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Luxury style on a budget with ASOS

As a self-styled ‘luxury lifestyle’ blog, you may be somewhat surprised to see a title promising luxury style on a budget.

And you’d be right, but I understand that not everyone wants to spend their week’s wages on clothes, so here we are.

Well that, and the fact ASOS sent me a load of gear to feature…


Explain that title please...

Ugh, if I must...

Listen, I love a good expensive garm as much as the next bloke, but sometimes I don't want to spend half a month's wages on my outfit.

I've been thinking about this recently, and as someone who's looking to get on the property ladder in the not-so-distant future, it made sense to cut back on my frivolous attire spending.

But, can you get the quality and the look of expensive clobber without having to pay an arm and a leg? Can luxury style on a budget really be achieved?

Well, read on squire.

Luxury style on a budget. Really?

Yes.

It is entirely possible. The style messiah has spoken.

Trust in my infinite wisdom and you shall be saved in wallet and in fashion - I promise.

Shall we have a little gander at what luxurious, yet reasonably-priced clothes I got then or what?

The perfect pieces

The folks over at ASOS were kind enough to let me pick 5 bits from their ASOS design range to showcase just how luxurious the bois can look on a budget.

So with this in mind, I went for an overcoat, biker jacket, cowboy (I think?) boots, a smart shirt and some rather zany trousers.

Shall we have a look?

Overcoat

Biker Jacket

Cowboy Boots

Smart Shirt

Trousers

Putting them together

The great thing about these pieces is that you can wear it all together if you wanted - with the exception of the two coats obviously.

Now, I didn't want to do that because I want to showcase to you a variety of looks, but just so you know - you can wear 'em all if you fancied it. Anyway, here's some dapper looks I cooked up just for you my friend.


Easy as pie.

Luxury style on a budget isn’t the the oxymoron you may have thought. It is entirely possible to look dashing on a relative shoestring budget.

Shoestring - was that an unintentional style pun?

Maybe.

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