Can I have a prize for the worst dress seen so far this spring

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I stood in the entrance of M&S for 5 minutes this morning just trying to imagine anyone who this would suit.
It's polyester as well so you couldn't even say it would be good in a heatwave.
www.marksandspencer.com/tie-back-flared-sleeve-tunic-dress/p/p22507211?image=SD_01_T42_2835_A0_X_EC_90&color=PINK&prevPage=plp&pdpredirect

M&S gets so many products hideously wrong

It's a gift, Olenna

The model here has clearly just given up all hope: www.oaknyc.com/64600black.html

Olenna Very similar but dark brown with big beige flowers on. And the fabric was very stiff, almost curtain like, so the gathers hung badly

My mum used to be M&S's biggest fan, her ability to visit a new place and immediately find her way to M&S was legendary. As was her inability to find her way out again. Even she has given up hope of finding anything she likes there.

We now play a game "spot what will be in the sales". This dress is a definite contender!!

Last autumn their kids wear featured this beauty.

The designer in lemur's link is Hope, which is ironic as the model has clearly given up all theirs...

the thing about this dress and some of M&S's other 'statement'ier ones is that I just can't imagine the real life setting in which you'd wear it. Flouncing into a bar for drinks with friends and knocking over two glasses of wine every time you made a sudden gesture. Getting goosepimples on the walk from the Tube because no coat in the world will go over those sleeves. Standing with your arms at a 45 degree angle from your body at all times because the material alone is making you sweat like a horse, even though you're moving so little your Fitbit thinks you're asleep.

Absolutely.
Somebody somewhere in M&S has spectacularly and completely lost the plot! I walked through my local one recently and was incredulous at the frills and flounces and horrible colours.
Another here who mourns for simpler times...

A 'noughties revival'? aren't people still simply wearing clothes they bought in the noughties (Unless sapphire yearns for Edwardian)

Errol I think most of the things I own are from the noughties, though an Edwardian revival would be fab. I was thinking along the lines of the 90s revival we had, so maybe it's time for the next lot. I need some bootcut jeans and a hoody...

Lemur

Just looking at the misery in her face has cast me into a slough of despond . . . . .

M&S really don't want people dipping into their 00s wardrobes, because lots of us have still got the St Michaels originals and they're a LOT better quality that the current M&S versions...

WTF Alexa slip dresses

My mother would have been 100 years old this year.
Are M&S honouring this fact by resurrecting all her clothes from the charity shop?

I must admit to having worn a brown floor length dress, a la Margo. but it had a very plunging neckline 😊

Like a pp, I was all flares, platform soles, capes, with a nice shirt and skirt for work in the office.
Either a cloche hat or a large floppy brim.
Farrah Fawcett Major hair, Biba make up

I remember calling for a friend in 1974 wearing,
A black fitted dress, low neck, just below the knee, with a large purple appliqué star on the front.
Purple tights with black knee length boots.
Black suede bag with fringes
I had a veil of long blonde hair, held back either side of my face by silver and diameter stars.
My makeup , deep wine cherub lips and matching eyes
Enhanced by a row of silver stars across my cheek bones.
Covering it all (this was a village in the Welsh Valleys 😉), a deep wine cape from Marments in Cardiff!! Her mother said, You look like a witch, go and wash your face!

I have digressed sorry! I no longer look in mainstream shops as I am horrified by the poor quality. And the lack of acknowledgement that I have ample curves. I have stretch straight leg velvet jeggings from M&S that I love but their jeans or trousers just don't fit me at all.

(Oh and I would wear that purple star outfit today, my tastes haven't changed at all 😄)

www.lefashion.com/2015/09/1970s-street-style-photos.html

the thing about this dress and some of M&S's other 'statement'ier ones is that I just can't imagine the real life setting in which you'd wear it.

Pop a nice pinny on top and stout boots below and you have the perfect Amish barn raising party outfit.

Did none of you naysayers see Tuesday's Evening Standard? According to the deputy fashion editor, the pink number is one of the 7 best spring dresses.

I quote:

1. The millennial pink dress

There’s a lot to covet about this dress. Note the statement sleeve, the tie-neck and the waist-skimming cut. But the crowning glory of this M&S tunic is its unapologetic shade of pink — catnip for any millennial. As for whether or not the M&S pink dress will prove a contender to the legend that is THAT pink coat — or for that matter, Percy Pigs — is a matter for the tills to reveal.

So, now you know.

iamEarthymama - God I bet that looked amazing!

I honestly don't understand fashion any more. Each one of those dresses looks like it's been dragged out of a rural charity shop. One of them's a sun dress... with a grey sweatshirt underneath it. All modelled by surly young women apparently struggling with a bad migraine.

Maybe M&S paid for that feature in order to showcase the PercyPigFrock around even barmier examples so it would look wearable. The fact that the ES thinks it'll appeal 'to millenials' is probably telling.

M&S. Stop trying to appeal to millennials.

MrsWilbertonsWardrobe I do not know a single person who would wear any one of those dresses in the ES. Fashion writers do not live in the same universe as me

Evening Standard must be in on the joke to see what monstrosities they can get people to wear. All those best summer dresses are absolutely hideous.

The Guardian had this article a month ago and I swear there's nothing in it I would be seen dead in. www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2016/aug/18/prints-charming-10-of-the-best-summer-dresses-in-pictures?

What the fuck is it with all these fucking ruffles

I have ruffle rage

Oh, they're running with the "flattering sleeve" thing 🙃

www.marksandspencer.com/l/women/flattering-sleeves?intid=SIW_WWsection2_herocta1_1_img

Cold shoulder chef's whites anyone?

Cold shoulder chef's whites anyone?

That is truly awful bit
I met friends yesterday, and we all said the same.
No ruffles please, they get caught and drip in the washing up.
I no longer flounce round trendy wine bars, but do the school run. That means often a coat which ruffles get stuck in the sleeves.

Popped into Zara the other day and the entire shop is full of the weirdest ruffled and flutter sleeves. Just look at them, there's barely anything with normal sleeves
www.zara.com/uk/en/woman/tops/view-all-c719021.html

Even a young Helena Christiansen lookalike can't make this dress work (and what do you wear over it in the 350 days of the year in the UK when something else is needed?)