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Insurers Cornhill Direct have conducted a survey which polled 2,500 parents. According to the survey the average teen wears trainers or shoes worth £64.49 and a £74.77 coat. £49.86 jeans and £40.42 jumper. They wear jewellery worth about £125 , and £75 watch, carry a mobile phone at £127.58 and an M3 player worth £150. Wallets or purses cost £32.80 and hold about £30. A third of the parents say teens expect the latest fashions, and half say they spend half their average £6.29 a week pocket money on clothes and gadgets. But 3 in 10 teens regularly lose valuable items or have them stolen. Cornhill Direct say 'Parents should try to prevent them leaving the home with too much costly kit'.