We haven't poked fun at M&S for ages

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I'll start

Abstract indeed. The black mix is particularly...um...abstract.

That is stunning. Is the new Per Una knitwear range avaiable? (I have to buy Per Una jeans as they fit me )

wow that is amazing... do the buyers actually look at what they are purchasing?

I love these threads - off to find something to point and laugh at

jesus effing christ. i nearly bought something for me and not dd in marks the other day. not this 'creation' obviously but still feel like i had a lucky escape!

Not overly patterned at all - oh no

Aaah, the stench of polyester.

Mumsy is the word

You just have to have it lol

Lima- that skirt is neither knee length nor fashionable!

I'm speechless. With laughter? With horror? Who knows? The model deserved hardship pay for being forced to grin like a ninny while wearing that. Not even my 92 year old great aunt would be seen in public in that.

Monty I think that one was voted the winner of most horrific item in a thread earlier this year

And its still there!?

They need a new skirt designer

Meglet... they actually describe that Paisley skirt as 'fashionable'

God M&S is dire.

Snappy name

Someone posted a link the other day to some 'treggings' which were just ski pants. V bad. :)

At least they didn't call them fashionable .

I think you're all being so harsh!

Their Indigo collection is lovely

if you still think it's 1996

It really is something about the skirts

Per Una has always been about floaty not-quite-but-nearly-old-lady skirts, hasn't it?

I work with someone who loves their skirts, so just know I'm going to be seeing these awful things floating around my office in coming months.

My mum would like a lot of that Per Una stuff.

She likes patterns and bright colours.

She has dementia though. What is M&S designers/buyers excuse.

I work with someone who also laps up these naffola skirts and thinks she's on the cutting edge of fashion. She's 29.

Think Per Una has totally lost its way - assuming it originally had one,in addition to trying to induce people to buy naff cardies as modelled by Twiggy. Always find it impossible to imagine their target audience ... Stunned that 29 year olds buy it.

A nice young M and S woman asked me the other day when I was moaning about the choice in our local M and S whether I liked Indigo - I hate it, but have never been able to formulate why quite as neatly as arseandoldlace has done. In fact, it also reminds me of the 70s, but not as much fun.

What about Portfolio - what is that about - all that nasty shiny polyester ??? Have a horrible feeling it's aimed at people in my age group (50+ and beyond) ...

Can occasionally find a good casual piece in Autograph with lots of looking.

Per una skirts actually make me feel a bit nauseaous when I go in M&S. Is everything still green and/or cerise this year, with embellishments thrown on?