pain. Here''s a quick guide to taking some of the stress out of buying a dress.

Many for whom shop is a four letter word have several different reasons why they don''t like the process. It can be hard to know which sorts of clothes will suit your body shape, and difficult to integrate such knowledge - if you are aware of what works for you - with the prevailing fashion.

Successful shopping must start with you ? and an honest familiarity with your body shape. From slim to hourglass, different figures will be best enhanced by certain styles of dress.

This means that for most of us, not all styles will work so well. On the positive side, this also means that there is an option for practically everyone ? there is a world of different styles out there. Get an idea of the range of women''s dresses and other clothes available at the moment on sites like New Look which feature pictures of different products.

Once you have ...
... a firm grip on your figure type, break your search down into categories that match your lifestyle, like work and leisure, or round-the-house and going out.

Draw up a prioritised list, and try not to get sidetracked when window shopping. Probably equally important is making clothes shopping a semi-regular activity. This may seem like counter-intuitive advice if you don''t subscribe to ''retail'' as ''therapy''; but if you try to dodge the task, and save it all up for a mammoth annual shop, you are surley constructing an full-on stress-test for yourself.

Part and parcel of this plan is to leave yourself enough time to pause to consider when you are on your retail mission ? again, if you try to do too much, because you are in a rush, you are never going to enjoy the process.

Finally, if possible, hit the shops at a quiet time ? ideally mid week. Either that, or shop online; and remove a significant aspect of the stress ? the shops ? from the equation.

#Pen Name# is a fashion writer. For more information on some of the advice detailed above, take a look at the women''s dresses section of New Look. Barton Loi is a fashion critic and writer. To find out more about the latest high street trends check out New Look's website for an impressive range of