The Independent - London, May 17th, 1997
Essex personnel manager Gillian Harris buys a new jacket and skirt every month, spending up to pounds 100. There are currently 15 jackets in her wardrobe, but when they reach their second birthday, they are thrown out and she replaces them. She can't bear to work out how much she spends on clothes in a year. A certain female newspaper editor had so many clothes crammed into her fitted wardrobe, the units collapsed under the weight of excess Versace. She moved to a bigger house with more wardrobes.
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