High Street Yes / No game.

[misshardbroom]

Since discovering S & B (and thank you for your warm welcome, it has been a wonderful discovery although I doubt my bank manager agrees), I have had a few surprises about where people do / don't shop.

So I wondered if you would cast your eye over the following list of clothing stores on my high street and tell me whether it's worth shopping in them: yes / no / other succinct reply.

M&S
Next
H&M
Miss Selfridge
Warehouse
Dorothy Perkins
Debenhams
TopShop
Linea @ HoF
Oasis
Monsoon

(not the best array in the world, is it? Do you see why I shop online?)

I do shop on the high street as I don't have that much disposable income and so can't afford expensive clothes (also with a toddler and a 5.5 month old, they always end up covered in goo of some description!! )

But the stores I do shop in are because they have tall ranges, and being 5' 10" with 36" inside leg, size 8, long arms and broad shoulders (sound like a right beauty, don't I?!!) I don't have much choice!!!

So...
M&S - Yes - for bras, pjs, tights, jumpers/basics

Next - Yes (Didn't realise that people disliked Next so much!! ) I admit that some of the stuff is a bit odd, but the jeans I'm wearing are great, fit well and are too long for me!!!! So I'm happy!!

H&M - Sometimes they have nice stuff in the summer

Miss Selfridge - NO!! Not since I was 18!!

Warehouse - NO!! Traitors stopped doing their tall range, so I stopped shopping there!!

Dorothy Perkins - yes, but not as often as I used to

Debenhams - No

TopShop - No (I feel like a grandma when I go in there, even if they do do a tall range!!)

Linea @ HoF - No

Oasis - No, can't fit my shoulders and monkey arms in their stuff!!

Monsoon - Sometimes, but in the sales

I do really like Zara, though as their stuff fits me like a dream and they have a good range of styles and price brackets! I tend to go mad when we go on holiday to places like Italy or spain as stuff in their shops seem to fit me well - I'm not sure why as all the Italian and Spanish women are far more petite than me!!

OK I am 45 and a size 10

M&S - underwear but am too scared of getting anything else in case I have inadvertently bought from the "old lady collection."
Next - Well yes I do. Eeek. I didn't know they were supposed to be that awful
H&M - For the kids I guess. Bought a dress for me a few weeks ago, went to wear it and had to take it off as it looked so cheap and nasty
Miss Selfridge - no I am too old
Warehouse - never been in, I presumed it's to expensive for me
Dorothy Perkins - sometimes peer in but their "Over 40 approaching" siren goes off
Debenhams - yes
TopShop - not this 20 year
Linea @ HoF - never heard of it
Oasis - see warehouse
Monsoon - don't look at the clothes, only accessories I presume they are too expensive, all a bit velvet/glittery for me anyway

Serenity - I like that "I'm wearing" thing so much I am off to start a thread ...

Mine's easy! -
M&S - only limited or autograph collection, or for undies/pj's.
None of others other than Oasis for jeans and v occasionally Topshop or Warehouse for knitwear, and Next for dc's.

I shop at Great Plains, Kew, Gap, White Stuff, Hush, Noa Noa, Comptoir des Cotonniers, Part Two and In Wear and am massively in need of inspiration.

Have recently crossed Fat Face off favourites list, and haven't shopped in Next for me in a good while, barely worth getting the directory these days..

Also used to like Whistles but think that's gone off a bit too. Jigsaw nice but overpriced. Monsoon too mumsy.