to think the hatred for Next is just backlash against the popular and successful?

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I don't get it, they stock such a wide range of products and styles how can everyone on here hate them? Whatever you find in other shops, you can generally find in Next too.

It's just bandwagonning isn't it? It's popular so it's cool to say you hate them isn't it?

In my eyes, if I want nice kids clothes Next has it- from cute and girly, to hooker style, to nautical, to traditional, whatever you want they have it!

They have women's stuff in formal, casual, tarty, frumpy, maternity, everything under the sun.

I shop in loads of places, including Next, but all the Next hatred puzzles me.

I'm not keen on Next because

• It's dreadful vanity sizing, I have a 40 inch arse, that's not a size 8 by anyone's standards
• They make their clothes for apple shapes. I am (quite obviously) a pear
• They'll take a nice, unoffensive piece of clothing and put something tacky like diamante on it
• I used to work there and I'm now instinctively against it

Their childrens stuff is fantastic though, and their home stuff too (I almost exclusively buy Next bed linen for non-iron ease). The adult clothes are pretty frumpy but I think that's mostly just the local stock as the online stuff isn't as bad.

Also reading this through, I think someone ought to send this to their strategy manager or equivalent. It's like a focus group for free!

Are the hooker clothes just for girls? Or do just as many boys wear them, and in fact they are regularly modelled by George Bush?

I hate that they plaster their logo over a lot of their clothes. Puts me right off. Find their stuff dull and don't like the sizing anymore.

Late 80's/ early 90's I loved them and most of my clothes were Next.

Also Monsoon. Used to love it - can't find much these days and it looks crap on.

I fecking hate buying online. I don't want an account. I just want to pay for it there and then. Why the feck do I need to put a pair of £40 jeans on an account?

And, even though I checked the box saying I don't want a catalogue, a ruddy great box just arrived containing two catalogues with a total of 1394 pages of dead trees that will just be going straight in the recycling.

I had my Next catalogue a few weeks back and I was actually saying "WTF" outloud on virtually every page of womenswear. Some very odd styles.

However I buy a lot of dc clothing from there.

No, OP
It's because the clothes are ugly and overpriced tat.
Lipsy is clearly meant for men in drag....

Hate? Hate!!?

I dislike the clothes in Next generally because I think they are a bit dull and not to my taste. but I wouldn't waste energy hating them.

I like their baby girls clothes

I used to love Next until about 8 years ago.
I did get enticed back last year when they introduced high-waisted jeans. I tried a pair, they were fab - so good I went back to get an identical pair.
Which didn't. Their cutting is so erratic that you can try on two of the same item and one can have both waist and leg length over 4 inches different from the other - as I found out when I tried getting another great pair of trousers in a different colour. As I now mostly shop online, I don't want to risk finding that 'my' size doesn't fit.

It's like most shops...I like some of the stuff but not others.
I like a lot of the boyswear and pjs.
Also some of the housewares.
Not found much for myself in the last year or so though

If this thread really is for research purposes, I have a small point to make.
If you make t - shirts with a 'nylony' texture then they should be at least suitable for tumble drying. I don't mind not being able to tumbledry proper cotton t-shirts but I expect to be able to tumbledry mixed fibres.
Just something I noticed from a t shirt that I bought (with a gift voucher).
Personally tumble drying is something I look for in clothes, even though I usually line dry. I like to have that option.

I like some of it, it's pricey but I like the kid clothes.

Meh. Even my mum (aged 67) thinks the clothes are a style wasteland. However, I do buy shoes there as it is one of the few places that goes up to a women's size 9.

French Connection Dresses
Next dresses

So, quite a few said they like French Connection, me too. Can't see a massive style difference myself. Can't see all the frumpy waistless shapeless dresses in Next any more than French Connection. Maybe Next not quite same quality but are less expensive, but don't find French Connection brilliantly made myself, in my opinion it is just perception.

The shop is crap. You need to look online to see the nicer stuff

I didn't realise Next was hated??

I don't shop there, none of their stuff has ever fitted me properly and I find it expensive for what it is. I might have the occasional mooch if I'm trying to kill time or I'm with other people. But make a point to do my clothes shopping there? Not a chance.

I do a lot of my shopping at Matalan - bloody love the place, however I'm well aware a lot of my friends look down on me because of it, they think it's cheap. Which is bloody laughable when they shop at New Look!!

I am mentally going through my wardrobe now and I have a wide range of clothes from cheap brands to ridiculously expensive brands and not one item of it is from Next!

the sizing is ridiculous.
size 6 swamps me but i don't want to wear the teen range!
plus over priced not very well made clothing imo.

They do a decent petite section unlike 99 percent of other shops so they get my custom.

I never liked Next, at its height it stocked things only in the wrong colours and style for me (but maybe I also didn't like it because everyone else did, a bit like U2).

Recently we had a small one in town, that rarely had anything I liked even for the kids.
Now we have a big out of town one, but its the only clothes shop (other than Sports Direct) there, and I'm not sure how much custom it gets. We've been in once and they didn't have what we waned in stock - but it does have a bigger kids section, just none of the teen stuff we could see online. There weren't many people in there, about equal to the number of staff - I wonder if it will survive.

very safe sign but it's ideal for my 14 yo rd as she has sld and is very vulnerable and most other places are completely unsuitable
Uniform you can order all year round too
I also have a bed from them which is so bloody comfortable that I would spend all day in it if I could
Delivery is very reliable one, so much so I have even ordered household appliances through them

The cut of Next clothes is shite, unflattering and shapeless.

The style of clothes is generally frumpy. Whoever said about Halifax uniform was spot on.

I like my clothes to be cut well and fit well. I also tend to like them to flatter my shape, and I've never come across clothes at Next that do that.

Don't quite know why you're so hung up on it, OP, but French Connection clothes are a far better cut, tend to be made from better quality material and are generally designed to fit a shape. I also.shop at Reiss, Ted Baker, H&M, Monsoon, Guess, Gap, Superdry etc. All are far superior to Next.

I have some nice jeans from next And have bought some bits for my dd from there,they do a nice range in rainbow colours in the 0-18mth range but I don't like their boys clothes and they are often overpriced.