This tag just made it much harder to return items you've worn already - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Fashion This tag just made it much harder to return items you’ ve worn already By You Magazine - September 23, 2019 Have you ever bought an outfit, worn it and then sent it back? You might not want to admit it, but with the rise of fast fashion, the sneaky tactic has become some common it’s now got its own term: ‘wardrobing.’ But now, as a result of this development, online retailers have now had to take drastic measures to ensure they don’t fall victim to these deceptive returns. Getty Images E-tail giants across the country and internationally are believed to have set out plans to introduce ‘R-Turn Tag’ on their clothes. The special tag has been designed by retail technology company Checkpoint Systems and is impossible to reattach once it has been removed. The big red tag will be placed at the front of each item so that shoppers won’t be able to wear the item out in public or take pictures in it without it being entirely noticeable. That way, they’ll be forced to remove it and once removed, it is no longer eligible for a return or exchange. In other words, wardrobing will no longer be a thing. Checkpoint Systems/alphaworld.com It has not yet been announced which online retailers will be rolling out the extra security tag but Checkpoint Systems has admitted that they are in talks with some popular names. So, could this really be the end? As reported by Metro, one fifth of the nation are serial clothes returners, who as a whole end up costing the industry an estimated £1.5 billion per year. Alamy Stock Photos But this isn’t the first time the fast fashion industry has take action against the practise. Earlier this year, ASOS announced they would blacklist accounts which returned a suspiciously high number of clothes. Back in Janurary, we reported that the company’s decisions came after new research – which was conducted by resource planning platform Brightpearl – found that more than a third of shops have seen an increase in serial returns over the last year. RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR Rochelle Humes has launched a gorgeous new edit with Next Shop the YOU Magazine Instagram YOU picks the best new-in buys from M& S Popular in Fashion Laura Jackson has teamed up with Next for the chicest knitwear January 22, 2020 Holly Willoughby’ s birthday dress is another Zara bargain February 10, 2020 The Instagram-famous & Other Stories wool blazer is back in stock August 31, 2022 Lorraine just wore Emma Willis’ Next collection from head to toe March 17, 2020 The prettiest spring dresses under £100 March 1, 2022 Everyone is buying Holly’ s gorgeous gingham Oasis dress May 14, 2020 13 bargain dresses to buy in ASOS’ s extra 20 per cent June 10, 2020 This £20 H& M dress is set to be the social media June 26, 2020 Stacey Solomon x Primark is back for a third collection with July 20, 2020 Searches for this perfect heatwave summer top style are up 5000% August 10, 2020 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved