Here we go again - M&S woes

The revenge of M&S or Marks strikes back!
M&S food hall last night, I managed an unrehearsed and undignified nose dive which has resulted in a ballooning left knee, a swollen (staved?) right ring finger a jarred wrist and a nasty bruise just below my collar bone
No broken bones but bruised dignity and generally feeling a little stiff and fragile today. Was it something I said?
The staff were very kind and helpful for what it is worth

Oh dea, Soutra, hope you mend soon. Did they put it in the accident book?
Not what you went in for. I hope they gave you a really nice ready meal to take home so that you didn't have to cook.

As if rosequartz!! I got sympathy but that was all!

However despite my earlier criticism I did msnage to find some inexpensive nut adequate cord jeans and a navy blue Paddington Bear duffle coat- oh and industrial quantities of opaque tights and knee highs for the winter .

Soutra how do you get the knee highs to stay up? I remember walking along a road and feeling my knee highs rapidly creeping down until both were a bundle at my ankles. I had to step out of them and continue.

As they're always under trousers or jeans nobody really sees them and a quick tug usually enables me to "pull up my socks" as my mum used to tell me to do!

Rose I've only once tried to check in online (with Flybe) and it was a horrific experience I don't wish to repeat. I just queue up at the check in desks now.

Anya they charge £70 per person to check in at the airport.
Have done it, messed it up and when I phoned to try to alter seats was told it was £15pp to cancel what I had done and £15pp to check in again!! £60 in total!
When I very nicely asked how much it was now to use the onboard toilets she told me she had had a trying day, that I was rude and she put the phone down.
Really looking forward to these flights!

Things must have changed in the couple of years since I last used Ryanair Rose but when I last checked in at an airport checkin desk in January there was no charge. That was Flybe.

Ryanair charge for everything they can but I was amused on my last flight with them when during the pre-flight safety talk the cabin crew announced where the toilets were and that they were FREE!!

With Ryanair as others have said you MUST check in on-line unless you want to be charged an extortionate amount. Other airlines have different rules.

I had been warned by at least two people that there was a charge for using the toilets on board! Obviously an urban myth, but i must have deprived her of a bonus when i declined her offer to charge me £60 to change our seats. The flight crew may prove to be nicer and may be charm personified.
To bring this more back on track, I have usually found M&S staff in store and on the telephone to be very pleasant and helpful.

After regularly being rude about M&S, I have been shopping there in trumps this autumn. Mind you, it is the dull unexciting items I have been buying, 4 pairs of jeggings, in different fabrics but 3 of them are black and 1 pair cavalry twill colour. A particular feature of them is that they all have pockets, for paper hankies and house keys.

Don't forget to remove the paper hankies before they go into the washing machine

I`ve been wondering about the whole jegging/legging thing. Am I too old to wear them under a (very) long top? Sometimes I think it would be so comfortable but then I wonder if people would just think "why is that wifey wearing a dress and trousers". Dilemma! Shopping in M&S tomorrow............

Rest assured that, once M&S are selling something, the Top Shop generation have moved on to something else .

Jane10 Treggings/Jeggings and even leggings are wonderful comfortable useful staples. They don't look like a dress and trousers because they are so fitted like tights. Probably need to try on tops carefully to check the posterior is well covered and to check that the top is obviously not a dress and too long to balance. Go on treat yourself!

I live in jeggings or skinny leg trousers all year. I think they are far more flattering for older women than the wider legged trousers so many prefer. They give you a slim silhouette and tops can be as long/short/baggy/slim fitting as you prefer.

Jeggings are brilliant. In summer, just above the ankle with flat pumps or fitflops. In the winter, tucked into boots. Always with a long shirt, tunic, jumper. Even a knitted dress type as long as the dress is above the knee.

Can someone please explain the differences between leggings/jeggings/treggings for someone who can't even contemplate skinny jeans on account of fatty legs?

FlicketyB, surely they only give you a slim silhouette if you are slim anyway? And the top half needs to match, otherwise you end up with the top-heavy robin look.

Sometimes bootleg or wide leg trousers can give the illusion of a better balance.

Soutra I've wondered about this myself and have come up with this.....

leggings are finer fabric and pull up like footless tights. Must have bum covered.
Jeggings are heavier and can pull up or have a zip. Must have bum covered..
Treggings are heavier again, sometimes with feature seaming, but basically like very stretchy jeans but slightly different styled. Slim wearers might get away without a long top......I'll just keep my posterior well covered.

I reckon keeping bum covered means more than a longish jumper, it means to about mid thigh... or something to mid thigh underneath the jumper. IMHO

I'd be interested to hear how others define the differences.

To add...... jeggings and treggings can be more flattering than skinny jeans. I look ridiculous in skinny jeans.
But tapered cigarette pants are perfect to dress up. I got a black jacquard pair from M and Co that will take be out to anything dressy for the next couple of years..

But confusingly Uniqlo sell "leggings" for £14.99 which are just like pull on stretch jeans, they don't use the terms "jeggings" at all, so it depends on the retailer I think. They are very comfy and come in loads of colours BTW.

I think I would look like Humpty Dumpty in anything other than bootcut jeans!

Soutra, I've got fatty legs too! They go with the fatty rest of me

Ana DD, who is generously built lives in leggings and loose, but not too loose, tops and it makes her look much slimmer and 'together' than similar sized women in long baggy trousers with big baggy tops over them. If you are big you cannot hide it so flaunt it, at least that is her attitude.

I always think of leggings as being made from relatively thin fabric while jeggings/treggings (no, I do not know the difference) are a heavier fabric and the ones I have just bought at M&S have more structure round the waist band, and have pockets.

Isn't it a portmanteau word for jeans/leggings and trousers/leggings? So the former tend to be stretchy denim type material, although the difference is becoming blurred I think. Have only had Treggings and Jeggings in the past but have just bought some M and S leggings to go with bargain Monsoon sale top and am pleased with the look. I have long legs, but chunky calves and find high boots over leggings etc disguise this. Or so I delude myself..