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Unless you're planning on applying for new credit, I wouldn't worry about it. Just use the card and PIF when you get the bill.
How much did you spend/how much is your credit limit? If you spent more than 50% of your credit limit, I would pay it down now, since sometimes banks don't like when you get too close to your credit limit (probably nothing to worry about unless you're at like 90%, but better to be safe). Some people have reported having their banks lower their limits after paying down nearly maxed out cards. It's unlikely this happened with clothes purchases, but if you have a low limit, it's possible.
As far as your credit score goes, it will be maximized in a given month if you pay off all of your credit cards except for one before the statement comes, and then you have the last card reporting a balance greater than $0 but less than 9% of its limit reporting. However, this aspect of your credit score has no "memory." It's not like when you have a late payment and it continues hurting your score for a while. Rather, if you have all your credit cards reporting high balances one month, but you pay them all down the next month, your credit score immediately increases and forgets about what your balances were before. So unless you are applying for credit/you just really like having high scores all the time, this is not very important, since it is easy to rectify once you are applying for credit.
@parakleet wrote:Unless you're planning on applying for new credit, I wouldn't worry about it. Just use the card and PIF when you get the bill.
+1. People don't just get CLD for using their cards. Maybe if you are carrying (not PIF by due date) a maxed out balance repeatedly, your other cards are maxed too, and you are really stuggling to pay your bills on time.... thats when you might see AA. But if you are paying your full statement balance by the due date, there will not be a problem.