Wigglybeezer but m&s always overcharge! Especially since their quality went down.
"Luckily we live in Scotland so i can get away with wearing autumn/ winter styles all year round" me too but we occasionally get a day of summer 😂😂😂 here I do layers. Bra, vest top, t-shirt, jumper to which I add a cardigan if it's really cold, coat (don't get me started on the year there were NO coats with hoods on sale here!). Bottom half - pants, tights and/or socks (again both if really cold), leggings and/or trousers. One pair of flip flops as sandals (no point in more living here), one pair trainers/lace-ups, boots (essential most of the year LOTS of rain), smart shoes for rare 'fancy' occasions.
"MNetters always have such great ideas for clothes, we should start our own shop! " happy to do admin!
"Thought, ok maybe early 30s and the shop is too young for me now - but no, next / tesco / new look / Zara were the same - shit styles, shit colours, shit fabric, just shit! I wanted a dress - just something smart casual. I'd have struggled to buy a t-shirt!" Exactly! Having the extreme high fashion in shops for teens/20's is fine but for the love of god every other one of us needs clothes too!!!
"Clothes designers have clearly lost the plot" I blame the buyers! I've spoken to retail staff in the shops and they agree! They also agree that they buy FAR too many of size 6/8 and not enough 16+ - it can't be good business sense because come the sales it's the smaller sizes/crazy designs that are CLEARLY not selling!
"I read recently that next has not performed well last season and a company spokesperson was quoted as saying that they had over invested in trend pieces and ignored the core basics that customers always need."
"I'm just reading that fashion sales dropped in March despite higher footfall on high streets."
"My interpretation is that people are going into stores because they would prefer to see the products and try on before they buy, but they find nothing to suit and so are forced online.
I have taken dd shopping twice in the last week to find some clothes for Easter holidays and there is nothing that even a slim teen girl wants to buy in stores. We have just ordered her a load of stuff online instead." Same here!
See - bad business! I wonder if the buyers are men? They're complaining online retailers are putting them outta business they're putting THEMSELVES outta business by NOT providing what customers want!
Nope - empire line just makes me look pregnant, as an apple shape that is NOT my slimmest point.
In my 40's, seen fashion from my youth since early 2000's doesn't bother me. DOES bother me it's virtually fucking impossible to get decent, cheap BASICS - even pants and proper ankle socks are murder to find!
"Maybe we need to have a thread where we can recommend / list key wardrobe essentials and where we found them ?"
Excellent idea! Can I add TELLING the shops (not the floor staff they're sadly not listened to but emailing higher ups) that we are NOT HAPPY with the poor choice? You know what maybe we should just tweet this thread to high street retailers?
I hate shopping online, you've got the 'dress size' crap where every retailer has a different idea of what eg a size 16 is! I'm a 14 in some shops and 18 in others! Fucking standardise it! Then there's different body shapes/heights (skirt and trouser length issues), men get their clothes sized on ACTUAL MEASUREMENTS so should we! Give me ACTUAL waist/leg/bust measurements rather than this 'dress size' bollocks!
For me I also can't have anything too rigid on my waist or where anything digs in to a particular area on my back (pain issues), dd can't wear the knee rips as chilled knees are a problem, she's also short body long legs, so we NEED to try stuff on!
Can I just say not all of us in our 40's and older can afford m&s, gap etc ? I'm a Lp on benefits (too sick to work), rarely buy clothes for myself (only when something needs replaced really aside from pants/socks type things) but those of us on tight budgets do still need clothes. Also while dd is into fashion she DOES also need simple basics like pants/socks/jeans/plain t-shirts/vest tops and as a teen is growing fast.
Newballsplease00 are you 17? No I don't want to shop on top shop - We aren't saying that! We also don't want top shop fashions COMPLETELY overtaking primark, supermarket clothes, m&s, next etc we (people over 30!) are allowed to wear new clothes too or is that a surprise to you?
I miss bhs and c&a
TaliZorah that's lovely but WAY beyond my price range.
Agreed TOTAL lack of conservative clothes although I'm not working I've friends that do and this is driving them mad! Also dd is wanting to find a part time job (to make her college/uni applications better, bit of experience/financial independance) CANNOT find a normal smart jacket ANYWHERE.
"Fashion is supposed to repel older people. That's how it's gone since clothes began." It's not supposed to repel the youngsters though - even my dd (age 16 size 8) is struggling to find things she likes.
Jesus! I wouldn't have worn those D&G jeans in the 90's! I'd have been so slated! Plus £4600?! My first car cost less - in 2003!!!
"So, given there has always been "fashion" there has also always been style, so you could be stylish with just a light dusting of fashion" exactly! I've found those who buy only based on fashion lack confidence they have style!
"Wear what you wear with confidence & screw what other people think." But this is what WE think what WE want. I don't want to wear glittery, frilly over embellished shite and I CERTAINLY don't want to wash/dry/attempt to iron the feckers - I hate ironing but thin fabrics crease worse! And ironing embellished shite is a total Pita!
"Can't we all get together and design a mumsnet clothing line called vipers clothing. The range will include:
No ripped jeans
No cold shouldered tops wtf?
No belly tops for the over 10 yr olds
No frilly bits in weird places
No lace up tops and bottoms" yes - see my first post at page 5 1.55.
Can I add no boots without toes? The whole fucking point of boots is to wear in bad weather!
I like the hush stuff - again too expensive.
Leggings I wear at home a lot, if I'm outta home under long line tops/dresses/tunics.