Women wear £1,000 worth of clothes and jewellery a day
WHEN a woman steps out of the house, she is wearing £1,000 worth of clothes and accessories – almost £100 more than a man.
A study has discovered the typical woman’s day-to-day outfit involves underwear worth £26.61, a skirt at £30.46, top £22.83, knitwear £38.85, coat £64.75, tights £3.90 and shoes £51.21.
She teams this with jewellery to the value of £378.82 and a £76.49 watch.
Finally, she carries a £106.58 handbag with a purse containing cash, tickets and passes worth a total £146.29 and a £106.06 mobile phone.
That means the average woman top-to-toe is worth £1,052.85 on a daily basis – £93.84 more than the typical man.
Nikki Sellers, head of Sheila’s Wheels home insurance which funded the study of 3,000 adults, said: “While celebrities wouldn’t be seen without their designer clothes, this shows £1,000 is enough to give most British men and women the feel-good factor.”
Men aren’t far behind, kitting themselves out in items valued at £959.01. This involves underwear worth £5.97, socks at £3.72, trousers £36.05, shirt or top £29.90 and a jacket or jumper worth £44.13. On a working day he will accessorise this with an £11.79 tie, a watch worth £109.44, and jewellery to the tune of £166.32.
Leaving the house, he puts on a coat worth £67.13 and shoes at £51.61, before picking up a briefcase worth £117.95, a wallet containing £190.45 and a £124.55 mobile phone.
Ms Sellers added: “The price tag associated with outfits, accessories and a fully loaded bag can be considerable.”
The research also revealed the average person estimates their outfit goes up in value by up to £70 when they go out on a special occasion, as the best clothes and most expensive jewellery are saved for such events.
