It started with a sweater. Not just any sweater—an oversized cashmere blend in that perfect shade of oatmeal beige that every blogger and their grandmother was wearing back in 2021. I found it in a boutique in Soho, London, where I live, priced at 185 pounds. Gorgeous, but my bank account screamed no. So I did what any middle-class, mildly obsessed fashion editor would do: I went home, opened AliExpress, and typed in “cashmere blend oversized sweater.” Two weeks later, a package arrived from Shenzhen. The sweater? 32 pounds. The quality? Honestly, close enough that I couldn’t tell the difference without a magnifying glass. That was the moment my shopping…