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white stuff- is it shite?

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FiftyShadesOfGreen4205 · 07/07/2014 21:01

I received a white stuff voucher for my birthday a few months back and picked up a cardigan and a scarf for £50. The cardigan was almost £40 and after about ten washes (30° cycle) looks like absolute shit. I have tops from primark that have worn better. Is this common with their stuff or did I just pick up a duff item?

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PuppyMonkey · 08/07/2014 17:15

I do like some White Stuff stuff but their tops are boggers for getting those annoying little pin prick holes around the front, near the bottom. Really annoys me , so I avoid them now .

FFSFFS · 08/07/2014 17:17

I'm wearing a Shite Stuff teeshirt that's two weeks old. It has a hole in it already . I have M and Co teeshirts that I wear for sports, DIY and gardening that are centuries old that don't

FFSFFS · 08/07/2014 17:28

The photographic evidence.

It actually only a little hole but it's still irritating.

FFSFFS · 08/07/2014 17:30

Why do I get these holes? I don't wear a belt and I can't think of. Any reason that they appear. They tend to be at the centre and bottom half of the tee shirt

Greengardenpixie · 08/07/2014 18:13

It looks like a clothes moth hole tbh. I get them from time to time and they love white stuff cotton tshirts!!! Im NOT joking!

alemci · 08/07/2014 18:14

yes I had a fish t-shirt I really liked and it went into a hole, a tunic did as well. Mine are on the back of the garment.

Plus a shirt I wore twice ended up with a hole by the label which was a feature on the front of the shirt but luckily I swapped it for a replica which was ok.

My M&S t-shirts from 5 years' ago are better quality and still going. The cotton is too thin and inferior I think.

cheeseismydownfall · 08/07/2014 20:19

I used to love White Stuff (going back 6-7 years here I guess). I would go in twice a year and have a splurge, and I loved how everything I bought always went together so beautifully in different combinations. I can't remember having any particular problems with quality. But of late I think their quality is shocking. Bought three tunic tops in the spring - two of them went in to holes at the seams on the first time I wore them. To their credit they gave me a full refund on both with no quibbling (perhaps they know the quality is shite now?) but I won't buy from them again.

GretchenWiener · 08/07/2014 20:20

its dull cliche boring

cheeseismydownfall · 08/07/2014 20:23

PS for those asking about the holes in the front of clothes - do you have granite / quartz kitchen worktops? If so you can be pretty sure that this is why. I was going crazy trying to work out why all my clothes were developing these little holes within days of wearing them. A bit of Googling (it is a common complaint) led to the worktop theory, and we had indeed just moved to a house with quartz worktops. Now I just make a conscious effort not to lean against the worktop in the kitchen and I have stopped getting the holes.

Chewbecca · 08/07/2014 22:15

I don't mind a bit of white stuff, the colours suit me and some fabrics are nice, but agree the quality is not always good.

What I am shocked at is that you washed a cardi 10x in a few months. Given a cardi is not against the body, I hardly ever wash mine at all.

I'd do less washing if I were you & your clothes will last longer if smellier

gd1976 · 08/07/2014 22:21

Appalling quality, can't believe they can get away with it at NOT cheap prices!

LeoandBoosmum · 09/07/2014 02:28

Their leggings and vests are great quality.

Floisme · 09/07/2014 07:04

I remember when they were a mail order business with just a couple of shops in Cornwall and the quality was great. The rot set in when they started expanding.

Greengardenpixie · 09/07/2014 12:50

Chewbecca thats what i do. Usually i dont tend to wash knitwear that much unless its against my skin and with me its usually cardigans anyway. Skirts i usually wear every now and again so dont tend to wash them after one wear unless its stained, visibly dirty.. but dresses i wash everytime.

Greengardenpixie · 09/07/2014 12:52

I also have a blouse that i need to return that has a hole in the seam too. They have said that they will give me a refund on return of the item. You need to be within 6 months though. { although tbh, i think you could argue that really}

alemci · 09/07/2014 13:26

My holes were on the back of the clothes and I have laminate and usually wear an apron in the kitchen.

It is just shoddy quality and perhaps we should all email them to improve the quality.

clippityclop · 09/07/2014 16:36

I agree with Cheese, used to be a big fan but the quality has gone down and where I used to be able to get tops, dresses to suit my hourglass shape it's all droopy straight up and down now. I did, however, get a fine cord mini skirt and a jersey dress with a belt last autumn but nothing this year. The colours are great but no use if the cut makes me look like a sack of spuds. Can someone forward this thread to their customer service team?

alemci · 09/07/2014 16:44

It would be good if those at mumsnet towers started to put pressure on some of these manufacturers to up their game so things don't go into holes etc.

LeoandBoosmum · 09/07/2014 16:56

What causes those little holes? I bought a striped breton from John Lewis last year for thirty quid and wore it once, washed it, and found one of these little holes right in the front of it the next time I wore it. I blamed it on the washing machine - because it had happened with a couple of newish Boden tees too... I didn't return any for this reason... Now, reading this thread, I am wondering if it's a sign of poor quality and I should have returned. Too late now but if I have the same problem with anything else I'm wondering if I should return (or would I get laughed out of the store)? I've not had this issue with the limited things I have from WS but the tops I have look a fair bit thicker than the one in the pic posted further up the thread (come to think of it, all the tops it's happened to have been those sheer cotton types)... Hmmm...

Lurleene · 09/07/2014 17:12

I too have stopped buying White Stuff t-shirts cos of the holes and I HAVE WITNESSED ONE APPEARING! Dun Dun Dun!

I was wearing a White Stuff top for the very first time and it developed holes. I was sat on the sofa and looked down to see a hole appear in my top when I moved, just as it rubbed against the pointy corner of my jeans above the fly button.

True story.

I never buy anything T-shirty from there anymore, it is too expensive to risk it. You can never repair the buggers so the top is ruined.

PuppyMonkey · 10/07/2014 11:43

The holes seem to appear on certain types of very thin cotton type material - I have a feel of the material first these days and if it has that tell-tale, sort of slimy texture (can't quite explain what I mean), I don't buy. White Stuff tops are all like it.

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