Read This Before You Go Clothes Shopping and Come Home with Purchases You Regret

Last fall, Sally Bjornsen founded the Great American Apparel Diet, in which she and dozens of women from around the world decided to not buy clothing for an entire year. Now that she’s entering the home stretch of the fashion fast, Bjornsen has learned enough from the experiment to establish eight essential shopping rules—steps, considerations, and minimum requirements that’ll help ward off wasteful spending.