Gransnet forums

Style & beauty

Where can I shop for clothes? Help!!

(55 Posts)
StephLP Sat 14-Aug-21 14:53:25

Ages since we've been to a wedding. Looked forward to shopping for an outfit. Took the bus to our local city centre - and couldn't find a thing to wear! My go to shop would have been the large Debenhams store with all the decent brands but that has closed. Walked up to where another shop used to be - that had closed. M&S and Roman Originals just had lots of sale racks and nothing that looked right for a wedding. An hour later I took the bus home. Where do you 'ladies of a certain age' shop for smart clothes please?

MissAdventure Tue 10-May-22 19:02:48

Usually threads are revitalised by spammers.
Or, someone starts giving advice on a problem someone had 10 years ago.

Apart from that though, a lot of info is still relative even on old threads.

MawtheMerrier Tue 10-May-22 19:27:10

JackyB

MerylStreep

Look at the date zombie thread.

The couple may not even be together any more.

Sorry, that wasn't nice. I hope they're happy and have had babies in the meantime.

August 2021 to May 2022 isn’t exactly ages is it? Not a lot of time to have babies and /or split up as has been suggested.
And with the various lockdowns who’s to say the wedding wasn’t postponed to this summer anyway?

HettyBetty Tue 10-May-22 19:30:48

I don't wear dresses very often but bought a lovely dress in a charity shop for £9.99 recently. I will have a couple of occasions to go to in the next year and it will do for at least one if those.

Witzend Tue 10-May-22 19:46:30

I finally found a really nice dress for dd’s wedding online at Poetry. I didn’t want anything typically ‘mother of the bride’, just a day dress suitable for weather that could well be hot. And nothing too short, tight, sleeveless, or frumpy!

Evidently a tall order! I’d already tried a personal shopper at John Lewis and at least one other shop, but there was nothing. Plenty of lovely things if I’d still been 39, a size 10, and happy with sleeveless, though.