The budget fashionista tells all (Houston Chronicle Sunday, 25 Jun 2006, Page G3)

The budget fashionista tells all
By KARA G. MORRISON
Houston Chronicle Sunday
25 Jun 2006


It took a mountain of creditcard debt and college loans to make Kathryn Finney rethink her spending on clothes.



Well that, and falling in love.



“It took marrying someone cheap to understand how really in debt I was,” says Finney. “I had a love of fashion, but a real lack of cash, and my husband said, ‘You’ve got to curtail your spending.’ ”



Today, the creator of the shopping blog TheBudgetFashionista.com, Finney is on a multicity tour with her new book,



(Ballentine Books, $12.95). It’s filled with tips on staying stylish without breaking the bank.



In an industry as high-brow as fashion, she says, the bestdressed always know how to snag a deal.



“I know editors in New York at major magazines who shop at Target. Do not let them fool you,” says Finney, who lives in New Jersey. “Celebrities are beyond bargain shoppers. They want everything given to them.”



This is not the career the Minnesota native envisioned while getting her graduate degree in epidemiology from Yale. But when her husband created a blog site for her three years ago as an outlet for her shopping obsession, bargain fashionistas from... read more...