Buying 'flippin' trousers

[Alex]

I bought these from M & S a few months back £26 they're very comfy as they're stretch material and you can get Short and Extra Short for all the short ***** like me.

[Mups]

I had a look in M & S today on my way home from the Opticians,  and I was shocked.
They haven't half gone down hill since I last looked in there.

I remember years ago when M & S had a bit of a reputation for being more for the older generation,  good quality clothes but a little dearer than the boutiquey type shops.
Not anymore!
Nearly pair of trousers in the whole shop was those with legs about 3ft wide.  I could have worn just the legs as a sort of body stocking!    Awful.   Either that,  or any others were the exact opposite and legs no wider than a drain pipe.    

Loads of the summer tops had peculiar bits added and sown on the bottom edges too.   
Then a lady about my ow n age came over to me out of the blue, and showed me a jumper she almost bought  but then didn't because they had put a load of black lace round the bottom of a jumper!
We began talking about the clothes there this year,  and she agreed with everything I said about the huge trousers,  and peculiar tops,  and she felt so strongly that she said she was going over to have a word with someone about it.
And why is everything made in Bangladesh too?    Doesn't this country make our clothes anymore?

I was fed up with finding nothing at all I would wear,  so wandered along to Primark.   
Again everything is foreign made,  not the best quality,  but a helluva lot cheaper than M&S.
I got two pairs of straight leg trousers with elastic waists there.    
 I've just got to cut about a foot off the length!   

[Raven]

If I'm in Perth I always root around in Matalan, Bonmarsh, and George. I like all the stuff I see in those places. But I buy a lot (too much) from Temu these days.  Bad Roxy, BAD.