Women's suits.

I think its down to what you typed in the search box

For Next I found this in "work wear"

www.next.co.uk/shop/gender-women-productaffiliation-tailoring-0#3_2749

And 'smart work wear'

www.next.co.uk/women/tailored-looks

And M&S in 'work wear'

www.marksandspencer.com/l/women/workwear

all I'm asking for is where can I purchase a good suit like the one I bought in 2010. It was an M&S suit.

I'm not sure why the decline in M&S's quality is a feminist issue?

I buy a few suits every year and I wear one almost every day.

The sites listed as searched are cheap thus their office attire looks and is cheap. Just like men's suits if you want good quality you have to pay the price for quality. These shops might have decent selections in person but more expensive suits aren't usually big sellers so you tend to find them in a physical retail spaces easier than online.

Unfortunately, a decent suit is going to carry a price tag of at least $300 (unless on sale) - my closet is full of quality suits purchased in-person after trying on and oftentimes tailored post-purchase. I often self-tailor as I am usually able but with more complicated adjustments I take them to the tailor.

There's no substitute for quality textiles, quality fabric, and quality construction.

Most of the supposed workwear for women these days looks like casualwear - like they're going out to hang out with friends or go to the beach or more directly have zero clue what professional wear looks like. I live in a tropical climate and you wouldn't believe the things that women wear to the office thinking they look business casual - their attire is the equivalent of a man in a see-through tank undershirt with basketball shorts i.e. not professional attire regardless of how you try to dress it up. When I tell a member of my staff to wear a suit I mean wear a suit not some stretchy straight legged almost see through "trousers" that are actually yoga pants and I don't mean some see-through spaghetti strap crop with breasts falling out. It isn't about policing their personal style it is about how they present as they represent the company. If your staff looks low-rent the assumption is going to be that the product/service is low rent - which makes negotiations more cumbersome than necessary. And isn't about telling women what to wear it's about expecting women and men to dress appropriately for their role at work.

Placemats - I'm in the US but don't you have like Nordstrom's, Macy's, Dillard's, Saks, or similar there? I really think you need to go in person to try the suits on - to touch the fabrics to ensure you are purchasing quality.

Fashion has changed a lot since I was a young teenager, how patronising can you get?

I honestly don't see how that is patronising - it's just a fact! Offices have become more casual (for men and women) and even in conservative fields like law and banking, women (thankfully, IMO) aren't expected to wear (often not very nice) suits these days. Many women prefer other options now, so suits just aren't the big seller they used to be.

Separates also make sense because they cater a lot better to our many different shapes (generally less of a 'problem' with male bodies). With suits it's quite difficult to produce something nice at the lower end of high street prices. Most good suits (and this obviously includes men's suits as well) come with a hefty price tag, so it's not surprising that more affordable brands will concentrate on producing things that are cheaper and easier to make since these are also acceptable workwear now.

Just got an email from COS advertising their new work wear (including lots of trousers), there’s plenty of nice stuff and it’s so much more interesting than you typical 90s trouser suit.

And when you do find something, you'll see the jacket's been cut short, to show off your arse.

So I tried women's workwear and got this

And the vast majority of your results would be fine other than in the most formal of work situations.

"Women's workwear" is far too broad a term if you want a tailored trouser suit.

I thought this was going to be about the rubbish fabrics, complete lack of pockets (jacket pockets are often fake) and the ridiculously limited choice of styles if you do not suit the trouser shape that is currently in! In M&S in menswear you can get all the types of suit in a variety of fabrics in all the basic colours. M&S womenswear is all about the fashion - so if bootleg is in all the trousers are that. You can get black but no other "traditional" colours - grey suits me better.

Are you seeing something different?

I don't understand

When I followed the first link you posted for Next the first few results I looked at were all trouser suits...

Was your original search term " find me something trivial to make a fuss about sexism?

Jolonglegs - I like the blazer, slim-legged trouser one. Good call!

I have three suits for work, all from M&S. Two have trousers, one has a skirt.
Are these any good - www.marksandspencer.com/l/women/coords?OmnitureRedirect=womens%20trouser%20suits

My hits were entirely appropriate, Hawkes and Curtis, Jaegar and M&S, plus a lot of similar stuff, plus ads for bespoke tailoring.

I think a lot must come down to the sort of clothes pages you normally look at.

And thers no reason you cant.

trouser suits&isort=score&af=

Womens trouser suits.

Are you complaining because you would have to buy it seperate?

Lots of people prefer this than a matching suit jacket and trousers

Buy separates and mix them up.

It seems you are annoyed because fashion has changed

The issue is that OP does not grasp how searches work.

We will not get the same hits, because the devices we are using will not have the same search history as OP's, either from her own searches or from searches carried out by others using that device (which refine the basic return of what links people using those search terms actually choose to look at)

I’m struggling to see the issue. Women’s officewear tends to include more smart casual than men’s. It’s one thing if you were looking on somewhere that actually sold women’s tailoring (where you would get proper suits come up) but where you are looking at cheap shops you will get options that fit the dress codes of corresponding salaries which will inevitably be more smart casual that suits.

I would like a suit to wear to work. A trouser suit because I don't like wearing skirts. I am a woman.

Then look for a trouser suit.