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!

Next, Primark, River Island etc etc

• 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Anything which can be described as "fun".

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

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.

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.

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.