I think I spend maybe about $8000 a year on clothes, and of that 70% will be on shoes. I love a good bargain and will wear a $10 skirt with a $150 blouse without blinking. I have gone to parties where my whole outfit combined cost less than my shoes (and my shoes were $70).
I own four or five relatively expensive suits but now I'm on a client site long term, I dress down more. Suits are supposed to be mandatory at all client sites but I've been at mine almost a year and really they're more concerned about how I work than what I wear now, so the on-going cost of my corporate clothes have lessened.
I spend approximately 0.3% of our income on my clothing, or 16% of one weeks pay.
I am a stay at home mum i.e. I go nowhere so I don't really need anything flash. My favourite jersey is 8 years old and the zip doesn't work but I still wear it.
I dread to think how much I spend on clothes and shoes for the girls. All I know is its hideous. I spend next to nothing on DH and me. His idea of getting dressed up is a clean pair of tracky dacks (he works from home so no decent clothes required), and I live in the same jeans and shirts given I'm a stay at home mum. We don't have a glitzy social life that requires dressing up so for me personally I would estimate less than 1%. When I was working I would spend a fortune on clothes, shoes, jewellery and my biggest weakness - matching underwear. I'd say maybe 15%.
When I get a job, I have a clothes and shoes wishlist for back to work, to top up my wardrobe. £175. Including a new suit.
That will probably take me up to £500 for the year on clothes, underwear, jewellery, shoes and bags. I buy clothes that last years. I still have stuff in my wardrobe that I bought before DH and I married - and still wear it.
I have no income at the moment so cannot calculate a percentage. But it is about 2% of my expected pre-tax income, when I do get a job.
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