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'As a style expert, these are the biggest fashion mistakes I made this year.'

We all have fashion regrets. Even the best-laid plans can lead to us to buying something that just doesn't work — no matter how much we want it to.

Even after 20-plus years in the fashion industry, I still get it wrong from time to time.

I seem to make most of my fashion blunders when I'm trying to push the boat out a little and step outside my comfort zone with a new style or trend!

Like the time I bought a black pair of Adidas sambas. I loved my white pair so much that I thought a black pair would be double the fun!

It turns out they were much harder to style!

In the video below I spill the tea on why those black Sambas were a bad decision and share some of the biggest fashion regrets I've made in the past 12 months so you don't fall into same trap, too:


Video courtesy of Leonie Barlow/Youtube: The Fashion Insider.

Feature image: Supplied.

Australian fashion expert Leonie Barlow spent almost 15 years editing some of New Zealand's top-selling magazines including Fashion Quarterly, the NZ edition of The Australian Women's Weekly, CLEO, SHE and New Idea before launching herself on YouTube in 2017 as The Style Insider. Nowadays, the 57-year-old posts weekly videos to her popular channel helping everyday women navigate fashion trends and offering simple shortcuts to style. You can follow her here.

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