As Christmas ends (and sometimes even before it has ended) the January and late December sales are upon us. Now I don’t know what you are like but if you are anything like me your wardrobe is full of ‘sale bargains’ These inevitably hang in the wardrobe and rarely leave their hangars – they may have been cut price bargains but they are really not a bargain if they are something that you are never going to wear.

This year make a resolution to only buy things in the sale that you are going to wear. In order to do this there are a few rules which will ensure that if you stick to them you will end up with a wardrobe full of real bargains which will be worth their weight in gold as you will wear them season after season – rather than a wardrobe full of sad looking fashion mistakes!

Rule 1: Always buy items in the correct size. Don’t be fooled into thinking that you have put on loads of weight at Christmas and will be able to go down form a 14 to a 10 in the New Year. Chances are you won’t and you will have just bought something that will stay in your wardrobe year after year gathering dust and moths

Rule 2 – Try everything on before you buy it. Even if an item of clothing is in your size, the cut, the type of material and the style can all club together to make something that looks great on a hangar a disaster on you. There is no better way to see whether something is right for you then trying it on. Even better take a really honest friend with you who will tell you if you bum does look big in the item!

Rule 3 – Don’t buy items of clothing that are stuck in a time warp. Fashion is a funny thing and one year lime green can be great but it is a colour that ages and isn’t in fashion year after year. Don’t think just because it is cheap and fashionable that it will suit you.

A ghillie suit is an outfit that is used for camouflage. Also known as a yowie suit, a ghillie suit is used by hunters and snipers to help them blend into their surroundings, so they can?t be seen.

Ghillie suits were originally developed by Scottish gamekeepers as a portable hunting blind, so that hunters could blend into the surroundings to hunt and not be seen by wild game.

Ghillie suits can be made in several different ways and with a variety of materials. Some ghillie suits makers use Hessian, a rough burlap in flutes that are attached to a net poncho. Other makers use a jute twine to attach to a net poncho.

The US army ghillie suits use a pilot?s flight suit as the base or battle dress uniform. The most common ghillie suit base is durable nylon netting.

The base of a ghillie suit is made with a stainable durable fabric such as burlap. As nearly invisible as possible, fishing line or unscented dental floss is used to sew each knot of net to the fabric where the camouflage is going to be attached. Hot glue or shoe glue is applied to each knot to strengthen the ghillie suit. From there, the desired camouflage is applied to the netting by tying groups of 5-10 strands of a color to the net with simple knots?the colors are intermixed to create a camouflage appearance.