I have bought two, yes two jackets from Per Una today. Is it a slow and inevitable slide into a middle age of Footglove shoes, the Radio Times on subscription and M&S custard tarts???

[moondog]

Or is it early menopause??

Ah but for some strange reason, they always have some nice jackets, but like Lands End really. Rest of the stuff is grantastic.

hmmm, how are you for hot flushes?

No hot flushes .....yet. (Hence need for jackets and t' like)
V. nice turquoise linen affair
Pink cardigan.

They are nice I swear.

all of the above
long may they reign

hic

yes links. we need to judge

It looks minging here! Actually very nice with jeans, a vest top, nice snadals and a long necklace.
That hideous scarf came with it. I told the woman on counter to keep it as it made me feel as if I was an air hostess with British Midland circa 1975.
www.marksandspencer.com/gp/product/B0018QV3ME/sr=1-16/qid=1215299160/ref=sr_1_16/203-6066402-5697551 ?ie=UTF8&node=&m=A2BO0OYVBKIQJM&keywords=&mnSBrand=core&size=9&rh=n%3A43014030&page=2

Second is better in RL. Honest.
Some of those dresses are criminla. Designers should be lined up and shot.

i too like the one you didnt get

i ried to link to a dress i bought once when showing off on here and it looked bloody awful online. so i will accept your explanation for minging appearance of jacket

tHANKS aMPHI.
It means a great deal to me.
(It wasn't a Per Una dress though was it?)

I don't understand Per Una - it's all too busy and flouncy for my liking - too many colours..I don't think I've ever bought anything from them,except for a nice leather bag many years ago.

I think Cod once made the point that M&S is unique amongst websites in making their clothes look worse than they actually are.

(I quite like Per Una stuff )

yes.

you should be ashamed of yourself.

return them immediately. And that polycotton print skirt with an elasticated waist you haven't 'fessed up to yet. Yes, you know, the one in the grey and peach fern pattern....

Message withdrawn

I LOVE M&S custard tarts! Don't like the jackets much though, sorry - but then I don't "do" blue so was biased anyway. Why do M&S persist with the Per Una range when the Limited Collection and Autograph ones are so much nicer?

Lol at "grey and peach fern pattern"

I wear footglove shoes but they are nice and have a Miu-Miu type flower.(I was amazed when I saw them, M&S shoes are usually vile and fit worse, acceptable only to the navy handbag-and-blazer brigade).

But then I have arthritis so have already entered oldfart-dom.

I am currently flicking through a catalogue that came with a Sunday supplement, debating on whether to buy the Repro-cabinet that secretly houses my Radio Times back issues, or the tapestry-topped stool.
Decisions, decisions...

Eurghhh

shudder at Per Una.
Join the queue with the designers Moondog.

Just bring them back. At least M&S will allow that.

Is it a full moon? Ok, well we won't tell anyone. Your secret is safe.

"Are you a Joanna-Trollope-style middle-aged tory voter? DO you work as a hospital secretary"

I laughed so hard I nearly choked.