Nicole Lewis - clothes online

I wondered where Kirsty Allsop bought her clothes

Tizliz I am not sure that I want to know- they are horrendous and I think that her dresses are too short. She resembles a sack of potatoes tied in the middle.

I know what I like about them! They are "frocks"! They're definitely "frocks".

Bet they are made from crimplene!

They are what a friend's husband used to call 'washing dresses' - ie. Clothes worn by our mothers when doing the housework.

My mother would not have worn anything remotely like this. She wore smart clothes and when they were old and had been replaced, then she would wear them for housework. Not even my grandmother would have worn anything like those hideous monstrosities and she was never fashionable.

Charleygirl no, nor mine!! DM liked Windsmoor and Alexon and was daring enough to buy a trouser suit when they first came in!!

I was just thinking about a post on another thread where someone was asking for easy to get on trousers and skirts for an elderly mother in a care home
I hope I am compos mentis enough to tell anyone that I will not wear them.

TriciaF I think the Bon Marche jeans are comfortable and my M&S needlecord trousers are very comfy, straight legged, not tight but not at all baggy.

They have a hint of Margaret Thatcher about them.

Surely not!

Love her or loathe her she never wore stuff like that; smart 'power-dressing' suits, pussy cat bow blouses (which *were fashionable, lots of people wore them) and pearls - probably all very expensive.

this one's really nice!

It's so.....retro! I love it.

I want it.

jing have you lost the plot?

jingl have you been skipping your medication?

No! It's pretty! It's just a shirtwaister for goodness sake. I used to like those.

I just went on Gransnet via Internet Explorer (usually use firefox) and I got the pink sqaure. Twice. And I signed in with my email and password. But it doesn't acknowledge the fact that I have signed in. ie I get pages rather than the one long thread I usually have, and threads the wrong way up (factory settings)

It's a bit of a puzzle, but it doesn't matter.

Wrong thread

Just watched Vera on catch up and she was wearing one of these dresses I am sure. So it will be you and her jing Oh and Kirstie of course!

It looks very like one my mother wore 60 years ago.

No! It's pretty! It's just a shirtwaister for goodness sake.
A shirtwaister has to be made of lovely cotton in a plainish colour and very expensive doesn't it?

But it doesn't tell you what the material is, I hate manmade fabrics.

I think that there should be a few GNs queuing up at Specsavers and Tizliz and I will not be with them.

Did anyone look further on the site? There are some lovely waistcoats. Not.
I had to put the 'not' incase anyone thought I might wear one.

And although it states that the dresses come in 'long' or 'short' the only option given is 'short'...

The long-sleeved dresses all seem to be made of polyester, but it doesn't give any information about the short-sleeved ones.

The knitwear is just atrocious!

On the home page it says "elderly ladies dresses". No apostrophe of course. Says it all really.

After all your advice, I got more adventurous and have bought these:
fr.nextdirect.com/en/x572s2#396043
They arrived today and I'm pleased with them.