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No one can deny that fashion has a impact on our lives. Who hasn't felt like a poor cousin beside a beautifully dressed, stylish woman. Knowing that you look good can give you a lot of extra confidence.

Fashion changes from year to year but not so drastically as you think. To follow the fashion trends and make yourself look like a fashionista is a lot cheaper and easier than you would think.

Here are 5 cheap ways to dress in the latest styles with out breaking the bank. 

Much to our amusement the Perrier bottle we had in there was a perfect fit.

It adds a certain amount of class to the laundry room and I can't wait for my sister's reaction when she spies it in there.

Bottle sizes over the last several years have tended to be more uniform and it is now quite easy to exchange the top from one bottle to another. 

Why would you want to do this?

A lot of these clothes came from either the sporting life where they were design for comfort and practical or from trades and professions that had these clothes tweaked until they were perfect. 

While they will sometimes storm the fashion runways with weird twists and novel colors there basic designs are so practical that they will never change. When should you invest in these classics? 

It's an natural deodorizer and for centuries good housekeepers knew that if some was kept by wool items it would keep the moths away from them.

There is much less damage done to wool now a days because we wear less wool and we now know that it must be stored away laundered as it is the stains on wool clothes that attracts the moths. But still we love the smell of cedar and use it in our closets. Buy it from a specialty shop and it can be pricey... but there is a better way to get your cedar for your closet.

It's not the amount of clothes that I covet, it's how everything is so amazingly organized!

Organizers can be extraordinarily expensive especially if you have them custom made and while I love the idea of being uber organized I am not willing to pay oodles of money for it.

I designed this organized to be made out of 4 sheets of Bristol board costing $2 plus tax. It does take a little bit of time to make but I think the effort is worth it. With the basics of how it's made you can customize one to fit your own space.

You own this great gold colored necklace that looks so spectacular that you had to have it, but every time you wear it some one stares at it and comments, "That's not real, is it." 

Nylons can be one of those frustrating items of women's apparel because to look really pulled together in a skirt or dress you really need to wear a pair. But that pair of nylons might only last one wearing if they get caught on something that makes them run.

There is a way to genuinely make your nylons last longer but you have to do it and not just think about it. 

Silver jewelry once was just thought to be the poor cousin of gold but now many women prefer the sophistication of silver to the showiness of gold jewelry. 

You have been building your wardrobe and you have a plan and now are trying to figure out where you should be spending your wardrobe budget. 

While every woman should have the simple things that will give her style you are ready to move up the next level. What should you be looking for next? 

Here are 7 great items that are a must in your wardrobe. They are not cheap but it you are careful and smart you will be able to spot them at sales and know to snap them up. 

Put them on your list and keep your eyes open for them.

The best part is that shoe clips are surprisingly easy and inexpensive to make. Shoe clips were once the norm for fashionable but frugal Victorians that would have several different types for various occasions. 

You might have seen shoe clips at vintage dress shops where the small jeweled ones are often mistaken for earrings.

For most people their  first exposure to shoe clips often happens when they are involved with a wedding were they are used as an inexpensive way to dress up a pair of shoes or to bring uniformity to a group of bridesmaids shoes that are not exactly the same.

My winter coats and jackets get well used and by this time of the season can start to look shabby and dirty if I don't take care of them. Take a look at your own outerwear and see if you have to do a mid season clean up on them. It is usually the collars, cuffs and areas around the pockets and button holes that can get quite soiled. You might find that you can just have to do a spot cleaning to make everything look fresh and new again but in my case with my ski jacket it had to go into the wash. 

  

Badly fitted clothes can make even expensive clothes look cheap while well tailored clothes can make inexpensive clothes look great. 

For the first time in history since women have started to clothe themselves we are not making our own clothing to fit our bodies or paying someone else to do it for us. While mass produced clothes have saved us from countless hours in front of a sewing machine it also means that many women have no idea of how clothes are constructed and how to alter them. It is a rare woman that can fit perfectly into off the rack clothes through out her whole life. For many women they blame the shape of their bodies instead of the shape of the clothes.   

Women now try to change their bodies to suit their clothes and not their clothes to suit their bodies. So what can you, and can't you,alter when you buy clothes? What can you do at home, what should you have a professional do and when should you not even bother.

 You have the basics (read Building a Perfect Wardrobe on a Budget) but now you want to add some style.  What should you be spending your meager amounts of money on? 

There are some tried and true things that we should all make the effort to spend some time and money on if we want to look like a woman of style. 

Luckily for us these things are relatively easy to get and can be quite inexpensive, which pleases our frugal fashion souls to no end.

But lets be more specific, nothing to wear that is not ripped, soiled, faded, stretched out, too tight, wrong colour,  inappropriate, waaaayyy out of fashion or just horrible looking. 

And while she keeps spending money on clothes she never seems satisfied with what she gets. So what's a girl going to do? 

There is a way to build yourself a perfect wardrobe on a budget, but it does take time and it does take effort. 

But the reward is that you will be able to go to your closet and KNOW that there are clothes in there that you love, look fabulous on you and cost a lot less than anyone would have guessed.

You will see people on the street with ratty pant hems, buttons falling off, dirty overcoats and wrinkly clothes (and these are the adults).

 You can't blame teenagers for looking like a mess if that's how their parents look when leaving the house. 

You spend good money on clothes so make sure that they continue to look good every time you wear them. Your clothes don't have to cost a million for you to look like a million.