You're not alone: these are our absolute biggest mistakes

Painful but true. Right now, there are hundreds of euros worth of bad purchases hanging in your closet. With a lot of fanfare and love, you once brought a certain item home, and then, well, it just wasn't as fun as you thought. We all have had bad purchases at some point. Right, colleagues? Okay, okay, you know what, I'll kick things off.

Kiki

‘Actually, there should have been a little bell ringing when I walked out of the Shoebaloo sale last year with six shoeboxes. It all went a bit too eagerly. Something with black in front of my eyes. Those Pradas are totally uncomfortable, the Gucci loafers are definitely a size too small, and I just prefer not to talk about those pointy Dolce loafers with tiger print, colored studs, and rhinestones anymore. I can't even sell them on Designer-Vintage, and that says enough, I think.’

May-Britt

‘Well, there was once a poncho-like thing from Isabel Marant that I thought: I MUST have that. Life will never be the same without it, you know? So we bought it. For four hundred euros. When I had it lying in the hotel room that evening (we were in Antwerp), Ewart said: ’It's actually just a square piece of fabric with a hole in it.‘ And that was actually true.’

Lilian

‘I bought Gucci loafers last year with studs and a heavy square toe. I've never worn them, and every time I look at them, I think: aiii... But my most painful bad purchase was in my teenage years. I had to have Uggs that were nowhere to be found, so I searched for them on eBay. I ordered my size – I thought – but it was an English size, and I have terrible dyscalculia. Long story short: they were eventually held at customs, I had to pay an extra hundred euros to have them shipped, and when they arrived, they turned out to be size forty-three. They were really unsellable due to the size, so my little brother wore them as slippers.’

Danielle

‘I don't mind buying boots a size too small if I want them. Oh, and can we also talk about that gray Balenciaga bag that I actually only bought because it was ‘super cheap’ while I later found the color gray not really nice? I could go on like this for a while.’

Lotte

‘My absolute worst purchase was a kind of baby blue, beachy dress with wide spaghetti straps, a V-neck, and seams at the hips that made it pleat and made my hips look GIGANTIC. The thing also tapers to a point at the bottom. Occasionally, I look at it and think: hmm, should I try it on again? And then I think afterwards: nah.‘

Annabelle

‘Actually, everything I buy for the holidays ends up on the bad purchase pile. Last year, I even bought a dress for three hundred euros – for the Amayzine Christmas party full of sequins and stones, and when I see it hanging now, I think: how could I have ever bought that? What a disgusting thing, hahaha.‘

Adeline

‘An incredibly expensive coat that I actually never wear and where the label fell off three minutes after purchase and two of the three buttons as well. Too cold for winter, but also too cold for autumn. The thing has to go to the dry cleaner for every little stain. Thank goodness it looks nice on the coat rack. And when I bought it, I thought we would be happy together forever. Which is probably true, because I'm really not going to get rid of it yet.‘

Annick
‘Oh, how terrible. But my very first designer bag turns out to be a gigantic bad purchase. A Proenza Schouler. There. I said it. Remember, Kiek? Still very nice, but just really too small to ever take anywhere. My phone doesn't even fit in it. I wish that were a joke. And so it has been sitting in the closet for a very long time. But I also don't want to get rid of it because of sentimental value. Complicated story this.‘