As well as that you do travel overseas which is obviously a good part of it. Once we ve decided to buy a garment we get a sample and we do the initial fit on that garment. We make sure that it basically fits correctly to our minimum measurements, we look at all the trims and we look at how functional it s going to be. We have to think about wearability and end use - they re really key to the purchase. You go through from being a buyer to a senior buyer, then perhaps as a controller, and you can go into a director s role.
Women do very well in terms of director s position within the fashion industry.
There are also a lot of other fashion-related industries you could go into like magazines, television or styling. I d like to try department store buying, which is completely different to the type of buying we do here at Oasis, or even something completely different like fashion journalism. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.