Nicole Lewis - clothes online

Not before time I woud say!

An update on this thread - I went back to it to look for the suggestions for other sites that you ladies made, and found that apparently Nicole Lewis has gone out of business (page can't be found)

"elderly ladies dresses" might as well go to the charity shop then

Thank goodness. The Next ones are soooo much better. I was very worried about you TriciaF. Just because we are older in age it doesn't mean we should ever give up on style just because it is cheap. With all the other GN suggestions for shopping you can now buy online reasonably priced clothes wherever you live. My late Mum always looked brilliant on a budget and she is my inspiration.

Sorry it should be this one!
fr.nextdirect.com/en/x572s2#396043?zanpid=2139434434385372160

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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

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?

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

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!

Wrong thread

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.

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

jingl have you been skipping your medication?

jing have you lost the plot?

I want it.

this one's really nice!

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

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.

They have a hint of Margaret Thatcher about them.

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.

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.