This year the number of people shopping online during the festive period is set to rise again this year. We are also just over a week away from what has come to be known amongst online retailers as ‘Cyber Monday’. This is traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year, Amazon are hiring extra staff and opening new warehouses to deal with the increase in demand.

Christmas Shopping

 

We were having a think about this at Cheap Clothes Rule – what are the reasons behind this continual increase in online activity whilst the High Street continues to dip? Is it down to improvments in the online shopping experience? or are Christmas shoppers getting fed up with the barrage of Christmas related activity from October onwards? We would welcome your thoughts…..

In the meantime, fill out our exciting Christmas shopping behaviour poll!

iPhone Fashion Apps

Those of us who like to follow the continual comings and goings within the fashion industry can now keep in touch with a pretty cool range of apps that enable you to follow the latest trends on the catwalk and beyond.

Here are our pick of some of the best available fashion apps for iPhone, Blackberry and Android phones:

• Net-A-Porter’s free fashion application – a slick app which keeps you up to date with cutting edge fashion……

• Style.com – An app to keep you up to date with the latest gossip and fashion events from the Style File

• Stylebook – A nice app that helps you build a look from your wardrobe…….

Other iPhone Fashion Applications worth trying are:

• D&G Fashion Channel Winter 2010
• The Ralph Lauren Collection
• Donna Karan
• Lucky magazine
• Lookz Lite
• Stylish Girl

See the full range at iPhone Apps

Blackberry Fashion Apps

• Fashion News Service by 360Fashion
• Fashion Mogul – This fun App lets you design and develop your own Fashion Boutique
• Elle Magazine – Various Blackberry Apps are available from Elle
• Shoewawa – One of the top fashion blogs for years has its own application where you can customise the blog to your hearts content
• London Fashion Week

See more Blackberry Fashion Applications.

Google Android Fashion Apps

Those with an Google Android phone may want to keep an eye on the fast-growing Android App Marketplace where there are likely to be a good range of fashion applications appearing in time. For now, have a look at

• ShopSavvy – scan barcodes of any product

• OI Shopping list

These are some of our top apps, if you know of any other useful fashion applications – please let us know!

The much-hyped Jimmy Choo line for H&M arrived in stores over the weekend, and it certainly drew the crowds to the new H&M store in our home city of Glasgow. The range has also proved massivley popular worldwide (it will only be sold in 200 stores). Some people even resorted to camping outside the stores – now that is dedication to fashion.

Many of the lines have sold out already and are going on eBay for ridiculously inflated prices.

Did you manage to get your hands on anything? How long did you queue up for? and most importantly: Are the clothes any cop?

Just a quick heads up folks…………..

Ex-Indie queen Pearl Lowe has designed a very cool range of dresses for clothes retailer Peacocks (modelled by her daughter Daisy). They have been on the website for a couple of days and are selling fast.

Therefore, we would advise a speedy purchase, as this range won’t last long!

 

Halloween

What are the most popular Halloween costumes this year going to be? There will certainly be some new entries into the fold this year (i know at least five people going as Michael Jackson) – anyway, lets find out from you whats going to be the biggest Halloween costumes of 2009!

Also, please let us know what you are going as this year – and whats the most original or best costume you’ve seen so far?!

Have fun tomorrow guys…….

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Hi everyone – hope you liked the snappy post title, here’s a few interesting fashion stories of the last few weeks:

• London fashion week launches today 18th September. Now in its 25th year, Elle UK has produced 25 covers of its magazine this month to celebrate. You can see the full Catwalk schedule of the events ahead here, and also follow the latest happenings on their Twitter site: http://twitter.com/LDNfashion.

• The Sartorialist (Scott Schuman) has released a book – One of the most influential fashion blogs out there for years – now you can buy the book and wonder how he makes these people look so effortlessly cool.

• Emma Watson continues her inevitable ascent to the top of the UK female style tree by collaborating in the design of an ethical clothing range for People Tree. In her own words she was keen to use “fashion as a tool to alleviate poverty” Good on you Emma.

• Adidas and Puma kiss and make up! – Yes, for Peace One Day (Monday 21st September), the two sportwear companies have decided to bury the hatchet and end the 60-year old feud that was insitgated between their founding brothers.

Thanks for reading.

Sad news today that Patrick Swayze has lost his battle with cancer aged 57. He was a superb actor and iconic figure of 80s cinema.

The BBC has a thread where you can share your memories.