M&S

gillybob
The money off offers are generated with an M&S Sparks card.
It is simply a loyalty card and every month the offers are sent to you by email and you choose which ones to activate.
The offers are on food, flowers, homewear, furniture and all clothing make-up and beauty.
The offer is automaticslly recognised as an active offer and deducted before you pay.
You can get one from any store.

I am unable to wear M&S underwear, the bras do not suit and the briefs rarely fit.
The mustard dress would not suit me as the colour tends to make my skin look jaundiced, not a fan of frills and bows either.
Liking the denim shirt, got an identical one in the wardrobe, cost me £9.99 in T K Maxx a few years ago. I have put a little bit on round the bay widow so now I wear the blouse open like a jacket.

Window, not round the widow, for goodness sake.

Nice to see that tencel is more eco friendly than a lot of fabrics. It used to be that if I saw a style I liked, they didn't have the colour or size or vice versa. Nowadays, I am trying hard to take into account how eco-friendly things are and that makes clothes buying more effort than I like!
Last year M&S' range was just awful but I have to wait until their things are in the sale to afford them unless it is for a really special occasion I am buying for.

M0nica
You'd have to ask those ladies who wear push up and padded bras, why they want to enhance their embonpoint.
As I don't need to enhance anything, I can't give you an answer.
My best guess is that their bosoms are not as perky or as full as they'd like.

I will still be wearing leggings/tunic this winter. Why not?

So frustrated with M&S again. Popped in to replace Body Sensor vest (bleached the sleeve, cleaning the sink!) walked round and round couldn’t find any vests at all. No staff around so in desperation asked lady at fitting room where they where? Somewhere near the tills......spent another ten minutes hunting and finally gave up. Went to tills to pay for a couple of small items, long queues hardly any staff. Put stuff back and went home to order online.

Do you think they are trying to drive us all online so they don’t have to pay staff, rents and rates? So frustrating!

I only buy jeans, chinos, t-shirts, vest tops, underwear, etc from M&S - can't be doing with frills, bows and embellishments.

However, my best buy from them this summer was a moss green corduroy jacket - it's so versatile and have worn it with jeans & dresses and it looks great.

I was intending to buy a denim jacket but decided the green cord would be more useful - wish I'd bought a black one as well. Of course they're no longer available!

Like many of us l like a particular style of bra and go for it each time but the M and S lingerie department is so enormous and has such a bewildering array of styles and the one l want always seems to be in the furthest flung corner of the department. I tend to go to Marks for underwear and basics, including their £17.50 cardigans in different colours. Our ladies' changing rooms are in the lingerie department and there are always hapless 50+ men sitting on the chairs outside waiting for their wives and trying to avoid eye-contact with the items on sale!

This is the pink tencel version of gillybob 's denim shirt. Same range and price £29.50.
They do a baby blue one too which is not advertised online for some reason. Quite baggy and a good weight.

I used to buy my bras from BHS. Simple plain white cotton ones, no padding or lacy bits. The ones I now get from M & S are ok, but preferred the others. The assistant at Marks said nothing really fitted me properly, which was disconcerting, but have to make the best of it. I’m a 34a. The BHS ones were a lot cheaper too.

if the tunic/legging thing has had its day, what can replace it please oh fashionistas?

I think dresses are back in fashion again, lots of young ones wearing them with trainers. I think M&S have a good range. I bought a summer long one which was so cool during the hot spell. I mostly buy their jeans which wear well, and knickers, which I wear for years until they fall apart! I love the tencel fabric and like some of the shirts. Bras I get from Berlei, not keen on M&S ones. I also like Hobbs and Seasalt, but they are more expensive than Marks. I am trying not to buy as much "stuff" but choose things that will last for ever, don't care about fashion and don't think I'm frumpy.

Gabriella, I give up As I don't need to enhance anything,. This where I came in.

What does it matter what size your boobs are and why on earth would anyone want to enhance them and where is the cut off point at whichyou stop enhancing?

I have been quite content to be 32B formost of my life without any need of enhancement. I look perfectly normal, can wear normal clothe and it has not inhibited my life in any way. My boobs are just there and I rarely give them a thought, except the occasional examitation for health reasons.

Now were we to discuss narrow sloping shoulders then I could wax eloquent or the problems of not having a waist....

Monica it matters to some people and it's their choice.

I could do with a bit of enhancing, but hey it's best to love what you've got - you don't know how long you've got it for......

I'm going to buy less this year and wear them more often. We are all buying too much.

? annepl. The clothing industry has a bigger carbon footprint than the airline and shipping industry combined. It's no good either to restrict plastic bag use if we freely buy polyester (non recycled) clothing which is made out of plastic.

I was in M and S the other day. One of their new line in dresses was a long-line skinny rib jumper which was ankle length. Fine if you are six feet tall and size 8. For everyone else?....?

M&S can be expensive on a pension; the only items I’ve bought from there recently are a feather and down gilet (worth every penny) and some basic elasticated waist trousers (great for caring for grandchildren). As I don’t work any more, I don’t need smart clothes except for cruises and the occasional family wedding.

www.marksandspencer.com/ditsy-floral-print-relaxed-midi-dress/p/p60275537?color=DARKREDMIX

I’ve just ordered this dress . It will either look nice and relaxed or like a sack of spuds . I’m going with the spuds but will see.

It's nice gillybob. Let us know how it looks.

If you recycle M&S clothing at Oxfam btw you get a £5 voucher to spend on clothing over £35 I think.

Goodness Lazigirl the fashion industry has a lot to answer for. I didn't know that.

It looks nice gillybob.

Before we put the clothing industry out of business and cause mass unemployment in developing countries, I think we need to acknowledge there must be some imprecision and guesswork regarding carbon footprints.