Primark

I'll echo that, TS. Mrs Orchid and Miss Orchid do most of their 'ordinary' clothes shopping there. They're also keen on Internacionale (not sure if that's how it's spelt) for other kinds of bits and bobs.

But they'll hesitate if I offer to take them to Lidl :lol:
 
Sainsbury's clothes for women aren't bad either - planning on doing my Christmas shopping there for female friends and relations this year!
 
As a just very slightly more than petite woman, I find shopping for casual trousers or jeans horrendous. I can't stand bootcuts, they make any woman look six inches shorter unless she's six foot and seven stone, so I was driven reluctantly back to a posh shop where I found two pairs of lovely soft, jeansy-style trousers which also have the forgiving 5% Lycra (for 'ease of movement' - translation: yer fat bum won't split 'em when you bend over!). They were the cheapest in the shop and the ones which fit and were made the best. I AM hoping they'll last out the next ten years (or my lifetime - about the same, I'd imagine) as they cost £85 a pair. Bloody Norah! Do blokes pay this much for 'smart' jeans? (They don't have rivets - they're 'designer', not Levis.)
 
I got a lovely pair of jeans from Gap, Jon for £20 in the sale. However they are "distressed" jeans and have holes in them already!
 
:lol: Yeah - and then you swank off to a racecourse and see 'no jeans, no torn, ripped, or dirty clothing' at the entrance!
 
Much as I love The Gap they are terrible for jeans if you are female and not the 6ft, 7st, size 8 specimen that Jon is on about - they just can't get that some women don't have enormously long, tiny legs or might possess a waist!!!! Sadly they follow Spain's example - it is impossible to buy any type of trousers in Spain that aren't made for 6ft, leggy, size 8 women! (they can't accept the notion in Spain that some women have breasts either - they tend to make their tops for flat women.....) Of course the reason behind that is that Spanish women are notorious (much like Italian women) for being slim and leggy as they are all anorexic until they get married; after that they start to eat normally and put on 10st.

Marks and Next are pretty good for jeans for a woman with a waist - although I'm still a fan of men's Levi's, not that I have a pair at the moment!
 
I find the best long-legs jeans are Union Bay, but the bestestest I've had for ages is by Head Over Heels, in a sort of oatmeal colour. I've put on a teensy bit of weight (yeah, like a whole clothes size) so I'm keeping them in the hope of not looking like a sausage bursting out of its skin next time I wear them. The trouble I found with trying to wear men's jeans for riding, is that the crotch is much higher and there's a tendency to feel you're being sawed in half. Probably the Chums jeans are okay, though, as they cut them more high-waisted, as Ardross knows. <_<
 
I know nothing about Chums trousers at all - well not personally PDJ tells me however that he swears by them .
 
It's quite okay, you know. Don't you remember how we admired your leisure trousers at Brighton and Relkeel demanded to know your tailor? At first we thought you said, "Oh, he's one of my chums", but later, after three bottles of a particularly bad Mouton Cadet and further interrogation, what you actually said was, "Ish one of my Chumsh". No shame in that, no shame at all.
 
Chums trousers are all far too short in the leg for me. They should be perfect for Ardross.
 
It is a neatly built kind of boat which has a very broad beam in which can be stored great piles of clothes made up by apprentice tailors of India :P
 
TK Maxx is good for cheap designer jeans but like with most of these places you need to try them on to check the 34 isn't actually a 40 or that the large isn't a small.
 
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