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Shopping Fables.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave...

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Paula Joye
Feb 29, 2024
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It goes something like this: you’re in a change room trying on a dress/top/jeans. You shrug off your clothes, wrestle into the garment and then look (with hope) into the mirror.

Ooooookaaayyy.

It’s bad. It doesn’t fit. The colour is wrong.

Your inner stylist tells you to rip it off, gurl, and run from the shop.

But you don’t. I don’t. Do we?

Instead, you …

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