Please suggest some places I should start getting clothes from!

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I’m increasingly disappointed with the clothes I buy from the following places:

Next - don’t fit very well and can be a bit, dull. And have started to fall apart after a few washes
ASOS - too ‘trendy’
Top shop/river island - ditto
H&M/New Look et al - not well made and a bit on the cheap side for me.

Where can I get good quality clothing, that doesn’t make me look 20 years older than I am (I’m mid 30s) and also doesn’t make me look like I am trying to relive my youth??

Please help

Uniqlo!

Agree with most listed. What I would say is you've reached the point where you need to take the mental leap to spend more on clothes. (Buying less things if necessary).

New Look / H&M / ASOS are cheap, and the quality is hard to look good in. But its such a jump up to the stylish but quality end of high street, its hard to make the adjustment about what you should be paying for a pair of trousers now. (If you've always paid £25ish, moving to paying £80 is hard!)

Those boots They'd certainly help with social distancing! Apart from that, there are some quite nice things.

Also, paying £££ is no guarantee of quality. Rixo, Kitri and other brands have their share of £200 polyester horrors.

Regular places I use include: Whistles, Jigsaw, Uniqlo, M&S, And/Or at John Lewis, some Boden. Also Mango, Zara.

Polyester horrors indeed, Dazzle.
I saw a nice skirt in Jigsaw last year, pricey, but it was100% polyester and felt awful.

Poetry

There is far too much polyester around these days.
I have recently bought lots of stuff from Jigsaw that is cotton/silk/linen/ lambswool/ merino/cashmere however :)

I think you can find really good pieces from lots of different and perhaps surprising places, but it takes time and a good eye.

To those who have mentioned Jigsaw, at the moment I would stay well away from ordering anything.

I ordered £££'s of clothes of which took ages to arrive, dreadful fabrics, cut terrible, items arrived covered in make up, items just shoved in plastic bags so were like chewed rags, at £110 for one blouse, and made in China as well dont think so. All went back, then the fun started trying to get refund, they have changed the refund to 14 working days, I was on almost a month when I finally received mine, this after email ringing them up chasing them for my money back, never again.

@Highforareason that's terrible. You'd think they'd have good customer service. I agree that you have to have a good eye for quality. I can't wait for clothes shops to reopen for that reason!

Christ alive. The boots. I want some kind of compensation for being steered towards the website 🤮

@Highforareason My experience in the last few months with Jigsaw has been very different to yours!

H&M Premium is a really good place to look for bargains and the fabrics are usually natural too. Have given up on Whistles - too much poly, Jigsaw - too frumpy...love Toast, Cos, Arket, Me&EM styling (although they can be too polyester or dry clean only -neither works) Uniqlo - look out for the designer collaborations - some have been my best buys. Kin John Lewis.
Finally those boots linked to earlier in the thread were really disturbing - it takes a lot to shock in fashion now doesn't it?

@Maireas, I still have items that are well over 20 years old from Jigsaw, virtually every item (19 in total) was made in China.

Trustpilot which I wish I had read before ordering, is full of the same complaints esp refunds.

@Orangeblossomscent, so glad I sent those frumpy clothes back

LK Bennett if you choose wisely as it can be a bit matronly.

I made a valiant effort to get past those boots and look at the rest of the site... but almost every model in every picture on the site is wearing the bloody things! I’ve been out off my lunch already

I know their refund window was lengthened because of the bargain clearance they have been having, the size of their operation, and social distancing. I returned a jacket recently - free return, RM 48 hr service, and had refund email at 12 working days after they'd received the item.
I had a missing item in an order, and e-mailed, then FB page, and got a reply (eventually) and they sourced and mailed out the replacement within 48hrs.

I think quality vs price has changed a great deal (for the worse) throughout clothing over the years. A huge proportion of manufacture has moved to China in all things. Jigsaw are still one of my favourites but I don't think it will survive.

La Redoute for most things. Brand Alley and EBay for cheap versions of other stuff too.

Hush
Mint velvet
Phase Eight
Marks and Spencer
TK Maxx
Silk Fred

Loads of these brands lose their initial impact and quality - I remember the buzz of Next opening - the coffee shop, I remember the things I bought in those first couple of years, they were expensive and beautiful - a pink tweed mini skirt, I even remember the price £45 - and that was more than 30 years ago and I wore it to death with various colours of dms - their shoes were to die for too. I remember strolling around Whistles dreaming of the day I could afford to shop there and now they send me a 20% off voucher and I can't find one thing I want to buy!

That Avavav website will give me nightmares, has anyone actually ever bought those boots!?

I'm after some plain fitted t shirts, preferably double layered or at least decent thickness of fabric. Any ideas where to look?

@Orangeblossomscent Couldn't agree more. Used to revere Whistles, L K Bennett, Hobbs, Jigsaw. Even Boden started off strong, and Joules used to be great for summer dresses. Style and quality has generally plummeted everywhere.

I've recently ordered some lovely things from good old m & s. A lovely tie dye top that was under a tenner and a fab chunky cardy. I get loads of clothes ads that I fall victim to on Instagram- but annoyingly it's always things I really like that I get spammed with so I keep buying them !

@DoubleTweenQueen I used to dream of getting a brilliant office job so I could shop in Hobbs - the clothes were so beautiful. I did buy my first suit there, but that was it. Everything looks so Tory Wife in the shires now. It's like Pritti Patel hell!