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Sample Closet, Your New Wardrobe!
By admins | December 29, 2008
(Fashion Flashback – Originally Posted 9/22)
With a tight economy, everyone must pinch their pennies when it comes to filling their closets, even you! So how can you get more bang for your buck? Well, how about a wardrobe full of freebies, better known as the sample closet. One of the best perks of working in fashion is the fabulous free clothes, right? This is part true and part myth depending on whom you ask. The sample closet is a great resource (if of course you are the sample size) full of your company’s samples, your competition’s goods, reference samples, and worldwide shop trip goodies. Once the design team, tech dept, and sales division are finished using them, samples should be up for grabs. However, the truth of the matter is, design directors and senior designers usually get first dibs on the best stuff before anybody else gets a chance. So while it’s the interns and assistants who do most of the running around, shopping and returning, photographing and hanging, and are the most financially needy, they often lose out. Now, with companies feeling the budget crunch shopping budgets are being cut back and many are no longer expensing samples, so that closet is looking more barren than ever. Our best advice to you; keep an eye on what you want (maybe keep it at your desk for umm spec checking?) or mention a specific item to your boss (she may be more generous than you anticipated) or if necessary swift-tac your card to the sample. If nothing else keep in mind that one day it will be you who gets first pick. So good luck and happy shopping!!
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