Living in a fashion desert.
What do you do?
How do you correct for poor style due to living somewhere where nothing good is available?
I have had some luck with online e-tailers like farfetch and also attempt sewing throughout the year. I do supplement with some brick and mortar store items here.
One of the things I admired when I was in Europe as a student was the abundance of street fashion and personal style. I picked up a mint MaxMara trenchcoat and Gant long cabin coat in Copenhagen and they have hardly shown wear and tear after 18 years. I'll add photos in a comment.
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Find the fashion oases around you and stock up when you're there. I have a nearby city I go to that has good selections for new & vintage. If I'm going there anyway to get out of town or to see a concert, then the clothes shopping is a good bonus.
Live in a town, work in a city. Most the time I still buy online tbh
Most the time it's mid tier stuff, Uniqlo or secondhand with measurements
Lowers the risk
But it's alright flipping stuff if it don't work out
That's a good idea. If I go to another state i'll have choices.
ebay?
When traveling to a city, I see what brands are carried there and make a list of brands I am interested in and go to the stores and try stuff on, taking a bunch of notes about sizing so I know for future reference how that brand will fit me. Then when I find stuff secondhand online, I have the information I need in order to make an online purchase less of a risk
I shop almost 100% secondhand (mostly online these days, though I used to thrift quite regularly) and this strategy is less reliable with vintage, where in-person try-on is best and measurements are next-best, but this works well for new stuff or with brands still in existence with more data about or consistency across their products