Shops you don't go to anymore...

[libertychick]

Decided today Hobbs is off my list of shops. I went in and tried on several dresses, skirts etc. It all looked exactly like everything I have ever bought before from them. It's a bugger as it suits me, is appropriate for where I work and v gratifying as in several items in there I fit a size 10 (and I am not a size 10) but if I keep shopping there I will look the same way for ever...

Any other shops people have decided to abandon?

Ooh also their shit looking but ace black lace tshirt

And google reveals that wit woman wearing something v similar www.google.co.uk/search?q=next+lace+skirt&hl=en&client=safari&tbo=d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=R5b5UNL3NvKb1AXEo4Ag&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=320&bih=356#i=1

New Look - I've tried; really I have. But no. And it makes me want to hurt people too so, being a pacifist, I cannot go in there!

I have bought a few things in jane norman They have some navy skinny velvet trousers atm I am tempted by. Wag that I am

I got lovely pencil sequin in there. Gun metal grey.
Plus wedge trainers in their limited range.

New look bad quality. Next i never go in just don't like.

Love this for eg m.newlook.com/mcs/publish/4923/76718?prodid=260842501&cat=cat410112&name=Bags%20&%20Purses

Mind you i do a lot online.

Oh god I get loads for the kids in Next mrsCB! And actually I did get those Dicker-alikes from NL, so I will concede that one (but that was only because you linked them MrsCB). Not Jane Norman though, no, never. I think you have to have an eye in places like NL, I just get blinded by ugly polyester shit and start to panic!

I bought stretch pleather leggings in JN 2 years ago. Everyone loved and they were great quality. Jn not all bad actually Have cashmere jumper from there and have had years. Those dolly birds like a bit of quality innit

I used to love the Principles shop as oppose to the Ben de Lisi concession in Debenhams. The stuff was reasonably priced and the quality wasn't bad. I still have quite a few bits. I was upset when the shop shut down.

I also quite like Laura Ashley but the shop locally disappeared and it has become very expensive. Again the quality isn't too bad.

New look best done online I think - although there is a big one at local retail park which I tend to pop into when doing m&s. In fact I love a retail park - nice rummage round trevor island, new look and outfit

I NEVER go into Primark or Next. The rest I generally give a try as you never know when their designers have been inspired and they've come out with something wearable.

There aren't many shops I couldn't find something in tbh.

I god I hate retail parks, the only thing I like at the local one is TK!

Matalan always a push.

Peacocks?

In days gone by I was always in Oasis, Warehouse, River Island, etc.

I don't even know where I shop now!!!!!! I am lost a pre-middle-age desert of retail drought.

MK one? Bay trading?

Have only been to matalan once and it smelt funny.

We don't have peacocks.

Even BHS has cheapy swim accessories. Like cotton kaftan throw ins and mini stretch beach skirts

I think Hobbs is dull. Never bought anything there.

I try to shop in the best places I can afford (which isn't too much these days!) or the sales, but as others have said, I can find something I like in most shops, just not necessarily full outfits.

I don't believe that clothes need to last forever though, don't mind some polyester if that's what I can afford. If it lasts one season, that's fine, I will be bored of it then anyway and want something new!

I agree about jumble sale shops - I won't bother looking in primark or tk maxx but will go to New Look and H&M if it's at a quiet time!

I love bhs. Friend bought black velvet cocktail dress for a tenner I couldn't believe it but it did look good on her

Navy simone top from hobbs has been great. And found that via shopstyle as not a shop I'd generally go in.