Fast fashion: Britons to buy 50m 'throwaway outfits' this summer

Survey finds holiday clothing is biggest extravagance, with consumers set to spend 700m

Britons will spend 2.7bn this summer on more than 50m summer outfits that will be worn only once, a poll reveals.

By far the biggest extravagance is new clothing for holidays, where consumers splash out more than 700m on 11m items bought for the trip which will never be worn again, according to research carried out by Censuswide for the charity Barnardo's.