this season's big look

BarbaraVilliers

BarbaraVilliers

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this season\'s big look

I must take my hat off to Hobbs. I had seen a black suit in a magazine. Gary took me to Hobbs on Saturday to see if I liked it (that husband of mine is a sweetie). The suit was delicious black wool long pencil skirt with fluted hem and lean nipped in jacket but alas the jacket hung on the waist. I had this superb assistant who spent an hour carefully pinning me into the jacket and pinning the skirt waistband. I hope she is on commision. I was astounded at the quality of clothing and service and the alterations a reasonable £40. Usually I loathe the chainstores but Hobbs can relieve my husband of money in such a good cause LOL.
Louise
 
I'm so glad you had a good experience there! I worked for Hobbs briefly back in the 90s and now feel reluctant to touch their stuff with a bargepole (but that's just because it wasn't a happy experience).

I once had an amazing pencil skirt from Miss Selfridge but I wore it to death and have never been able to find anything that comes close :(

Liz
 
You realize, Barbara, that pictures are mandatory once you get your new suit home... Don't you??? ;)

It sounds DIVINE!!!

xoxoxo
leisa
 
Leisa
I'm wearing it next Sunday with my new Prada shoes and Tyrwhitt shirt I shall get hubby to get the camera out if possible.
Louise
 
Good...if pencil skirts with jackets with nipped in waists are prevalant out there i may just go out and investigate. No Hobbs on this side of the ocean though.
 
Originally posted by BarbaraVilliers
Liz
What happened? if you don't mind me asking
Louise
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Ahh, it was just a very.....STRICT place to work. Window display had to be correct to the milimetre (or you had to go wading in to nudge a shoe so it WAS correct - thereby nudging all the correct shoes out of place), there was a dictatorship-style list of how you had to look to be a 'Hobbs Girl' (so patronising to this 'girl') - they even have control over your hair, the fact that others kept taking the credit for my sales because they wouldn't till-train me for ages, and you were required to ask the customers if they needed any help every five minutes. Even if they had politely told you to get lost because they just wanted to browse. I also didn't like the fact that Marilyn Anselm gets her name on every item of clothing, even though others design a large proportion of the collection.:flaming:

I'm obviously just not cut out for that type of establishment, and it offended me on many levels - although I'm sure it's certainly not unique to Hobbs.

Liz
 
There are a lot of places like that.

I worked at a shop (not clothing but sold accessories) once that sent you a "planagram" of exactly how they wanted their windows to look as well but at least it wasn't by the Millimeter.

My brother, however, worked in a very well known trendy shop and if they misfolded one shirt they had to do the whole stack of them over again even if correct. Perhaps to teach discipline, but i would be frustrated out of my mind if that were me. Many times folks at the corporate offices who had never manned a shop came up with the guidelines, not former shop workers who moved up. He worked their because he liked the clothes initially.
 
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