You can’t go wrong – or can you?

 
“You can’t go wrong!”, exclaimed Lorraine Kelly on GMTV this morning, positively salivating over a white tiered dress from trash fashion outlet Primark costing just £9.  Her male stylist sidekick, who was smugly showcasing it as ‘Primarni’, naturally nodded in simpering agreement.
 
Just when we thought the media sentiment was turning – and it seems to be thus over at the [...]

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The end is nigh for trash fashion

 
Yes, the end is nigh for disposable ‘trash’ fashion. Well, it must be true if the BBC are telling us that cheap chic (an oxymoron if ever there was one) is on the way out. Have they been reading our blog, we wonder?
 
For the past decade or so, fast ‘fad’ fashion has dominated the high [...]

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Landfill Fashion: what a waste

 
We are becoming increasingly fed up of living in a society which seems hell bent on creating ever greater mountains of unnecessary waste. From plastic bags in their billions to fast food packaging, cheap promotional items that no one wants or needs, and even shrink wrap covering for supermarket  cucumbers, we are drowning in the stuff.
 
Textiles [...]

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Frockery shopping for frugal fashionistas

The credit crunch is taking its toll on household budgets everywhere as the cost of living continues to soar, with upwardly mobile mortgage payments, escalating fuel prices and public transport fares making ever greater demands on all our disposable incomes.  Meanwhile, as the credit card bills continue to roll in as regular reminders of our buy [...]

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And so that was Christmas!

The Frockery team are back to business after two days of turkey (and vegetarian alternative) consumption, but we are already planning to enter into the spirit of Hogmanay and a new year next week. In Scotland we celebrate for longer than those south of the border and so will be closed on New Year’s Day [...]

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Goodwill to all people and the planet

The Frockery firmly believes that the upcoming season of goodwill should be extended to looking after our planet as well as the people around us.
Having recently floated the idea of green stocking fillers and sustainable ’secret Santa’ gifts, we have been encouraged by the positive response of some of our eco-friendly customers, who say they do want to [...]

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Size matters

We have had lots of great customer feedback over the past few weeks (thank you all!) and are now working on a few new ideas to improve The Frockery shopping experience for the many vintage and retro clothing fans out there, as well as for those who are simply looking for pre-owned contemporary pieces that will neither break the bank nor [...]

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The Frockery Fifty Quid Fashion Challenge

The Frockery has launched its first Fifty Quid Fashion Challenge in which its website visitors are being asked to put together a stylish look for a given occasion for £50 or less.
Challengers are being invited to submit an entry to one or both of the following categories: an outfit for a office based job interview; [...]

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