Would you like to start buying clothes online but you are concerned about the possible mistakes? In fact, there will always be some risk of not getting a right size of clothes, so you should be prepared for that. Still, several things can be done in order to minimise these risks a lot. This short shopping guide will give you a lot of useful information on online shopping for clothes.
Decide whether you really like the clothes you would like to buy
Needless to say, it is not thus easy to understand the real appearance of a piece of clothes through the screen without an opportunity to put it on. Still, this is what online shopping for clothes is about. You have to access a piece of clothes without even being able to touch it.
In order to better understand what you are shopping for, you should check the piece of clothes in all of the colours available for purchase. It might be possible that you have immediately liked a particular colour and you are going to buy it. Still, it is crucial to check all of them as it is not rare for clothes to have some elements which are not visible on the goods of a particular colour but they are absolutely noticeable on the clothes of other colours. For that reason, you should check all of the options available for a particular items so that you will not be surprised to find some elements on a newly purchased piece of clothes which you were not able to notice before.
Do not ignore videos if they are available for the piece of clothes you are interested in. Certainly, such demonstrations are rather short, however, it is enough to pick the most noticeable flows of a particular garment.
Read the reviews carefully
The majority of online shops have a possibility for leaving an opinion about a purchase and many people do it. Even though the general tendency is to leave negative comments rather than positive in case if everything is fine with the purchase, you should still pay attention to such comments. Still, you should be careful as not all of them are of any practical usage.
For example, if a thing you would like to buy is rather cheap, there is no sense in being disappointed about the comments about its poor quality. In all likelihood, the quality will be poor but this comes for a small price.
Needless to say, there is no point in treating comments about inappropriate size if a person obviously purchased a wrong one and then is writing with frustration about looking like a model on the photo.
Finally, there are many comments which are rather subjective. For instance, if someone writing that yellow colour is not enough yellow for them, you should not treat it as a negative feature of an item.
What you should really pay attention to is the comments from people who have a similar size. For instance, if you find a message from a person whose height is 170 cm telling that the sleeves are too short, this can be crucial for you in case your height is 173 cm.
Be careful not only with your sizes but also with the height of the model on a photo
One of the most common problems leading to poor choices in online fashion stores is ignoring the information about the height of the model which is actually very crucial for understanding how this particular item will look on you.
For example, if a model with a height of 180 cm wears a piece of clothes of the size XS and it still looks loose on her. It can be really large for you providing your height is twenty centimetres shorter. By the way, do not forget to check the real dimensions of your body rather than relying exclusively on the marking system used by the manufacturer of clothes. You are certainly aware of the fact the same labeling system for sizes is used in different countries where it can be assigned to slightly different body dimensions.
Sizing is always a problem. even using the changing room in a store, sizing is a hard thing to do