I am in a very abusive relationship at the moment. With Zara.
This is not a new thing! There have been times in my life when I’m not even allowed to go in, or look at the app, because it’s a time-suck it makes me buy things that I don’t need and I am unwell with it. You know the drill.
And for a long time - for years - I looked at Zara and thought, “This place used to be fun. Now it’s a polyester binfire.” Staying the hell away from it was easy.
But at the moment I can’t make it stop. I have been in to a Zara probably twice in the last month, which is a lot for me and when I’m not in the shop I’m on the app. Because they’re nailing it.
Walking in at the moment feels like the designing team had a big picture of me on the wall when they were dreaming up their AW22 collection, I go in and I’m like a vampire in a nightclub surrounded by very hot, drunk ladies and I can hear their pulse in my ears and my pulse in my ears and it’s all too much and I’m starting to drool….
I have got an earlier iteration of this sweater and although it’s from the kids section a size 13-14 is pretty generous and I wear it all the time.
I saw my friend Rebecca wearing a khaki waxed rain cape in 2013 and have been looking for one ever since. I would buy this if it wasn’t one size, which is M and a bit big for me. Or maybe I will buy it anyway, even though I’m not sure it’s even waterproof and I strongly suspect one more coat purchase and my husband will leave me. *adds to basket*
These parachute trousers fulfil all my thwarted All Saints 1994 ambitions.
I’m sorry but how cute would your 11yo look in these sparkly trousers at New Year with a black t-shirt and something in her hair?
Semi-sheer, unlined, itchy AF blouse? Sign me up! Because I’m in Zara and I’ve lost my mind! The answer to the visible bra issue is, of course, this waistcoat. The itching I can’t help with - perhaps some wetsuit silicon anti-chafe gel over entire torso? Small price to pay.
A velvet dress is the answer to Christmas parties, particularly any that . Okay, this looks like you’re on your way to a séance in 1912, but I think in a good way.
Amazing how hard it is to buy a basic sleeveless unisex puffer jacket for multi-kid use, until Zara comes along and saves the day…
Also got this for Sam, who needs a non school-uniform jacket that isn’t some sort of babyish Boden monstrosity, but also isn’t a sinister too-grown-up navy peacoat either.
This for your alt girlchild who doesn’t want to be smart for Christmas Day, but we must not insult granny by showing up in a hoodie.
These cord baggies and blue shirt on Christmas Day for your rumbunctious boychild who has no clothes other than joggers.
I didn’t buy all of this, you understand. I have just been perving over it. I mostly know that Zara clothes are often cheap and badly-made and end up in charity shops still with the tags on, but they wheedle into my mind and say dirty things, like that saucy Yasmin out of Industry.
How about you? Are you in an abusive relationship with a high street chain at the moment? Please leave a comment in the handy box below.
Did you ever solve your relationship problems with Zara or did you just send her over to torment me here in the future?
Did everyone else apart from me know that Zara has a reselling site??
https://resell.zara.com/collections/woman-new-in