Mall Shopping Sales

Mall Shopping Sales sends a bunch of best friends into the sales area, and the brief is to see how many outfits you can put together from what is on the rails. Unlike a full-price boutique, a sale section is a mix of leftovers, which makes the styling more about combining than picking a single perfect piece.

The description is unusually specific about technique. Whether you build a look around a skirt or a pair of pants, the instruction is to match the textures and the colours. That is sound advice in general: two fabrics with a different feel can sit together when the colours agree, and clash when they do not.

Taste is the other guide. You are asked to take your time and choose what best represents each friend’s fashion sense, so the group should not end up in identical outfits. Funky accessories finish the job, which gives each girl a chance to stand out from the others even if their outfits share a palette.

1. Browse the sales area for the first friend.
2. Decide on a skirt or a pair of pants as the base.
3. Match a top by texture and colour.
4. Add funky accessories, then move on to the next friend.

Decide on the bottom half first. Once the skirt or trousers are chosen, matching colours and textures on top becomes much easier.