Latest must have dress from M&S.

I think it's the colour of old ladies bloomers. I cannot think of any woman, of any age, who would look good in that dress. The dresses in the 70s weren't gathered with several layers of knicker elastic around the waist like that one, and they were better cut too.

I'm sitting here wearing it now. I think I look lovely
(Lie alert!!)

Too early for an April Fool's day joke. Maybe it could be used as a shroud - 'though I wouldn't be seen dead in it.

I note there is no photo of someone modelling it. They'd be a laughing stock.

It's almost as though M & S have a death wish, isn't it? Maybe they want to close more than 14 stores and they're going about it by only stocking fancy dress?

Wow, just wow, how hideous is that

Err. Not for me. Oh dear m&s, think I’ll pass on this one.

I think I could be mistaken for a yurt if I wore that.

MissA

MissAdventure

The elastic parts remind me of when my mum would sew shirring elastic into our socks and things. Not sure shirring is a word, but it sounded like that.

That's what my mum would have called it too, MissAdventure. It reminds me of the Beverly Hillbillies. Don't know why. Sort of thing they'd have for Sunday best.

There must be so many talented designers coming out of colleges and M&S are managing not to employ any of them!

Grannyactivist not sure where you sister went in the 60 s but I was in mini skits (very mini) and high white boots Never wore anything like that looks more Victorian than 60s

Here's the page from the Mail Online. Scroll down to see a model wearing the dress.
HERE I don't think it looks any better on an actual person.

Its set to 'fly off the shelves'.
It really could, if a strong gust of wind got underneath it.

Good grief, Charlie Brown. I was hoping it would be a cute wrap dress..this one is beyond awful.

It is hideous. It looks very dowdy and prim and proper and the colour is awful.

I don't understand the 'must have' urge. I only hanker after things I like, not things featured in papers, magazines or on line. It implies that if you don't get it you are missing out and not keeping up with trends. Silly marketing ploy which some people fall for.

It's akin to being ripped off because you'll only buy designer labelled goods at highly inflated prices. If people cannot think for themselves I feel sorry for them.

Laura Ashley with a big floppy hat was more 70s I think - strolling barefoot through the meadows, preferably with a mini-me tot dressed in an identical dress and cute straw hat.

MissA Hahahaha.

MissA

Style blogger Emily Johnston - better known as Fashion Foie Gras, was one of dozens of people who raved about the dress online

Surely no-one, but no-one would called themselves Fashion Foie Gras??
Fat Liver ??

Tell me it's not true

I have always considered that M&S designed its clothes for women 20 years older than me.

I am now 75 so I assume it is the latest fashion in shrouds, it certainly looks like it.

saw it today in bright yellow. ?

M0nica !!

Dreadful and the other dresses are hideous too.

Miss A, so funny.

Jalima, you brought back memories for me of DD1 and I with matching long dresses in the early seventies. They were nice though, dark backgrounds with a floral print. DD was so tiny then and loved hers, she is 44 now.