32 Affordable Gifts Anyone With Expensive Taste Would Actually Like

Doesn't it always seem like there are more and more people to buy gifts for each year? Needless to say, the gift-giving budget is stretched, and if you're like me, you take pride in finding the best gifts possible for the best prices possible. Given this, lists of under-$100 gift ideas really come in handy this time of year.
Some would say (me, mostly) that gift guides are my specialty, and I've been meticulously collecting ideas throughout the year. In my opinion, the best gifts are thoughtful, something the recipient wouldn't think to buy for themselves, useful, and, last but not least, expensive looking. It's the latter that I'm really focusing on with this gift guide.
Below, you'll find 31 of my favorite gifts of the season, including options for all of the different types of people in your life. Keep scrolling to work toward closing out that gift-shopping list along with me.
People have been absolutely losing it over this limited-edition blush, and Nordstrom just restocked it.
Such a special gift to give the world traveler in your life.
I think we all have a few bag charm–loving people in our lives right now.
Every time I wear this beautifully clean fragrance, someone asks what it is.
I love this brand for men's bracelets of every style.
I buy all of my bath mats from Parachute.
Allyson is a senior editor for Who What Wear. She joined the company in 2014 as co-founder Katherine Power's executive assistant and over the years has written hundreds of stories for Who What Wear. Prior to her career in fashion, Allyson worked in the entertainment industry at companies such as Sony Pictures Television. Allyson is now based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She holds a BFA in theater arts. Her path to fashion may not have been linear, but based on the number of fashion magazines she collected as a child and young adult, it was meant to be.
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