A FASHION fan has revealed her easy trick to pick up Zara items for much cheaper – and you can get a tan while you’re at it.
Eve Fallon regularly shares her shopping hauls and outfit picks on social media (@evefallon).
In a recent clip, the 25-year-old showed off the sale purchases she snapped up on holiday.
Eve – from Scotland – is currently soaking up the sunshine in Andalusia, Spain.
While there, she hit the local mall and bagged a cute pinstriped co-ord from Pull & Bear.
She was disappointed by the prices in Mango, but then hit the jackpot in Zara after spotting a gorgeous white beaded bag in the sale.
Eve said: “I have been thinking about this bag for ages
“My friend bought it and had it and my friend’s baby shower and I was like ‘I need to get that’.
“But it’s so expensive, it’s like £50 in the Glasgow store.”
Indeed, the mini bowling bag with faux pearls will set you back £49.99 in UK stores and online.
But that’s not what Eve paid for it abroad.
“I managed to find it [on holiday].I was looking at it thinking but it is so expensive for a bag until I saw boom [sale sticker].
“It’s €25.99. I got it for €25.99”
On the current exchange rate, this works at £21.84 meaning savvy Eve managed to save £28.15.
So if there’s anything expensive you’re eyeing up from the high street store, it could be worth waiting until your next holiday to compare the price.
If this has inspired you to visit your nearest Zara, a shopper has revealed their game-changing hack for avoiding long lines – and it’s thanks to a lesser-known feature in their app.
Jess Bell, who has 123,000 followers thanks to her fashion looks, shared: “Here is how you can skip the fitting room queue every single time at Zara.
“I have been shopping at Zara for years and I don’t know how many people don’t know this app, but all you have to do is literally download a Zara app, you click store mode, you get a QR code.”
She continued: “You want to open up your Zara app, have location services on, click where you are, women’s or men’s, and there you go.
“So I’ve got one I want to try on and obviously it’s going to skip all of these people and show my QR code just like that.
“Skip the queue.
“They’ve got one ready for people on the app and I’m going to try my stuff.
“I found out about this years and years ago and I feel like more people need to be put on this.”
Zara was founded in 1975 in Spain, and the first UK store was opened in 1998. It remains as one of the most popular stores on the high street, but why?
Rather than producing more quantities of a style, it is said Zara focuses on producing more styles.
Some stats suggest Zara releases 24 trend-led collections every year, 500 designs a week and almost 20,000 per year. Other estimates put its production levels at 450 million garments a year.
Even if a style sells out very quickly, there are new styles waiting to take up the space. This means more choices and higher chance of getting it right with the consumer.
Zara only allows its designs to remain on the shop floor for three to four weeks, and this pushes the consumer to keep visiting the store or website, because if they were just a week late, the clothes of a particular style or trend would be sold out and replaced with a new trend.
At the same time, this constant refreshing of the lines and styles carried by its stores also entices customers to visit its shops more frequently.
