The M&S press day this week gave me another look at their menswear for next Spring and Summer. Bold checks and colours reflect Marks & Spencer's increasing confidence, offering classics enhanced with modern cuts, as shown in the image below.
And the confidence is well-justified. There are some lovely clothes, all marked with great attention to quality and detail. There's not much here I wouldn't be happy to wear. Indeed, I'm hoping, in the new year, to repeat my recent Guardian photo-shoot to show that M&S are offering quality and style fit for all ages of man.
I've talked about their Best of British collection before - and the sharp tailoring, checks and dapper silhouettes that it introduced are now filtering into the Sartorial and other collections, giving a logical uniformity to the menswear range; a sure sign that M&S feel they are getting it right.
Overall, I still feel there's a bit of confusion between the different collections, but this is a minor quibble and the wide choice doesn't undermine the quality of the offering and the richness of the choice.
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| M&S Best of British SS14 |
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| M&S Best of British 2014 |
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Wow - looks v good. At present M&S also have an excellent range of tweedy jackets in store from £99 upwards -- excellent value and very nice looking: hard to choose which to get.
ReplyDeleteJust bought a very good-looking pair of boots from them too, at what I thought was a great price.
I am also excited by this collection. M&S now ship to USA and Canada at very low (and often free) shipping rates. They also have an excellent returns policy.
ReplyDeleteI will be moving to London in the next few months and am excited to assess (and hopefully purchase) some of this collection at that time.
It only remains for people now to support M&S by actually spending money in their stores!
Mark
Looks good, but I hope they get the quality right.
ReplyDeleteI bought a nice linen jacket there last summer, but ended up returning it. Polyester lining seems to defeat the purpose of linen.
A lot of their current tweed jackets have polyester linings, while jackets of theirs I own from a few years back all have viscose lining.
Stil, for what they charge, the range and quality (and fit) is usually good.
The Prince of Wales Check bow-tie is a good look!
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