Has M&S got the clothes market all sewn up?

IF YOU think Marks & Spencer can get no worse, look at its new season range and think again! Garish colours, huge hideous patterns and inappropriate frills and flounces on just about everything. Not to mention cheap, thin fabrics — oh dear! Who buys these clothes? Certainly not the mature women who were always its most loyal customers. Some of the stuff is so bad it’s almost comical. We who want well-cut, classic clothes in decent fabrics can only weep — and abandon ship! mrs ann martin, leics. Jill mcdonald (new head of the M&S clothing division) won’t have much of a problem identifying what’s wrong with the brand’s ladies’ clothes. Each year, M&S’s designs get worse. Most people i know just walk in and out again. They should take some advice from stores such as Sainsbury’s, which has a quick turnover of fashionable, reasonable quality clothes to suit all ages, shapes and sizes. Why can’t we have clothes like those once designed by George Davies under the Per Una label? i still have the lovely lace tops and all the gorgeous crinkly blouses. Please sort it Jill, otherwise there’ll be more and more Simply Food stores and another staple of the High Street will disappear. mrs berenice stansfield, Wye, Kent. THE M&S capsule wardrobe, good idea — unfortunately it’s a capsule into outer space. Shapeless dresses, horrible sleeves and a strange trouser suit. It’s trying to emulate the Seventies and not succeeding. Dresses you can wear in winter? If you live in Tenerife, maybe. My six-year-old granddaughter could have designed better! ann langford, lower Willingdon, e. sussex.