Why is shopping so good for the soul?

So after spending weeks and weeks of doing the most complicated university project I've come across, it was finally deadline time at 10 this morning. Once I had handed it in, I felt enormous relief, and how did I celebrate, I went shopping!
Now living in Sheffield and wanting to have a good shopping trip, I headed towards Meadowhall. On the train there, I got more and more excited, especially when I saw the turquoise roof. I know this is kind of sad, but it had been the light at the end of the tunnel when I was swamped with work.
I started to wonder, what's so good about shopping? why does it attract so many people into shops week after week, to buy things that they don't necessarily need but want? and when it gets extreme, sends many people into thousands of pounds worth of debt.
I don't have the answers, as it is surely much more complicated that it first seems. But for me, I love clothes (as I am a fashion design student) and I love having a new outfit. I like changing my look when I feel a bit boring and buy things that make me happy. I used to shop a lot more than I do nowadays, going clothes shopping almost every week, and looking back these times were when I was most unhappy. Shopping gave me a bit of happiness and time alone with my thoughts. However nowadays, it's just because I fancy another top or dress!
Shopping will always be good for the soul even though it is a materialistic thing, it gives people time to escape into a world of colours, sparkles and pretty shops, and I personally don't see anything wrong with this.
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Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattinson

As I was perusing my regular fashion blogs today, I stumbled across these photos taken for Harper's Bazaar magazine of Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattinson. There's something kind of good about them, I like the dramatic dresses and backgrounds. The prada red dress is my favourite. However, I think the black hair is a bit weird and some of the photos seem a bit too posed. Buy hey, maybe I've just watched too many vampire-related things recently. This is just my opinion, make your own mind up!

(photos taken from Red Carpet Fashion awards blog)

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