New style M&S

I am 5’ 2” and find M & S short jeans are the perfect length.

GrannyGravy13

I am 5’ 2” and find M & S short jeans are the perfect length.

👍 next time!

I love the Meerkats adverts, I bought our young grandson all the Meerkat family. Yes, they always look very smart.

I remember in the 60's, my old mum used to go to town with my sister and I and sketch all the M & S dresses in the store window, then we would go to the market, buy the material we wanted and she would make the dresses on the Singer treadle sewing machine.

This is music to my ears! I'm 5'11 and struggle to find trousers long enough. I'll have to investigate M & S.

I find the long, in jeans, is perfect growstuff.

Their short trousers are longer than they used to be, no good for 5'1''. And their trousers are much too baggy. Straight trousers and jeggings never allow for fatter calves. Bon Marche do better lengths but their styles are very limited. Only trousers I find that fit well and look nice are Robell which I buy but costly.

nadateturbe

Their short trousers are longer than they used to be, no good for 5'1''. And their trousers are much too baggy. Straight trousers and jeggings never allow for fatter calves. Bon Marche do better lengths but their styles are very limited. Only trousers I find that fit well and look nice are Robell which I buy but costly.

I used to buy regular, now I find they are far too long and short is the right length.
I'm 5'4"

It's not just because I've shrunk slightly because my old regular length M&S trousers still fit.

Some styles come in extra short, nadateturbe.

I have had to take up my recently bout short ones! 😠

The advert just seems ridiculous! Are they really trying to appeal to normal cutomers? If I wasn,t already an M+S customer this wouldn't entice me into their store! I might 'bump' into the mad woman!!😂😂

So I'm not imagining the change. I must look for the extra short Callistemon thanks.

Do you think it is a bit of a joke that advert ?I was thinking it must be tongue in cheek, prancing around like that. Definitely trying to change the boring middle aged look!

Yes nanna8 I agree, their trying to zhuzh up the ad to attract youngsters.

It looks like the advert worked, its got us all thinking and talking about M&S 😀

M and S would do better spending money on better designers for the ladies clothes.

I thought it was awful too, why can't they feature more women of our age? Twiggy was one, but there are plenty more

nanna8

Do you think it is a bit of a joke that advert ?I was thinking it must be tongue in cheek, prancing around like that. Definitely trying to change the boring middle aged look!

Yes, I think so.

The problem is, they are still ignoring their core customer and trying to attract youngsters who wouldn't go in there if it was the last shop standing!

The advert is stupid, like most of them, very irritating.

I used to buy a few bits from M & S, now I only go in there for food. I am 5'2", size 12 and saw a nice dress in there the other day, I tried it up against myself (for a laugh) and there was at least 4" of it dragging on the floor!

They used to make some items in 'petite' fittings but they seem to have stopped that now. I know younger women are taller but there are still plenty of us shorties around!

I have been trying to buy cropped leggings too, I like my tunics but the best place for cropped leggings in nice colours now seems to be my favourite shop, Seasalt.

I think if she behaved like that in our M and S security would ask her to leave!

I miss the days when there were assistants around in Marks and helped you if you asked them. You could identify them by their uniform. Now in my local, large M and S the staff are always hurrying across the shop floor playing a game I think. It must be called don’t get stuck with a shopper, certainly no eye contact and certainly don’t speak.
I dislike the ad on television but I expect the women are famous people I don’t know but get paid shedloads to be in the ad.

Could it be that M&S are trying to attract a wider audience ?
You can’t please all of the people all of the time !
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Namsnanny

But realistically they can't target the over 45's as their major customer, if they want to stay afloat. We die off.

A younger customer may buy from them for 40 years or more.

I actually like some of the clothes in the advert. Especially the waistcoat suit. I couldn't possibly fit in it though

A 45 year old could easily have another 40 years of shopping 😂

I think she has a lovely face and looks great in that lime green get up

I call it 'the advert with the woman and her wobbly eyes' as she doesn't seem to be able to look in one direction for more than a split second.

I am 5ft. and have just bought these, they are angle grazers. Short was too long! 🤣

ankle even!