Which brands do you no longer buy (because of price)

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Mine are -
Boden - gone stupidly expensive
Fat face - £50+ now for a cardigan £40+ for tops

White stuff - suddenly shot up in price
Clarks shoes

Clarks and Fat Face for me too. They have shot up in price.

Boden. £90 for an acrylic jumper is too much. Dresses are £100+

I'm back at M&S after a long time. I find them good for plain basics, good price and good quality.

Agree with Boden, prices are getting silly. I only buy with a good discount code which luckily come up a lot!

Sweaty Betty, I’ll only buy in the sale too now as I know everything comes down so much.

Heinz

Sezane: used to be my absolute favourite and juuuuuust about affordable but they’ve lost their way lately (too many synthetics - I’m not paying £100+ for a polyester blend cardigan) and they put up their prices just as the quality was going down 🙄

I’m increasingly buying second hand generally, for quality and price reasons!

Baukjen has gone silly pricing

Jigsaw too

hush as well

i have started shopping at H&M again 😁

Honestly, most of my previous usual go tos. Oasis and Warehouse, quality went down hill but price shot up. Ditto Joules, ditto TopShop and to some extent ditto SilkFred own brand. I find now it's really hard to find good quality that's not ridiculously priced, so I tend to only buy in the sale from 'better' brands, and even then it's still more than I'd usually want to pay! 🤦🏻‍♀️

Anything in Fenwick's. I can't afford to shop there now and I am not poor by any means.

Places like GAP that have massive reductions, you just wait for the next week for it to be on sale. Boden and Clarks just don’t work for me. Clothing looks ok but it’s always an odd pattern or the material isn’t great. I saw a lovely sweater skirt but the material was so cheap I instantly disliked it. Clark’s shoes are just frumpy on me. I’m sure they are lovely on other people feet!

I have to wear a suit for work. I really do not have much choice. Its £500-600 or £800-1000 for a dress suit. I don’t like wearing skirts and I’m not wearing trouser suits as I ruin the knees in them quickly. The fashion for over 40 is terrible with flowerly, floaty dresses at midi length. I ended up buying a dress and jacket at LK Bennet for £550 because I had nothing to wear. When I come home from work I close the door and strip off to prevent the kids from staining my outfit. I’m hoping jigsaw expands their suits again. Nothing has come up in the sale.

Mulberry
Penhaligon
L'occitane
Body Shop

I’m really hoping Fatface change up their marketing strategy and do more offers during the year. Their clothes have become far too expensive!

Mint Velvet always used to be expensive but now it’s just crazy expensive for polyester!!

I'm looking at alternatives to what I get from body shop. But it's finding it and not wasting money in the process as it's not quite right for whatever reason

Boden. High prices, made worse by being in the EU so the prices are even higher. I don't mind too much though as their stuff is awful these days.

Boden and Hush
I agree with M&S

Beauty wise I used to use only Clinique but forgot my toiletries on holiday and brought some Superdrug naturally radiant for the week. It’s honestly the nicest skincare I have ever used and my skin looks so good for switching. Not to mention the small fortune I have saved!

White Stuff - had the eureka moment in the summer when dh wanted some new shorts, and was walking past White Stuff store at the time, and wandered in. If I recall correctly, they were £50 each. Brought two pairs for less than that from Next which has serviced him well all summer in a similar style.

I really don't know where to shop anymore, but not Boden. I seem to get a lot from Sainsbury's!

I only buy shoes from Clark's because they are one of the few people who to a women's size 9.

Definitely Boden, I used to have so much of it and appreciated the colours and quality but it’s gone silly now with 100£+ for polyester jumpers.

I’m also in the EU and they put higher prices on their EU website post Brexit, and sent me a birthday voucher which wasn’t valid for the EU.

I used to save for big shopping sprees when visiting home (uk) but in recent years I’m just wondering boarded up high streets only to find garish polyester dresses, and only ever buy anything in tk maxx these days.