It's sale time!

Waltzing around Birmingham town centre, I couldn't help but notice the masses of 'SALE' signs plastered in shop windows. Being poor, this both saddened me and intrigued me. So I made it a mission to buy some clothes for under £10. Yes, £10.

I have been a huge fan of wearing brogue shoes at the moment. The pair I can't stop wearing are a Marks & Spencer's pair- that I found in a local charity shop for £10 instead of £30-£40! However, brogue shoes look good with a pair of cute little socks, or socks in general, in my opinion. I only own about 10 pairs of black socks from Asda and a few with cute patterns on but that is it... So one of my missions was to find some cute socks to wear with my brogue shoes.

The Topshop sale started yesterday, and so me and my best friend went there before anywhere else in the Bullring to have a look. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything cheap and wonderful that caught my eye so I gave up pretty quickly. I did however find some socks which were on sale for £2 instead of £4. I also discovered that I still had £2 left on my Topshop gift card that I got for my birthday so these were technically a free pair of socks and definitely helped my £10 budget and sock mission!

COS also had a sale on. I have a love/hate relationship with COS. I absolutely adore the clothes, shoes and accessories they sell but I can't afford much in there so I've never bought anything from there. Thankfully though, I found these cute pair of socks on sale from £5 to £3.50. The socks I've bought are thin like tights which I was looking for due to the sun slowly making an appearance here in the UK- sweaty feet is not pleasant in hot weather. 

You might be able to see the black panel on the heel, which I think makes these socks pretty unique and would be nice to wear with sandals where the heel is on show.

My sock mission had been fulfilled, and so me and my friend went to one of our favourite shops hidden in the back-streets of Birmingham- COW Vintage. For those of you who don't know, COW is a fashion shop that, as you may have guessed by the name, sell vintage clothes, accessories, shoes and jewellery. 

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I went in with no hopes of finding much for under my remaining budget of £6.50, but I looked anyway. A jumper suddenly caught my eye on a hanging rail:

This jumper, ladies and gentleman, was £5. I could easily see other retailers selling a jumper of this quality for much MUCH more considering the leather and suede panels (apologies to any vegetarian or vegan readers!). I'm not sure what I'm going to wear it with yet, but that's part of the excitement... isn't it?