Spending: Catching the Bouquet, in a Dress You Bought Online
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The Internet is helping to drive the shift to fashionable bridal attendant wear, as Web sites offer a broad choice of styles and fabrics and ease of purchase.
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Spending by Americans shopping  online during this year's holiday season rose 24 percent from a  year earlier to $8.8 billion, with sharp gains in purchases of  clothing and entertainment, Web company VeriSign Inc. VRSN.O  said on Thursday.
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Online buying continues to snowball, according to the results of a recent America Online survey. This year, for the first time, Americans who regularly use the Internet for shopping -- researching
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Fashionistas spend a lot of time trying to figure out what's behind a collection. Dolce and Gabbana make it easy: What you see is what you get.
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Comment is free: AgnÃ¨s Poirier: In the country of romance, a website is making sex and adultery as easy as buying a croissant.
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Are you spending too much or too little on this and that?
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A new online service makes it easy to track your expenses and even save some money.
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Social networking features are popping up on auction and shopping sites, allowing visitors to compare notes and turn e-commerce into a social experience.
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Online retailer Buy.com is inviting itself into the expanding social networking scene, acquiring a Web site that rewards members with checks or gift certificates if they persuade others to buy their favorite products.    The purchase of Metails.com piggybacks on a growing phenomenon: online services that link people with common interests and friends, creating bonds that transcend social, economic and geographic boundaries...
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While Vogue's September issue is still offering its famously dramatic images of 6-foot beauties clad in high fashion, the publication is adding an extra element that is a bit more utilitarian &#151; online shopping.
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Fashion may be feeling the effects of the stock market wobble, but you could not tell amid the big spending and opulent theatricality.
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The e-tailer, seeking users' input, invests in online collaboration.
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SHUFFLING THE CARDS: With the rising popularity of giving gift cards in lieu of presents, Internet businesses have sprung up allowing the sale or swap of unwanted cards.
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Tempted by lower prices and a wide selection of goods, U.S. shoppers clamored to the Web this holiday season, spending $23.2 billion, or 25 percent more than in the previous year, according to a survey released this week.
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Online retailer Buy.com is inviting itself into the expanding social networking scene, acquiring a Web site that rewards members with checks or gift certificates if they persuade others to buy their favorite products.
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Sometimes, buying new is worth the expense.
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Attention female shoppers: How much time do you spend in retail therapy?