to buy clothes and perfumes from M&S given that I am 30 years old.......

[MWBBE]

Am I too young?
Is M&S too frumpy?!

I like m&s for clothes.

Depends what you buy though.

Buy clothes you like wherever they are sold. Your money :)

Personally, I find it too expensive there.

I ALWAYS get complimented on my M & S perfume & have been wearing it since my 30's.

Well I don't buy the huge granny pants

I buy the jeggings, the (nicer) underwear, the perfume

Then I buy quite a bit for work as well (dresses, pencil skirts, tops, shoes). They are one of the few places where I find I can get work clothes that are smart and with decent length skirts (I am very tall). If I try and dress for work out of anywhere 'trendy' I end up looking like a hooker

I do like Reiss and Whistles but can't afford them except for in the sales

I'm nearly old enough to be your mother and it's too frumpy for me

I buy a lot for work from M&S. I find it more classy and tasteful.

Also the quality can be better than other places for things like cardigans and their underwear is still good.

ps I'm 33

Actually M and S had some great lines in the spring, and their A/W stuff, mainly in Limited Collection and Autograph was pretty good too.
About 3 years ago they had a whole range of amazing, vintage inspired printed pencil skirts and fab dresses, which I bought a few of, and always get people saying "where did you get that?"
So no, of course YANBU.
Just stay away from Per Una...

I've been buying my underwear in there since I was 18 and yes I did get laughed at but I like their stuff. I'm 29 now so don't think it's too old at all. I love the food from M&S as well. I'd do my weekly shop in there if I could afford it.

Really?

MWBBE

My 14yo DD2 has an M&S denim indigo skirt for exactly the same reason. She grew her Dotty P skirt didn't.

It has been deemed decent for wearing only over leggings.

I get my underwear from there.

I'm nearly old enough to be your mother and it's too frumpy for me

Same here. Including age.

There seems to have been another downward slide into depressing, frumpy garments recently. I love their food. I like their bedding and some of the home furnishings stuff but their clothes make you lose the will to live.

The five pocket jeggings (that are not at all a jegging!) are fabulous.

High Five for thinking 30 is too young for anything!

They sell great underwear!

See, I think M and S is actually bad for undies these days. Debenhams is much better.

Well I'm mid 40s and have just started buying a few bits and bobs of Autograph work wear there but thats mainly because I needed an entire smart wardrobe when I started a new job and found some at a good price at an M&S outlet.

Oh, and I bought some of the Lana jeans after reading an article about them (designed for a shape rather than a size IYSWIM) but was really disappointed in them as they were crap

I'm 37 and I've never stopped shopping in M&S - my mother dressed me in their kids' clothes throughout childhood. She bought my school uniform there too. Now it's like a comfort thing. The only thing I've never bought there is a bra, because I'm an unusual size (small back, mahoosive boobs.) They now claim to do my size, but if I try one on, it's totally different from all my Bravissimo bras. I think M&S is better quality across the board. I'm a big fan of black tops (huge bust again!) and I have some M&S ones that have lasted for years. Have to agree with the "avoid Per Una" advice though. It's all so embellished.

Gail it took me ages to go back to M&S. My Mum used to take us shopping on Saturdays and as I was a naughty child I associated M&S with slapped legs! I am now mid 50s and I like the leggings and the underwear, but I buy from eBay as there are traders there that deal on the overbuys.

I think it depends which of their stores you shop in. My local store and the one where I grew up are both very 'Grannyish' and I don't go in those apart from for food. The M&S in our local City and a couple on retails parks are fantastic.

I tend to buy underwear and work clothes from their. I got two gorgeous sets of underwear from my M&S from my DH for Christmas.

I am 33.