M&S blames poor clothes sales on the weather

[GobblersKnob]

Okay, you keep telling yourself that, just the bad weather......

hahahaha!

After seeing your pinboard, DonaAna, I feel a shopping trip coming on!!

Outnet, you are welcome to send me some store credit for each item sold ;)
And M&S, pm me if you'd like a new creative director...

Can anyon elink to those penis leggings someone showed on here a couple of weeks ago? I think thye should go into DonaAna's online emporium!

M&S, your sales are poor as your clothes are utter shite.

Season after season its got worse and worse.....Your buyers should all be sacked imo.

Sexy, I live in Italy and every tourist souvenir stall here has these - won't pin them, don't want to lose my Pin account, but wouldn't they freshen up the M&S underwear section?

Oh Dona those are brilliant! A work of art

Ha ha!

Oooh can anyone on this thread tell me where the hell to buy my cotton knickers, bras and vests since I can no longer trust M&S (quality is now terrible and basically what domesticslattern said!)

My advice to M & S forget clothes you clearly have no idea, I look at Twiggy modelling those hideous ugly clothes and imagine she can't wait to get them off,concentrate on what you do best, food, can't you see your stand alone food only stores do brilliantly that's what we want your food not your old fashioned, aging clothes ( my Mom is in her 80's and she has given up on M & S as she finds the clothes a bit 'fuddy duddy')

Tesco and sainsburys are good for basic knickers

I went shopping to my local high street on Sat hoping to spend my precious pennies and came home with 1 white t-shirt for work. And a pack of hair bobbles.

I could find nothing I liked or looked halfway decent or fitted.

Love those Michaelangelo pants Dona - - !!!!!

1. too much polyester
2. fit-and-flare is not for everyones body
3. their maternity bras are crap. take a look at Hot Milk for inspiration
4. So much of their nightwear would be viewed as frumpy by the most ragged octogenarian
5. somewhere, i have a waist. it is their job to show it off cut wise, without also highlighting the rotunditude surrounding it.
6. good natural fibre trousers i want. where are they?
7. why doesn't the per una range change?

Edgar re no.4 in your list, my neighbour is 96 and can't find anything to wear in M&S! She says everything is horrible. I just don't understand how buyer after buyer just cannot get anything right. It's incredible. And I agree how come they are still into flouncy, gypsy skirt things that went out about 5 years ago.

I was on a wedding outfit search today and before I resorted to forking out a small fortune in L K Bennet/Coast/House of Fraser etc, went into M&S just to see what they had and tried on a black body-con number. It looked vile and nasty. It was almost a relief to return to L K and put on something that emphasised my good parts and skimmed over the bad.

Ah yes, the weather. It was obviously sunny in Next.

M&S makes me ache. I go in to buy a pair of navy trousers. Why do I have to go to check in 95 different places in store to see if there are any?
Why are all the racks so close together so I can't actually see the merchandise? Why is every single item of clothing you have in stock have to be on the rack at the same time, so I have to shuffle through 300 pairs of trousers to find you have no 14's. Of course you have no 14's, it's a really outlandish size after all, unlike your size 22's.

All this in a massive, new m&s.

They have got the basics wrong. M&S styles, fabrics and colours are cheap and nasty, the sizing is strange, yet the prices aren't cheap. A month ago I went into M&S looking for some reasonable quality plainish t-shirts, a pretty skirt and a cotton summer dress. I found (and bought) them elsewhere.

My Mum says the clothes are too 'old' for her and she's in her 70s! My DH can't find any decent work shirts there, as the colours are mostly wrong. The only shirt he bought there recently had to be returned as it creased beyond belief and looked awful.

If it wasn't for their food, which remains good quality, M&S would have gone under a long time ago.

(I love your crab cakes though)

Dear M&S Folks

Less psychedelic polyester and frills.

More PLAIN, well cut, good quality wardrobe basics (cotton, silk, viscose).

Good quality t-shirts (without silly wide necks that you can't wear a bra with). The Heattech range is great though, lovely narrow practical scoop necks too.

Ta

I second sainos Knicks, well fitting and even pretty!

I went into M&S the other day, and thought 'Nope, I'm still too young to shop in here."

The styles are all a bit old and saggy and definitely designed with the over-65s in mind. There is nothing in there that I could even begin to wear without someone coming up and asking me sympathetically if I'm feeling alright.

And I am really quite conservative - there isn't anything racy or daring about me, sadly. But I'm still a good 20 years too young to shop at M&S for clothes.

And bras in large cup sizes... okay, i accept that my size (32j) is not the most common, but you would think they would have a couple in the size out of the huge lingerie section the closest i could find was 34j and non-wired. Now, why the fuck would someone with huge norks be wanting a non-wired bra????? So instead I have to spend a small fortune at bravissimo. And why did you successive "trained bra fitters" measure me as a 36G, giving me that lovely, droopy double-boob effect?

And second the point about the pants- was looking for a pack of black cotton pants with a lace trim, could only get mix of 2 black and 3 white, and I never wear white pants. Of course you could get loads of different styles of polyster pants which ride up your arse (brazillians, i'm looking at you here.......).

Ah, just looked at the twiggy collection for the first time- what on earth are these all about???

snakeskin

abstract

skirt dress

When the dresses make the models look frumpy, you are onto a loser.

Edgar, HotMilk have really gone off (as it were). Ordered a bra/knicker combo a few months ago and was both distressed and alarmed at the polyester tacky tat that arrived. I even emailed to tell them so.

M and S just cant get the basics right. They aim their gear at pensioners by the looks of things (except my 68yo mum won't shop there!) yet sell t-shirts that stop just above my belly button. I've had 4 kids, no-one wants to see it! Oh yeah, their bra fitters are crap can't fit bras very well. And you have to make an appointment to do so

You try finding (a) something you like in M&S and (b) try finding it in a size 8. Is remarkably difficult.

You work through all the mountains of clothes that are badly displayed and designed for the over-65s. Then you find a fairly bland but okay swimming costume. You think 'Eureka, perhaps I haven't actually wasted the previous hour of my life' and start looking for a size 8. Then mysteriously you find the following sizes of the garment in question:

1x size 10
2x size 16 (note the complete absence of sizes 12 and 14)
1x size 18
14x size 20
3x size 22

It makes you want to tip the garment rail over and scream hysterically.

Quite apart from the clothes being dreadful, it's an awful shopping experience, don't you think? The clothes are all crammed together anyhow and there is nothing that matches or tones with anything. If you found an acceptable skirt, there's no chance of finding a t-shirt that might actually go with it.

And who in GOD's NAME actually wears polyester blouses nowadays? Who? And why are M&S designing all their clothes for them?

And shapeless skirts. Why???? I mean why design a skirt with no discernible waist, that hangs straight down, in a garish and ill-assorted colours?

In short, what I want to know is, WHY ARE M&S CLOTHES SO SHIT?