Latest must have dress from M&S.

Well if you do fancy one I'd hang on till the sales as there are bound to be rails left of those!

Erghhhh, no! Salmon pink= old lady's knicker colour.

Style is very retro. Wouldn't wear it myself.

It's so completely hideous I wouldn't even suggest a use for it as a shroud, just who do M&S think would wear it?
The last great M&S faux pas was the shocking pink dress that filled rack after rack in my local store's sale - another one that was supposedly 'flying off the shelves' ?

Seriously. It is hideous and a truly awful colour. No wonder Marks and Spencer is no longer the successful company it once was. They lost all but the food plot years ago.

Agree with everyone, looks like something out of Little Women.

When I was 14, I had a Saturday job in the ladies underwear dept of the Co-op. All the corsets, girdles etc were that colour.
At sale time, the dept was awash with "germoline pink" underwear and old ladies battling over the bargains, then they would ask to be "fitted".
I used to blush really badly, as they would strip off and ask for help to put the underwear on.
I've disliked it ever since.

I’m afraid I can’t claim credit for ‘germolene pink’.
I first heard it used in a critical article about the National Trust, who had used it to paint the outside of one of their properties to universal derision

It is so difficult to get nicely tailored and elegant clothes these days. Everything - even quite expensive clothes - seems to be shapeless, lacking in style and quite often in very garish colours or with loud patterns.

I don't think it's just an age think either - in my opinion, even the clothes available to young people aren't very attractive. I believe that's why we have such a throwaway culture. Clothes don't look great to start with and after a few washes look even less impressive. I wear some clothes that I have had for years and I think they have kept their shape and still look nice. Quality seems to have gone out the window.

I was trying to work out the colour of the dress from the photo was it pink or peach?

Thank you Jane Germolene pink

Floaty black and white will be fine.

Pale pink non-floaty cotton is just, um, I struggle to find the words....

Germolene pink

That colour never did anything for me even when I was young!

Awful. I suppose it is considered fashionably retro now.

beeb I’m sure you will look lovely.
The problem with the dress under discussion is more the colour than the design, imo.
Germolene pink is probably fine on 20-somethings but not very flattering on older faces.
Black and white is a quite different effect and will look striking. Enjoy your DS’ birthday ?

OMG! M and S are at it again. Who on earth do they think is their target market? The only good thing about that dress is that it's made of 100% cotton, quite a rare thing these days. I had a look in M and S yesterday and noticed most of their dresses are made of the modern version of crimplene. Yuk.

Ooooh dear. I’ve just bought similar style in black and white. All floaty. Thought I looked lovely. Got it for sons 40th birthday.

Better have a rethink!

Quite apart from the horribleness of that dress, which we all seem to agree about ( unusual for GNetters to agree about anything) , I hate the expression "must have". Who says? Why? Is your life so pathetic that you think you are defined by what you have?

You will keep getting all kinds of lovely outfits popping up now MaizieD

Going by my family - 17 to 70 - not of one of us would wear it. Don't think even 7 year old GD would!

Must avoid - at all costs!

I think the DM article must have a typo - it's not a 'must have' dress, but a 'must laugh' dress.

Hahahaha, lol. That'll learn ya, Maizie!

Nooo! It's vile.

I can't believe we wore anything as hideous as that in the 70s

But now I've looked at it on the M& S site the thing that tailors adverts to you thinks I like it and it's popping up on my sidebar. Aarrgghh....

Well I went to Newcastle this afternoon for a bit of retail therapy and got this in M&S. £17.99 and I'm very pleased with it

Dear me!

Wouldn't even want to hop in my box in that!!

I'd look like an old sack of potatoes in that shapeless thing.