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M&S knicker sizes have run amok! What's going on? Who knew?

23 replies

queenceleste · 03/06/2011 23:10

Bought some M and S size 12 pants, it's been awhile since I bought some there....

and they are enormous! I could sail to Australia with a few of these sewn together and a mast and a row boat.
If I'm size 10 than somebod's taking the piss!
What's going on? I'm not size ten!!!!!

This tuckuss is size ten in its dreams.

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MrsSchadenfreude · 03/06/2011 23:13

Oh yes, tell me about it. I bought some granny knickers in a hurry the other week, dashing for Eurostar. The fucking things won't even stay up - I've been buying the same size for years and years and years, and the same style.

My tuchass is considerably larger than yours, too. Grin

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queenceleste · 03/06/2011 23:14

But what's going on? What are they thinking? Do they think we're all eejits?
Is NOTHING sacred?! Grin

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Mandy2003 · 03/06/2011 23:16

All my life I've found that M&S pants have far too much "arse room" in them. I thought maybe they'd fit as I get older. No chance now it seems! My favourites: Primark or Morrisons bikinis, five pairs for £3 - lovely!

MrsSchadenfreude · 03/06/2011 23:16

I bought DD1 some age 13-14 knickers there as well, and I can get into them - I'm a size 18 (and the rest)!

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queenceleste · 03/06/2011 23:24

Mandy you are clearly the bearer of a micro-tuckuss.
All hail that little tuckuss and respect to you.
But they are lying to all of us and they are M and S and they should hold the sword of truth high and not wiggle it around in dishonesty.

Where are we when M and S is bullshitting about our nations bottoms?

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MrsPoyser · 03/06/2011 23:39

I'm a size 8 (well, I'm the same size I was ten years ago when it was a 10) and can't wear M and S knickers any more because the size 8 falls off. I just can't buy knickers anywhere else, partly because there isn't anywhere else in my town where I could buy them as part of a basket without having to talk about it, so I'm now wearing the old ones which have holes and strings of dangly elastic. But now it occurs to me that the solution is in M and S children's wear. As long as they're not too keen on letting girls be girls...

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queenceleste · 03/06/2011 23:42

Mrs Poyser, I bow to your micro-tuckuss as well for sure. All hail.
But for the rest of us, I just want the truth.

It's M and S for goodness sake!

They took £40 of tokens which I found that had been given to me in the EARLY 80s, and they accepted them in the late 90s. Much respect to Messers M and S!

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Noellefielding · 04/06/2011 21:22

they're massive, sizes are all changed.

plainwhitet · 04/06/2011 21:49

I saw a woman in M and S this week trying pants on over her jeans, next to the pants display. So if everyone is doing this no wonder they are so stretched ....

Honeybee79 · 04/06/2011 21:52

Oh no. I have a selection on order. Shit. I quite like my pants big though Grin

Panzee · 04/06/2011 21:52

plainwhitet I suspect she was a superhero. :o

MamaMary · 04/06/2011 21:55

Primark have gone the other way. Their size 12 vest tops look about a size 6 to me.

Maryz · 04/06/2011 21:56

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youarekidding · 04/06/2011 21:57

My mum bought some size 14's as they are larger than normal. They didn't fit promting her to diet (she looks great now btw and done brilliantly) and me to dance around happy that they fell down. Grin

Regardless of the fact they were pants and I wear boxers.

WineComesInAtTheMouth · 04/06/2011 21:59

Bugger. I fit the size 16 ones I bought the other day....

I have lost half a stone in last 3.5 weeks and thought I was doing really well until I saw this thread!

Maryz · 04/06/2011 22:10

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WineComesInAtTheMouth · 04/06/2011 22:24

Maryz oh how I wish I'd lost 3.5 stone! Grin

Alas only half stone in 3.5 weeks. Thank you for making me feel better though, and I will bear in mind that the size 16s are really size 16s. Tsk. Naughty ol M and S. But I blame their food my lack of willpower anyway.

emmspemms · 04/06/2011 22:39

Tee hee, I work in a health club , opened up this morning to find a note from the part timer ( 6 th form boy ) that a pair of knickers left behind in ladies, now in lost property . They were a pair of size 14 sloggi big knickers. How I laughed picturing him with a pair of marigolds on picking them up with tongs!
They were enormous!
Are they going to be collected, I wonder ?

Noellefielding · 04/06/2011 22:40

LOL panzee

respect to all arse sizes but OP is right
Where are we all when M and S are Liars?

mrszimmerman · 07/06/2011 15:13

Appalling but it is true, they've gone off the chart for some reason. When did this happen? I don't know what to think.

BranchingOut · 07/06/2011 15:17

YABU. Buy Sloggis, then you know where you are.

mrszimmerman · 08/06/2011 00:38

ahhh sloggis, where does one purchase sloggis? Is it John Lewis and upwards from thither?

BranchingOut · 08/06/2011 08:36

yes, plus the usual online places.

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