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

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Cantusethatname · 02/05/2017 13:11

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

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SapphireSeptember · 03/05/2017 03:04

And this is why I buy most of my clothes second hand or online from alternative shops. As an aside, I love floaty sleeves of the witchy variety, (fond memories of the noughties when I was a teenager and starting out as a babybat Goth.)

I like the dress Yellowbird posted, and this top. www.marksandspencer.com/v-back-flared-cuff-sleeve-t-shirt/p/p22513197?mfPartNumber=T435384T&carousel=FUNH_RR
It looks like something Amy Lee would have worn in 2003. And yes, I can't wait for the noughties revival, it'll happen soon.

I don't mind some of the other revival stuff, last year I got myself an outfit that looked a bit 1960s-ish, but the pieces mix with other stuff I already owned, (Peacock's top, TU skirt, TU boots, all worn quite a few times.) But right now the shops have nothing I want to wear, which is good for my bank balance at least.

nuttymango · 03/05/2017 03:24

WTF? It'd even look bad as one of those 1970s dolls that cover the toilet roll.

I'm very glad that I can't afford to shop in M&S.

nuttymango · 03/05/2017 03:27

I hate www.victoriabeckham.com/pre-ss17-drvv-454-royal-blue.html?utm_source=google_shopping&gclid=CIzYxPLV0tMCFYQK0wodvQkHdg&gclsrc=aw.ds

Women are women and don't need to wear something that positions them as little girl lost (the model's expression, size and general style does that) wearing a dress that is reminiscent of school summer dresses. The M&S one is better; at least it just shrieks bad design rather than belittling women.

ErrolTheDragon · 03/05/2017 07:06

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

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 03/05/2017 07:21

Mmmm germolene pink, always flattering.

RoseGoldProsecco · 03/05/2017 08:19

I see your pink nightie and raise you this hospital gown offering from H&M:

m2.hm.com/m/en_gb/productpage.0479519003.html#Blue/Narrow%20striped

awaynboilyurheid · 03/05/2017 08:34

Victoria Beckham one looks like prison wear or mental hospital circa 1950's.

HappyFlappy · 03/05/2017 09:22

two out of three reviewers have given it five stars

Is this the sort of thing Magpie?

"As an anti-chat-up device this dress has no equal. Blokes who have been making my life a misery , by following me round the office, drooling, are now starting to dive into cupboards at my approach. Life is so much pleasanter. Thank you M&S"

"We have been bothered with rows trying to devour our baby guinea pigs. It was murder. I bought this dress in the largest size, and hung it on the washing line. The crows are all sitting clustered on the shed roof, huddled together in terror. There are also five cats and a milkman up there. All of them are crying. Our guinea piggies are safe, but we haven't had any cornflakes for three days . . . "

"My MIL is a narcissistic interfering old baggage with no sense of taste. Nothing I do is tight in her beady little eyes. I chose this stylish little number as a gift for her birthday. She loves it! (Huzzah! I did something right!) However, the fact that she is prepared to go out in public in it has meant that at last the rest of the family can see just haw bring bloody mad the old bat it, and it has greatly reduced her malevolent influence over us all. Well done, M&S!"

These may all be genuine reviews, you know.

HappyFlappy · 03/05/2017 09:24

Excuse typos - the worst is *bring bloody mad - this should of course be BARKING bloody mad

Apologie

HappyFlappy · 03/05/2017 09:27

germolene pink, always flattering

Grin Oh Fuckery. How I love you!
HappyFlappy · 03/05/2017 09:28

Victoria Beckham one looks like prison wear or mental hospital circa 1950's.

And the model's expression is that of a woman who knows that now she is associated with "that dress", she will never work in the fashion industry again - even sweeping up threads of cotton in a sweatshop.

Papergirl1968 · 03/05/2017 12:44

Now I keep getting ads for these M&S monstrosities popping up on my Mumsnet pages!

YouWouldntLetItLie · 03/05/2017 13:08

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.

Worst of all, everyone staring and saying, 'Oh, wow, you're wearing that dress from M&S!' everywhere you go.

I liked M&S when it did discreetly indispensable wardrobe saviours like the shantung mules in a hundred colours, and the long swishy black skirts of yesteryear. Sob.

HappyFlappy · 03/05/2017 14:29

I liked M&S when it did discreetly indispensable wardrobe saviours like the shantung mules in a hundred colours, and the long swishy black skirts of yesteryear. Sob.

There now, Letitlie, there now.

It's natural to grieve. Time is a great healer, my dear.

noeffingidea · 03/05/2017 15:53

I spotted this in the window of my local M+S today. I felt compelled to pop in for a laugh look. Just as hideous in real life.
I wonder if anyone will see anyone wearing this in real life this summer, at a wedding or something. Who could keep a straight face if they did? Not me, thats for sure. Grin

OlennasWimple · 03/05/2017 16:00

This elasticated waisted beauty came up when I was looking for something else on the M&S website.

How can that lovely model look so dumpy in it??

Oldraver · 03/05/2017 16:09

I was picking up something in M+S last year and there was a model nearby with the most hideous dress.

Think (badly) tiered maxi dress with tiered gathering also on the sleeves in brown and beige 70's flowery pattern

Very, very Margot...

Westfacing · 03/05/2017 16:11

I emitted an involuntary snort/laugh on opening that link Grin It's just so awful that it took me by surprise.

The young, very tall and lovely model is having a hard time with it - I keep going back to look, particularly the photo with the shoes!

Batghee · 03/05/2017 16:14

nuttymango haha I actually love that dress

SafeWord · 03/05/2017 16:16

I like it.

rightwhine · 03/05/2017 16:18

The other dresses are bad - very bad, but not a patch on the pink monstrosity.

OlennasWimple · 03/05/2017 16:22

How about this one?

Thing is, every shop gets one or two products hideously wrong, and is cursed with trying to shift lime green hotpants at the end of the season. But M&S gets so many products hideously wrong! Not just a bit out, such that a bit of DIY sewing to take in a tuck here and shorten the hem there will make it flattering. Just completely, the buying team must have been on acid type awful

JoffreyBaratheon · 03/05/2017 16:28

Olennas that one looks like someone wearing some kind of weird medical contraption shoulder brace accidentally bumped into a hospital curtain and got it caught round them.

HappyFlappy · 03/05/2017 16:30

How can that lovely model look so dumpy in it??

That's what distinguishes the professional from the amateur, Olenna Grin