What is up with M & S?

I bought two pairs of trousers today in M&S and I'm pleased with them, but the dresses were not for me

and this www.marksandspencer.com/Una-Short-Sleeve-Buttercup-Jersey/dp/B0052PSAGY?ie=UTF8&ref=sr_1_1&nodeId=53399031&sr=1-1&qid=1312914582

this is nice www.marksandspencer.com/Una-Cotton-Sleeve-Stripe-Shirt/dp/B00508HO1K?ie=UTF8&ref=sr_1_48&nodeId=72939031&sr=1-48&qid=1312914300

I don't believe they would ignore the over sixties!

Autograph is a bit old lady-ish, isn't it.

I like per una.

I like frills.

I hate Per Una too: too floaty and frilly, but I find myself unable to buy anything in M and S! Agree re awful colours, bad fit (OK it might be my shape!) and frump. Autograph best of a bad job. Read a Tweet which said management had told the company to ignore over 60s! Fine by me, I'll have Gap any day.

I'm still really pissed off that they don't seem to have t shirts with a reasonable sleeve length. It doesn't seem a lot to ask, in the great scheme of things. I just want them in white, red, black, and maybe a sort of tan-ish colour, reasonably fitted (i.e. not baggy beach wear type) with a sleeve that comes about an inch or two above the elbow.

The Portfolio range fitted the bill, but they have discontinued it. (Ignore the bloody crap on the website where you click on the Portfolio range that says all items can be found in their usual range, they can't. Their "standard" t shirts are def. very skimpy in the sleeve!)

My local M&S outlet still has some Portfolio t shirts on the rails. Great if you want lime green, orange, purple or a particularly eye-watering shade of fuschia, in a size 14 or above.

What a relief to read all this - I thought I was the only one having bad thoughts about M&S wear. Used to be a time when M&S was the first place to go to, prices right, quality material etc., made in the UK. Other half got bored with me buying from them - now its his turn - the mens stuff is so much better than what we women have to choose from. Is it the Chinese influence - so much seems to come from there these days?

I agree about Per Una, who are they aiming those awful clothes at? I went today but am writing to them and boycotting them for a while, I want colours but not garish, sleeves but not those tight ones that end right at the top of the arm and make them look like sausages, and skirts just below the knee or mid-leg, not dragging on the ground,is this too much to ask?

Waiting for the men in the garage to charge me extortionate amount for a new indicator stalk. Went in M and S. Who buys those high necked t shirts? Good for kids and size 10 flat chested models maybe? In those colours? Few customers, scowling at clothes. No staff in sight apart from security man.
Did not feel moved to lay my fingers upon a single garment.
Next door in Next they had lots of lovely things. Bought a pair of navy leggings and a flattering creamy t shirt with flecks in it, with scoop neckline. Bought a Kaftany shaped print tunic. Admired lots of their more formal tops. They are really trying hard. Interesting colours. Staff were young but sweet. "I bought one just like this for my mum and she loves it" Even the customers were smiling.

About 3 years since i shopped in M & S. All the clothes are poor quality, frumpy and badly designed. This summer most of my wardrobe has come from Boden and am just viewing the Autumn/Winter on line too. I shall definitely be ordering from them again .Sorry M & S you dont get my custom!

gma - my local M & S is having a huge makeover too - I'm in Norwich - are we neighbours? And I agree with everyone that M & S is not what it was. My bugbear is trying to buy skirts for my small mother-in-law who is fussy about quality. M & S is no longer a byword, and most other stores have given up selling skirts it would appear

It's a sweet scone, with raisins, cooked on a griddle, and dusted with caster sugar. Flour, fat, sugar, raisins. Roll, cut, cook, dust.


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Hi elizabethjoan. Try a rock cake recipe.

Got stuck with M and S! Sorrry! Am half welsh and need welsh cake recipe. My Granny used to make them. I thought they had raisins in them too?
Went to Wales twice, and for the first, and second, times ever, felt truly at home. I looked like the people, and I felt my weirdness not so weird! I was in the right place....a new feeling, and a good one. Need to return, and feel the roots.

The only size we have to worry about is ours after we've eaten them

M&S welshcakes are delicious warmed up, they taste like the real thing! Ooooh, I could just do with one and a cuppa (almost a midnight feast!)
Yogagran, we're talking about welsh cakes not cup cakes! What size indeed!

The only department that seems to work is the Blue Horizon dept for the 63 yr old husband who I try to keep up to date ish. Yes he is a bit conservative, but the shirts are fine and the variety in waist and leg length for trousers is v good. Sadly, for me, I do a mental slump as I enter the doors, but go in, just in case there is an unmissable. Trouble is, the cut is rubbish. Everything is cut in rectangular lines. The Roma jeans aren't bad though, but the last ones I bought were 3 years ago. Since then, Oasis (fab) and Gap.

Lovely -can I have a welsh cake please. Do they sell them in M&S - what size?

Jangly explains above. Its a bit like rock cake mix only rolled out, cut into rounds and cooked on a griddle. Best eaten warm.

Can you buy welsh cakes in M & S? Only in Llanfairpwyl.................probably!!!!!
Opps! its wine o'clock

What exactly is a welshcake anyone?

I'm off to eat some cakes.

well, perhaps you'd better not.

explain that a bit more.

please!!

When I saw the headline "what is up with M & S" I thought I had stumbled onto some "rude" website... I was wrong unfortunately