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Women spend a year deciding what to wear

Women spend almost a year of their lives deciding what to wear, according to a new study.

Choosing outfits for work, nights out, dinner parties, holidays and other activities means the average female will spend 287 days rifling through their wardrobe.

Clothes retailer Matalan compiled the results after polling 2,491 women.

The study found most women spend around 20 minutes deciding what to wear before going out in the evening. Deciding on what clothes to take on holiday uses up to 52 minutes each time. On top of that dinner parties, Christmas parties and black tie events - at around 36 minutes a time six times a year - adds up to three and a half days.

The study also found on average women will try on two outfits each morning before coming to a final decision. And one in two women spend 15 minutes the night before work working out what to wear.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .