Latest must have dress from M&S.

Should we Grans start a campaign for garments to be modelled on people who are a 'normal' shape and size and a more varied age range. Otherwise how are we supposed to have any idea how the things are going to look on us mere mortals?

So, maybe 5ft4ins, size 14 (ish) and aged about 50 for a start.

Ok, some of us will be bigger and some smaller, but how many of us are 5ft10ins and a size 8 fgs?

The model is 5' 10" and a size 8, and even she can't make it look good.

At least this one is 'only' £45.00!!

www.marksandspencer.com/pure-cotton-checked-shift-maxi-dress/p/p60161620?image=SD_01_T42_9003_E4_X_EC_90&color=BLUEMIX&prevPage=plp

Chewy, oh dear, oh dear.....

Ruffles seem to be everywhere. Surely not fit for anyone over 19!

Come on everyone we are missing a trick......it’s nearly April 1st. Apart from that I can’t add anything to what has already been said. Am I to take it that not even one Gransnet member likes it?!

It's the new Spring 2018 stock in Marks and Spencer hildajennij a snip at £89.00

That looks like the designer just made it up out of odds and ends of material lying about in the studio. It's frightful.

That is like something we would wear at Hallowe'en in the Argy

How about this little beauty?

Apparently, their latest must-have dress is now available. Can’t do a link on my phone ? but the dress looks like a stripey dressing gown or beach robe! It’s in the DM today.

All three labels are available in shops lemongrove but personally, I find department store changing rooms akin to the Seventh Circle of Hell and much prefer to try things on at home with the right shoes etc if appropriate.Returns are usually free and free delivery/click and collect from Waitrose for JL orders costs me less than driving into town and paying for parking.

I like to try things on Maw often what looks great online doesn’t fit or looks hideous when on!?

I bought some things in White Stuff.
Oh, it's 12.10 am

Well with 30%off everything from EAST, both online and at JL, 20% off White Stuff and 25% off Joules until midnight tonight, why bother?

I think it is because M&S was the default shop to go to for good basics for women over a certain age ( not old, let's say mature).
Anything more fashionable/trendy was purchased elsewhere

M&S is failing to recognise that and trying to be fashionable and failing miserably.

Now listen up everyone (as they say) - we are showing our age by calling this delightful shade of pink Germolene Pink - it is in fact known as Millennial Pink according to Vogue:

Millennial pink is fashion’s shade du jour. The sprightly hue first came to our attention at the spring/summer 2017 catwalks, with flashes at Valentino and Balenciaga
So how did an innocent Barbie-cum-salmon shade penetrate the cultural zeitgeist with such gravitas? And what makes it definitive of the millennial generation?
Could it be a lofty homage to Wes Anderson’s epochal film Grand Budapest Hotel, in which the seminal tone is practically its own character?
Whatever its catalyst, millennial pink is a tonal ubiquity to be reckoned with.

So there you have it - we're just not with it or 'of the moment' or whatever.

I agree, Maw. Especially as this particular dress had sold out in sizes 6, 8, 10 and 12 a couple of days after the thread started.

We did Maw.....to Debenhams, Next and Dorothy Perkins.
And I have to tell you, readers, that although things were slightly better there, not a lot!

Was in M&S today with a friend, she had lots of vouchers to spend.......we left after buying nothing! Didn’t see any germolene pink but acres of either greens or mustard/ochre
And what looked like camouflage gear.If you were young, tall, slim and pretty.....you would still have looked awful.
Still,we did have coffee and a lovely slice of cake there.

I can’t understand why it has become a national pastime (on GN at least) to devote all ,these column inches to knocking Marks &Sparks.
There are other retailers available you know.
Nobody ever seems to get into such a tizzy over Debenhams or House of Fraser.
So you don’t like what’s on offer?
Go elsewhere

Yet another nail in the coffin for M & S 'Fashion'. They should have got the message by now and simply change all their stores to stock just food and underwear. I suggest they re-brand them as 'M & S Gullet & Gusset'

I hate it! I would never have worn a dress like that. Is it a joke?

Depressing.

Awful, are they joking ??