To think someone at M&S is playing a prank?

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Dressing this poor model in a hideous mix of prints.

What?? is this outfit?

nice faded scarves ?? What are they then?

Seriously....this thread is like laughing at the afflicted! It's M&S! It's for OLD people.

I thought BHS was for old people but even that's looking trendier than
M & S these days.

my mum wd love these and I en joking she is 82 mind!

www.marksandspencer.com/Per-Una-Conversational-Umbrella-Cardigan/dp/B0048B19O8?ie=UTF8&ref=sr_1_10&nodeId=43078030&sr=1-10&qid=1358541866
I love the conversational description too.

Oh Dear. Those jeggings. I can see those going terribly, terribly wrong .

All of Per Una is like one big, giant episode of Punk'd!

'For a touch of Italian Romance'

Italy. Romance. A cardigan featuring jaunty sequinned umbrellas.

One of these things does not belong.

What kind of conversation do you think it would start - "why are you wearing such a hideous cardigan" perhaps?

But it's a conversational piece don't you know.

Hang on a minute, they said this was a conversational cardi with a touch of Italian Romance.

Am I being two-timed?

MrsMushroom - Oi!
I have a horrible feeling Per Una is aimed at me and my contemporaries (at least, it used to be) and I wouldn't be seen dead in any of it. Not that I'm anywhere near my 70s yet.

Hope the lady coming from Jaeger is going to turn it all around, or it's going to go so far down it may not recover.

I hope she gets the photograpy and styling for the website sorted too as it is, frankly, shit.

they've got some super spring coats in too!

'Conversational' = people will say something like 'Ooo what a... colourful cardigan'

more prints

It doesn't help that the trousers are 'modelled' as if the model inside them is suffering from a bad case of thrush - possibly brought on by the high nylon content of the garment.

M&S sale clothes are mythical. You never, ever see them in store, and then they gallop onto the website like a mighty herd of appliqued wildebeest for a fortnight, dropping in price every couple of days, and then they vanish again, in a shimmer of strange prints and dropped sequins.

this doesn't even fit the model-have they just given up?

At least fellas don't have to put up with this shit. Exhibit A.

Snice that IS super!!

Snice the model in that picture - well, I'm not saying she has a sagging chest or anything but her boobs look like they are 2 inches lower than they should be. The cut of that top is odd.

I also love the black dress. I feel I could channel a Wednesday Adams look in that.

thats what I thought Free - it doesn't begin to fit her AND they couldn't be bothered to photoshop it

There's something quite compelling about that "conversational umbrella cardi". I'm quite taken with it- do you think it would be OK for office wear or only when you're going sailing or being otherwise "jaunty"??

Have they been taking inspiration from toddler crayon drawings? The trouser shoes are my faves !

Oh my, my 55 yo Mum would not be seen dead in that shit, looks like someone just vomited on it all.

Snice, that printed jacket looks like it's made from coach seats.

Dromedary
Cheating slightly as I put this on S&B already, but couldn't resist sharing