to think the quality of clothes on the high street is crap right now?

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I ventured into the city today for a mooch around. I'd given myself a talking to before I went not to spend any money.
So I mooched, but seriously what a load of crap.
I'm not spending money on that crap.

Saying that mint velvet had some nice stuff, but that was about it.

AIBU? or has high street shopping gone shit?

Yanbu. The price of cotton has soared, so the quaility of clothes has suffered dreadfully. It's polyester and viscose a go go atm....and not cheap either!!

no, i wouldn't if it was dirt cheap but it's not that either.

^mind

i can always find something in zara and french connection, karen millen good but a bit pricey (for me)

rest of stores a are bit hit and miss

I totally agree! Too much scratchy, itchy material. Also, very hard to find a decent pair of boot cut jeans (I found, anyway) in bigger sizes. Everything's skinny-legged, which I appreciate is in at the moment, but if I wore a pair of rose I'd look like a lamb shank!

Just the other day I saw a pair of boots in schuh I liked-ish...they were £85, yet they were not leather!

How the hell will I ever be able to afford a decent pair of shoes again, if pleather boots are coming in at £85???

What pictish said about the price of cotton.

It's all polyester crapola. Which they are still charging cotton prices for

Mint Velvet stuff is shockingly over-priced imho. When they started, they did nice fabrics at a reasonable price and with excellent sales.

I emailed M&S the other day to complain about the shocking quality and fabrics of much of their stuff. They haven't bothered replying though.

I don't buy many clothes but I'm actually finding it almost impossible to buy replacements for things that are just too old now, as everything is either poor quality or v v expensive or both.

I complained to Next over similar. Kids jeans at £22 a pair splitting at the knee within six weeks, t-shirts being so thin as to be transparent, threads hanging off everything, wayward seams and nasty nasty fabrics all round.

I look around Next and it's as though someone has taken leftover stock from What Every Woman Wants circa 1987, and arranged it artfully in there instead.

I bought 3 pairs of jeans from Dorothy Perkins a few months ago, I live in jeans and a pair normally last a year or so. The DP jeans have all worn through already. Everything seems to shrink as well. DH bought some Tesco polo type jumpers, they've shrunk despite not being in the dryer, M&S women's t-shirts all seem to go short and wide within a few washes.

YANBU I have always relied on Hobbs for the majority of my workware, I bought a couple of new suits in January before returning from maternity leave and they are already bobbling and looking old. It seems to very hit and miss out there.

I've found if I go looking for something specific I can still find decent quality at a reasonable price.

I tend to go on Polyvore or Pinterest before going shopping and have bought stuff from Matalan, H&M, Dorothy Perkins, Primark, etc recently and found bits that have been perfectly fine, have been washed and tumbled several times and haven't shrunk or lost their shape

What shops did you go in OP?
H&M, NEW look, Next, Top Shop, FCUK all rubbish.
White stuff, Fat face = lovely.

ha, i've come up with a cunning plan.
i wear a tunic dress right now that I love to wear. the pattern is ridiculously simple looking so i've downloaded a very similar pattern. time to get my sewing maching back in action.
fabric store in town, here i come.

I briefly looked in Next on Saturday. Very crimplene, very dull, nothing nice at all.

I am also noticing the cheaper man-made fabrics, and less wool and cotton.

However, I feel I have enough clothes now. I don't want to buy any more really ...

We bought toddler some new PJs last week, comparing the thickness to her previous pair (whoch have wawhed and wahed) was an eye opener. And its not asif they are 'summer weight' because they were winter catalogue.

A lot of polyester chiffon about. Doesnt help that it's not the weather for chiffon! Will give up and wear last year's stuff that is still unworn because of the crap weather

Yanbu there is a lot of rubbish quality stuff around - retailers desperately trying to hold onto profits I guess?

Bought some M & S school trousers for dd the other day - definitely not same quality as the ones I got in September. Can't afford clothes for me atm but wouldn't want to buy anything much anyway from what I've seen lately!

Ah yes, the polyester chiffon. Saw loads of it in M&S on the beach cover-ups rail! Some pretty designs, but who would want to wear something so uncomfortably-nylony-sweaty over your costume at the beach?

Yes to shrinking. Looking at kids clothes in the shop they seem huge, but when you've washed them they are much smaller.

The designs of clothes on the high st seem so horrible to me. E.g. Next little girl clothes - colours horrible, clothes a mish mash of prints and patterns.

Can't find anything that suits me - mid 30s medium sized but with large boobs. Clothes seem to be made for skinny teens or middle aged women.

And despite it barely getting above freezing all shops are stocked with clothes for high summer - which is months away (if it comes at all).

Yanbu. I went shopping the other day for the first time in ages and was appalled. Oasis and Warehouse were all cheap and nasty, H&M kids stuff was shocking, and I despair of ever finding decent jeans again.

Cheap and nasty looking that should be. They weren't particularly cheap.