Which brands/designers/shops do other people seem to really rate but you don't like, and why?

[Greenmug]

Can be clothing, bags, shoes anything. Just being nosy really!

[Elsiequadrille]

Next, Primark, River Island etc etc

[polyhymnia]

• Anything obviously branded including Mulberry which us also dull
  

• horrendous bling like Michael Kors bags
  

• Radley - obviously!
  

• Clark's. Nothing from there has ever looked right or good enough quality on me.
  

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Cath Kidston and Orla Kiely - theme park stuff.

• anywhere where materials v obviously cheap-looking, eg H and M, some Next
  

• 'specialist' plus size retailers, eg Wvans or Sim

[polyhymnia]

Sorry - phone went mad!

... Evans or Simply Be which mostly look cheap and nasty.

• Joules - copy of Boden which doesn't quite come off for me.
  

Think most of the rest of my hates are so widely shared here they don't really count - eg, Per Una, Hotter.

[Apatite1]

I buy nice things from everywhere, preferring good quality fabrics so tend to be higher end high street and smaller shops. I would never write off an entire shop and I've found good stuff in unexpected places.

[areyoutheregoditsmemargaret]

Don't like H&M at all, or Cos, Whistles, French Connection, Karen Millen.

LOVE Zara

Obviously detest M&S but that is a given these days.

[TheArticFunky]

Le Creuset. I have casserole dishes that I paid £10 each for 20 years ago they are still going strong and look just as good.

[UterusUterusGhali]

If we're talking about homewares; Brabantina. (Sp?)
Supposed to be well built. It ain't.

[flowery]

Anything which can be described as "fun".

Any shop where they talk about "pieces", or use the fashion singular, "trouser", "jean" etc

[staticdust]

Boden awful,
Zara only good for women with pre-pubescent boy shaped body,
Joules, Cath Kidston yawn,yawn...
Next utter rubbish,
Karen Millen too tarty, tits on the table type dresses, no class.
I am too old for Topshop, Reiss, H&M.

Love DVF, Jeager, Issa, Mint Velvet, Ghost NW3 Hobbs, Temperly,
not cheap, but I tend to shop for very few key pieces for a season and usually during sale.
All my handbags are vintage, charity shop bought, some shoes too.

[Rooners]

Oh Gosh yes Brabantia. I bought one of their laundry bins a couple of years ago - it was awful.

Chrome flimsy outside bit, that dented at the slightest thing and an inner bag that had NO HANDLES.

How are you meant to lift a sack of washing with no handles?? It was like trying to move someone who was unconscious.

[TheWomanWithTheMysteriousLump]

Original style Ugg Boots actually revolt me, because I find myself thinking about what would happen to them if it rains - the dirt, and the smell. It borders on OCD. But I really fancy the new style ones with leather outers.

I agree about the horror of LV and anything else over-branded. But plain Radley bags are perfectly nice I think - you can just take off the doggy tag and give it to a small child.

I still love GAP, which dominates my wardrobe, but I am baffled by the logo'd tops, and infuriated by their pricing policy. Just sell the sodding clothes at 70% of the price! Don't faff around with vouchers for 25% of the time, and have your shops empty for the remaining days.

In theory I should like Whistles but I never seem to see anything I fancy in there. I love Ted Baker and would wear practically all of it apart from the plastic shoes, but am too old for their skirt lengths and too much of a cheapskate to buy full price.

I mostly wear Jigsaw at work and GAP / very selective H&M / charity shops at home. In a bit of a shocker I've just bought a jumper from M&S which must be the first piece of outerwear I've bought there for a decade.