Have Next completely lost it?

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or is this actually fashionable?

www.next.co.uk/g5434s5#454851

Went to pick up some school uniform from a store yesterday and saw this There were other equally hideous items too. Wolf fleeces next?

I think that's better than their last two collections. Honestly they are so far off the mark for me I haven't bought anything from it in ages.

I like it tescos have got a kind of bomber jacket that's similar. I know it's not exactly high fashion it I quite like them

I've seen similar crap at Joules and Boden too, it's just dire.

I've been trying to find something nice in there to spend a gift card on but it's just all hideous at the moment. I honestly can't find one thing I like. And everything is embellished to the nth degree. It's like Per Una.

It's the late 80s/early 90s coming back, isn't it?

It's not what I would choose but not that awful.

Actually I bought two light cotton jumpers from Next this morn. And it's been a few years since I thought anything there was worth parting with cash for.

I like the embroidered jacket - there's loads of them around at the moment.

I would absolutely love a wolf jacket though - I'm predicting a comeback for fleeces with pictures. Maybe one with dolphins and moons and stars? Where can you buy them!?

My 18 yo DD has a black satin bomber from Zara embroidered like that - this one. It is lovely. Not so sure about it on the sweatshirt but i think a lot of young people might like it and could pull it off.

Lweji I think more like early 80s. That's the sort of thing my mum would have bought for me when I was about 10 or 11.

Better than what I spotted in new look

They have far worse things in there than that at the moment!!

I had a brochure arrive for a children's clothing company yesterday, never heard of them before and I shit you not, there was a boys shirt with similar embroidery but with a tiger in the middle and matching trousers, shirt was £65 and trousers £75. I think everywhere's gone mad this year. Except Mint Velvet, who are still riding the grey train.

it's not just the embroidery on that sweatshirt but the dull, unflattering shape of it.

Next, you'll have the Sweater Shop making a come back.

I personally wouldn't wear it but don't find it massively offensive. Embroidery is very on trend this season and so is the olive colour. I'm sure it would look great on a younger person who could style it up appropriately.

It reminds me of those Maharishi trousers from the 90s/00s. Japanese style embroidery on baggy khaki trousers. Except not as cool.

Not liked much in Next for years. Mind your haven't found many clothes I like anywhere for a long time!

It's not absolutely hideous, would it pass the 'If I found it in a skip (clean!) would I keep it and wear it' test? Probably not, unless I was doing some DIY at home or dying my hair or something.

It's not as bad as M and S. At least it's not trying to be 'avant garde'

My 16 yr old DD has a bomber jacket that colour and with embroidery like that...

I'm thinking maybe that is fashionable, just maybe in a different age bracket.

Looks Joulesy.

Everything in Next seems massively messed about with at the moment. I keep thinking I might have found something and then click on zoom only to find that actually the cropped jeans have a frayed hem, or the top is glittery or embroidered or backless or something.

Not finding anything nice anywhere at the moment. Except the places that always do their own thing like joules/fat face/white stuff/ Seasalt but even the colours this year are not my thing. Lots of yellow and green and orange.

Embroidery is very a la mode this season- Gucci inspired doncha know. That sweatshirt is on my wish list ☺️

Yuk that embroidered jumper is like something my auntie Pam would wear in the late eighties, with 'jogging' trousers, large glasses and a tight perm.

I think the rules are, if you remembered it the first time it was out, you can't rock it the second time.

I like it. It looks fine to me.

I had a sweatshirt that was something like that in the early 80s - pink with flowers and butterflies embroidered across the front.