Buying clothes

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Bon Marche, Yours and supermarkets do for me 🙂

I think the point is that the older you get the more you realise what styles suit you. My clothes now tend to be jeans for winter and linen trousers for summer. I have a couple of long skirts for summer and half a dozen long dresses for summer. Jumpers or tunic style tops for the winter, and T shirts and vest tops in the summer. I have a it of M&S, although I don't like much of their stuff at the moment. Lots of Joe Brown, either bought in the sales or on eBay. And my favourite at the moment is a Whitestuff dress which was £6 at a carboot sale!

11 year old thread!

I recently came across ROMAN and it's just right for me ie not too expensive and fits well. Really pleased

I tend to use the same very few online retailers, and buy much the same things.

I’m going to need new summer trousers soon (last lot pretty much worn out) and am already hoping that it won’t yet again be largely a selection of mostly very-over-wide leg, barrel leg, crops and ankle- grazers, non of which I want!
🤞someone will be offering good quality cotton/linen/a mix, in a slightly wide, straight, ankle length style.

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I only by Boden when there is a sale or discount I should have said as their items are overpriced but they have frequent sales.

Talking of M and S. I went in there yesterday to buy some new nicks for my holiday. There was practically a whole floor of bras but all I could find in the knicker line was 4 small stands with nicks at £6 each or 3 for 2. Didn't they used to be 4 for £10? Didn't they used to sell 5 in a pack? The ones on the stands were universally nasty synthetic fabric,I wanted cotton bikini style, nice colours. Could I find the packs or anything in cotton? Searched high and low but couldn't find any. Then gave up.

It says 7/8 on the M & S label.

Ah - I know the ones, Coolgran65 !
I hadn't realised that's what they're called. I rather like them, too. Think I'll have a look at M&S.

7/8 length trousers come to about the ankle bone and are tapered. I love them with ballet flats. M & S do a range.

What are 7/8 trousers?

Smelling salts?

Can one un-faint?

No - sorry, the have got some cheaper ones! I must have been looking at the higher-priced range when I googled earlier - sorry

£65! For a T-shirt (faints)

At that price I would want it to give me an automatic breast increase, be totally self laundering to the point where it put itself back in the wardrobe!

I seem to be saving a lot of money!

But those places are so expensive, Teetime! A T-shirt in Boden can cost £65 plus...

I'm trying new things (for me) 7/8 trousers and baggy harem pants - the latter are lovely and comfy but DH says they are pyjamas - great for loafing about in. I'm usually in the same shops or on line Boden, Joules, White Stuff, Monsoon, Sea salt - middle aged lady with no sense of style and limited budget that kind of thing.

I used to be a sale junkie too, Ana , but to try to avoid a real impulse purchase, I used to try to restrict myself to only buying things that would "go" with something that I already had. (Smug emoticon)

All went to pot over an expensive top that had been reduced by lots. I was certain that the colour of it would go with something that I already had, so bore it home in triumph!

It was only then that I realised that the colour that was in my mind was the damn lining of a suit