Do you think M&S will consult us now?

No Prob.

Sorry, my fault for just sending off fast answer and not engaging mind.

Obviously fallen flat ,A little humour on my part !!!!!

Nonu, Do I know you? I have filed no profile and no photo.

You certainly do no look it , FLICK .

Who to believe ? I ask myself ?

hmmmm

Well, this morning R4 reported that M&S clothing sales were down for the 8th successive quarter. Food sales and profits were up.

Obviously there are a lot of people still liking and buying their clothes but their numbers are decreasing. For the last 50 years whenever I have gone into M&S my immediate impression has always been that the clothes are designed for women 20 years older me. I am now 70 and that is still my immediate reaction when I see their clothes.

I notice that M/S has posted it"s best clothing performance for two years .

Good on them , I like their stuff .

Just before I go down the garden to move some gravel I will just slip into my off-duty daytime dress.

Nice dress, shame about the blurb

That is most definitely a cocktail dress. Since it has no print, I suspect they have got their blurb mixed up!

laid-back indeed (and thinking of England?)

Quite, Jess!

MM - depends what kind of "duty" you normally do in the day I guess . Perfect off duty wear for... a hard working farmer, or police officer maybe?
If it were an on-duty daytime dress I could only think of one profession in which it would nail the required look. And I don't mean modelling.

Jane, you're right about the off-duty daytime look!

One of the reviewers also makes the comment that the dress is plain black - no print at all...

Just taken a look. It gives 'laid back' a whole new meaning.

An M&S advert of Twiggy wearing an LBD popped up while I was looking at something else. It's a style I like, and would wear for special evenings out, so I clicked on it

www.marksandspencer.com/Twiggy-Woman-Front-Knot-Dress/dp/B00CF8AY74?extid=TP_F_CT_B_260911_290_CreoGe

This is what the blurb says : "Featuring a slash neck, this dress strikes the perfect balance with its laid-back design and a distinctive print. Perfect for an off-duty daytime look"

Laid-back design? It looks quite formal to me.
Distinctive print? Am I missing something?
Perfect for an off-duty day-time look? not sure what my neighbour would think if I popped round for a cuppa in this dress!!

M&S sadly I think you're in terminal decline.

Well, all their current adverts show nothing but clothes in black and white, neither of which colours I wear because, for me, they are very unflattering.

Either that, Charleygirl, or they are really drab and grungy.

That is a problem there annodomini-one often needs to be wearing sunglasses to view the clothes.

Possibly the worst garments I saw today in M&S were long cotton shirts - not bad fabric and a style I rather liked, but they were in a blinding pink and a neon lime green. I got a headache just looking at them!

Check out Lands End - there's a 25% sale on at the moment. Not cheap but find they last.

Yup deeda my DH would shop there if there was anything that fitted. But menswear is run for and by a bunch of skinny guys. Last time we tried there was, in a huge menswear dept, not a single assistant there to help if one happened to have a question like "Do you have any flat fronted charcoal business trousers in a 42 waist and a long leg length?". Just one woman supervising the fitting room, who could not move from her post and actually "assist".
Someone (with a rugby playing husband) gave me the tip that Tesco do chinos and jeans that fit men with big thighs. He got some chinos there (Ok for work but they don't last long - but they wouldn't at the price) and also some black jeans. First time he has had a pair of jeans that fitted!