Have you ever found your dream dress or perfect top in your favourite high street store only to have it taken from right under your nose? You know the scenario - you see the most gorgeous item of clothing, you’re just about to reach for the last one in your size when a hand comes out of nowhere and swipes it away before your eyes. If you’re anything like me, you spend the next 15 minutes ‘browsing’ whilst keeping the clothes snatcher under surreptitious surveillance. They walk around, picking up other items, putting them back and generally stringing out the tortuous process for you. Will they or won’t they take it to the till? Will it come back into the hands of the rightful owner. They go to the changing rooms and you hang around in the hope that they’ll come out, say to the assistant “this one’s no good” giving you the opportunity to pounce!

It happens to me all the time. Sometimes I have to admit defeat and go home empty handed, all the time building the item of clothing up and up in my mind until it reaches the status of being a top or dress that would’ve changed my life forever, led to me fulfilling my dreams and resulted in financial security for life! On occasions, I manage to return home triumphant, only for the ‘dream’ garment to spend the next 4 months at the back of my wardrobe because it doesn’t go with anything else or I simply don’t find the right occasion to wear it. Worse still, is when you get it home, still love it, feel fantastic in it, have the perfect opportunity to wear it and then someone else turns up wearing exactly the same - arrgghh! Has it ever happened to you?