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Passionforfashion

Bargain buys on the web

WEBSITE REVIEW

By KATE HUMPHRIS

HOW far can you stretch$100?

It’s a challenge many ofus are taking up, now our‘‘little Aussie battler’’ ishovering around paritywith the US dollar.

But it’s not only theStates where our dollarbuys you a whole lot more.

Suddenly the UK has be-come affordable.

And if you don’t havetime to get on a 20-hourflight — jump online tobrowse some of the UK’sbest fashion.

One of the most compre-hensive sites is asos.com

Initially set up as a placeyou could buy cheap rep-licas of clothes ‘‘As SeenOn Screen’’, ASOS is nowthe place to buy everythingfrom kids’ gum boots to adesigner shirt or sparklystilettoes.

Clothes start from lessthan AUD$5, with deliveryto Australia around $17.

So it makes a lot of senseto buy up!

The store offers a cus-tomer contact page, andpromises to try and getback to all questions with-in an hour.

There’s also fashion ad-vice, style blogs, and aquirky page which collectstweets of a lot of famous‘‘fashionable’’ people.

www.asos.com