Aren't M&S clothes shite at the moment?

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Going to a party tomorrow. I have something to wear, but ended up with a couple of hours spare and decided to go and shop for something new. Nearest place with easy parking is a big M&S.

My God, how dreary are their clothes?! Shitey McShite of Shitesville.

Who buys all that stuff?

I was so disappointed not to be able to spend any money. I went round twice, in disbelief, convinced I must have missed all the nice stuff.

I hasten to add, at no point have I felt I am walking around in horrid coloured clothes. But I am curious.

Brown swimsuits excellent idea for autumnals.... and look lovely with turquoise sarong.

Actually, I have got a brown swimsuit. Unfortunately it has no underwire so it gives me the old flat dangly tit look. I'm pinning my hopes on [http://www.bravissimo.com/products/swimwear/bikinis/panache/balconette-bikini-tops/ps50-details.asp x this]]

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I don't know if I'm an autumnal. I don't even like talking about the possibility

I've done my colours by the simple expedient of checking the useful websites on this thread. Thanks all.

I have discovered I am autumn. Now, you expert colour people, what more would I get from a consultant?

what websoites?

Much more specific shade advice
bu hey im not BOthered if you go or not

MrsM
you dont acept cats

miaow

Policywonk - that bikini is lovely - and autumnal shade perfect. Perhaps you naturally wear autumnal shades in any case, without realising it? I think we all mostly do that as we naturally prefer colours that make us look (and therefore feel) better. I think you would look absolutely tremendous in gold. And there are blues that fall within the autumn palate, I've seen you in a bluebell colour and that's one of the sautumn blues I think.

My three sisters are all rich autumns.

This is a little bit frightening. The science of not looking crap has always intimidated me, and now I am thinking that Briget Jones's mother was right all along and I should 'get my colours done' and leave behind all the 'slurries and beige'.

Thready - You look almost identical to Juliette Binoche, so perhaps you could phone her agent and ask if she's had her colours done?

Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha. I'm quite happy for everyone on MN to think I look like JB, though.

She would be trois coleurs (-- bleu, blanc, rouge), I think.

Thanks swedes. I'll keep an eye out for gold. (I am developing a fondness for gold jewellery but do not have the bank account to match.)

She's right about the Juliette Binoche resemblance, thready!

We are following swedes around the board to see if it will freak her out. (She will outwit us by hiding in the Tack Room.)

"Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha. I'm quite happy for everyone on MN to think I look like JB, though.

She would be trois coleurs (-- bleu, blanc, rouge), I think."

PMSL@Threadworm2

This must be the most highbrow joke I've seen on MN in ages!

Thready - LOL at trois coleurs.

Policywonk - instant glam with a pair of old jeans and Converse You don't have to buy real gold, you know.

That's not a colour it would ever have occurred to me to try, swedes, but it does look lovely.

Maternity bras are awful, aren't they? I gave up on them second time around and just ruined a few normal bras instead. (But you do need the proper ones for the first few months when you've got rock-hard melons.)

Lenin, bras are difficult for me, colourwise, because white sends my skin tones into 'Unwashed Corpse', and black sends them to 'Prostitute Past her Prime'. That's as far as I've got with colour science.

I suspect I am autumn, though, so slurries and beige prob. ok.

Threadworm, it's true about Juliette Binockers (as the News of the World used to call her). I like your glamorous Hollywood sequel name too. (It's I orek here by the way).

It's interesting this colour me beautiful stuff. The concept makes me feel a bit queasy, but I knew a girl who was bullied into having it done by her overbearing singing teacher at college and she was indeed transformed in her appearance, outlook and career prospects.

I am unhealthily fascinated by the question of whether it is possible to sort oneself out from the outside in so to speak. The idea that you can "heal" yourself in quite a fundamental way by changing the way you habitually dress/think/eat/do your housekeeping seems to have been very popular in recent years. It seems like a wrong idea to me, but I can't quite work out why.

Am I taking this too seriously? I have noticed that M & S clothes are unusually horrible lately too.

lol at 'Unwashed corpse' and 'Prostitute Past her Prime'. They are Farrow and Ball, no?

you see that pale gold would eb dire on me
I liek a nude bra for reasons of praticality altho it does look likea prosthesis

It is a fascinating idea, Watt. I think there is something in it for sure, even if it might have been fashionably overstated.