PLANET clothing - has any heard of of it?

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I got a really nice cardigan in a charity shop this week which is branded PLANET, and I’d like to buy more from this brand. Unfortunately I can’t find anywhere online that sells it. There are a few pieces on Vinted.
Has anyone heard of it, or is it maybe some long extinct brand?

OMG! My first suit was précis petite. It’s was a brown boucle with chestnut and orange tones (skirt & jacket). I wore it with an orange silk sleeveless blouse and brown heels and I looked the business 😂

Oh I loved Kaliko…

… does anyone remember Boundary Mill in Lancashire before it got posh? When it was at the previous site and was just a massive tin shed with concrete floors?

They used to sell Planet, Kaliko, Dash, Betty Barclay, Clements Ribero, all the names of the day! I loved going when I visited my parents.

I had a lovely silk shift dress with matching jacket from Kaliko. I wore it for graduation and my first few years in work. Loved Kaliko. Basically Kaliko and Planet were my working wardrobe until I had kids and lost my disposable income.

I loved Planet. Had some amazing black crepe 3/4 length trousers. Miss it.

I splashed out on a planet shift dress, blazer and top for my new office job in 2015.....it must have been shortly before they closed down

My first suit for uni interview and work was a taupe number from Planet in 1995. I eventually expanded out of it so passed it on. Was a lovely, well made suit.

Planet was great. Went bust a good few years ago

It used to be in our local independent department store, Debenhams too I think. It used to be lovely, very good quality.

Planet was out in the 90s

I’m a secondhand clothes seller. The quality of a lot of secondhand clothes puts what’s currently in the shops, even in the more expensive end of the high street, to shame. I’ve noticed particularly East and vintage pieces from Monsoon are fabulous quality. Vintage Planet and Jaeger too. A lot of those labels are from a time that a few years ago was hideously out of style and impossible to sell but now look fresh again.

I loved East. Some of it was horrendously frumpy but some of it wasn’t.

I agree HamHand but the problem is that in the mid to late 80s/early 90s, a Planet suit was probably between £150 to £200. I remember paying about £375 for an Austin Reed classic trouser suit in about 2007/8. That quality now is almost impossible to find. In the early 90s I could buy an Italian tailored skirt suit from M&S for about £100. The same quality would be £350 at least now I imagine. People just won't pay it.

M&S now charges £45 for a nylon frock with rough seams; better quality is available from LK Bennet, Hobbs, Jigsaw but the quality isn't the same as Jaeger, for example, in the mid 80s. There is one brand that's pretty good at an equivalent price point that still uses wool crepe and has a swish factor for the price point - it will come to me in a minute.

Jigsaw is now eye watering prices for polyester. I have abandoned it.

I bought a lined wool suit from M&S around 2000 and it cost £110. I earn a lot more now than I did then but I suspect the cost of anything comparable now would be quite ouchy.

It became part of the same company as Dash/ Alexon.

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I've got a lovely summer dress from East which I bought in our local charity shop. Very simple classic style but lovely fabric. I've had it for a few years now but I get it out every summer and it still looks good.

That's the thing @NeedWineNow. Whilst I don't spend 00's on work clothes nowadays (quasi puic sector/charity), cost per wear for something expensive and long lasting may be less than a £39.50 frock from Next which never made the wearer feel like a million dollars.

I have a plain Basler dress bought in the sale six years ago for £85 reduced from £320. Still looks fabulous and worn about 20 times a year. Even at full price it would have been good value. Similarly a couple of Jigsaw tops for about £75.

What I will say is that if you have had good stuff in your time it helps if you happen to come across something we'll made and cut on the bias quite unexpectedly.

M&S have some really good quality wool trousers, wide leg, this winter for about £45. Easily worth £100+ from a better label. They'll repeat them next year, the fabric will be thinner, they won't be ad well-finished to keep to the price point rather than the quality. I remember M&S's cashmere in the 70s. It was thick and luscious. I wouldn’t give it a second look nowadays.

Vinted has quite a lot of planet stuff. I got a lovely jacket last month.