that awful pink m&s dress...

[Bleurghghghgh]

Is now haunting me via ads, with additional horrific items! Thanks MN!

Please tell me someone else just got an email from M&S with a picture of The Pink Dress next to the caption "wear your heart on your very flattering sleeve" ?!

Fleur34

Yes! Just as I'd finished reading this thread lol

Here is what Vogue had to say about it!

In addition to easy to wear earth tones, M&S has scored on spring’s two big colour stories, yellow and fuchsia. The former worked into a beachy holiday dress and elsewhere as a background to floral prints (a cleverer and far easier way to break the hue into women’s wardrobes) and the latter, in a simple fluted sleeve sheath that has something of Roksanda or Delpozo about it. Statement sleeves were a recurring theme, frilled, tiered, and fluted, they came every which way. Some will prove trickier to wear than others, but all will look enticing on mannequins.

I've no idea what they're talking about. And it looks shite on the mannequin too.

Gingernaut you are my new favourite mumsnetter.

We need a hideous dress thread. I'm not near an m&s. ☹️

It sure does Sharon and it looks just as shite on the 'quirkygirl' page as well, safety pin or no safety pin.

Placemarking

Fantastic thread!

That styling effort isn't great: you can see the outline of her bra and it also looks creased from the front and there's definitely a lot of hoicking up from the back.

OMG! M&S have now emailed me a picture of the cursed thing. I guess I've brought this on myself by gawping at it.

I've just been into town and specifically went into M&S to see this dress in the flesh as it were.

It really is as gopping as it looks isn't it?

And as for the fabric, I could feel my statically charged hair standing on end just by being within a metre of the dress.

Surely those reviews are planted?

I am so going to call into the shopping centre to see it for myself. Until then I won't quite believe it exists

The yellow dress looks as though it could be quite nice on some (its the sort of style I'd have loved when I was young, late 70s) on quirkygirl, if it wasn't yellow. Look at the black and white photo and imagine it in maybe a nice darkish blue, or even pink (but deep rose, not germolene/peptobismol/bubblegum).

Do any adults ever look good in yellow?

Boop - honestly, in this case blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.

Yes, I've just got the dreaded email featuring the pink horror too.

I'm going to try it on this week. I think the sizes are too generous though. Even the eight is a bit like a sail.

It's front and centre in my back of beyond rural M&S. When I went in today for suncream, customers were literally edging round the mannequin, staring in confusion at its lurid pinkitude. I also watched one lady pick up a blouse, shake it at her friend so the ruffles ruffled, then the pair of them laughed like drains, and she put it back.

M&S management has been half-listening to the perpetual feedback they alone of all the nation's shops get for free, but tuned out everything apart from, 'yadda yadda yadda SLEEVES, PLEASE yadda yadda yadda, SLEEVES, yadda yadda Percy Pig.' This is what we get. More sleeves than we can handle.

I keep seeing it in every M&S I go in

I think it's to ward off shoplifters.

loving this thread

I'm in town tomorrow. If I have time I'm willing to try it in.

Sleeves in the colour of Percy Pig, even.

And WTF is it with sleeves this season?! You either get no sleeves or valance sheets pinned to your shoulders.

Having had a trawl round the Bullring, Next has some corkers.

The "Tailoring" range includes a fuchsia pink suit (seperate jacket and trousers) and a mainly green palm print dress with golden lurex.

I am in central London and that hideous pink dress is right at the front on display by the main door. I saw it today, did a double take, then thought I should post a picture of that on MN. But you lot were waaaay ahead.

That must be some good shit the M&S buyers are smoking.

Even I, the most sartorially challenged person you will ever meet, did a double-take when I saw that monstrosity in the window of my local M&S. My first thought was "how the hell have M&S not gone bankrupt? Surely there is no amount of profit from their food sales which could conceivably counterbalance that?"

Imagine if you actually bought that dress and wore it to a wedding/party and someone else was wearing it too!!