I first bought your products at Allders in Leeds when I discovered them in 1999. The colours and materials and design and fitting were wonderful. I also found your products in Edinburgh and Debenhams, London. Again, the materials and fabrics, designs and colours- especially the CREATIVITY of the DESIGNS- were first class. I got 2 light green skirts. Short-sleeved dark green and navy tops with buttons. A marvellous button-down short-sleeve top with a white background and vertical winding sift green lines like grasses In 2004, Real DELICACY. I bought 2 navy skirts-well-made but too dark. In 2002, for 2 weddings I got 2 outfits. One red top and skirt on a good fabric with a small decoration on the top pocket and on the waist, a navy outfit on good fabric with small white lines (NOT dots) here and there. I still have and wear these clothes with nostalgia. Then something happened. 4 deaths in my family. I bought a lovely OUTFIT from you, navy buttoned top and skirt with muted gentle violet flowers, not too many. At the Debenhams sale, I bought the winter coat I wear now- beige imitation suede, and 3 button-down tops I wear today. Also pull-over tops, one with a blue and red pattern on a white background I like NOW. Good quality and varied ORIGINALITY. Then sadly I had to go to Wimbledon by train from Waterloo. There I bought a wonderful navy blazer with good soft material and a gentle curve to the lines of the collar. It was sadly damaged after 2 years. I also got a wonderful white satin blouse with sleeves that opened out before the wrist I still wear- you sold it in RED! too. Sometime I got a satin blouse with an asymmetrical hem, white with a soft black geometrical pattern, also CREATIVE and STIll WORN. Then a catastrophe! All your shops shut! I could not see your choice in the real colours and fabrics when you went on line. WHY? I bought 2 lovely LINEN shirts in TEAL and LAVENDER. I am STILL WAITING for their RETURN. Your skirts became monotonously DARK and in bad taste- with 1 exception- the blue linen one with a button at the waist. No blue, green or violet. Yet garish ORANGE appeared. NOT DELICATE. General Worse Taste for the Ordinary shopper. You clearly got a BAD DESIGNER. Your fabrics, colours are WORSE. Patterns? PATHETIC. You are SAVING on SKIRT BUTTONS! I have had to have them attached by a professional at extra Cost. Sadly, the SKIRTS and BLOUSES/SHIRTS are LONGER as well as Darker. There are NO OUTFITS of SKIRT and TOP that suit different occasions and LOOK NICE. Even EVANS has better quality than you, and more cheerful. A plum satin blouse from them is better than anything you have had in a long while. I am glad and sad that I have found Simply Be, connected to Fifty Plus, my age now. Redoute have some nice things. But you are BORING NOW. I am RETURNING the COBALT TOP that just ARRIVED because there are GREY MARKS and DiSCOLORATIONS on the SHOULDER. You are just trying to get rid of worse quality. I bought 3 beige and white linen skirts from you. To DYE THEM the TEAL and LAVENDER you had before. I am a WOMAN. FEMININE I hope. NOT DEAD yet. I like to socialise- and NOT in Black, grey or brown. The average British woman is 5 feet 5 inches. NOT 5' 10". The blouses therefore have the breasts too LOW DOWN for the average woman. This discoloured new COBALT one, I am NOT TRYING on to find WHERE you put the breasts THIS TIME. Women (who LOOK LIKE ATHLETIC MEN) in BLACK TROUSERS are modelling the TOPS. You have NOT ONE SKIRT? Few WOMEN go for WOODLAND WALKS in BLACK FREQUENTLY. What went wrong? Your MANAGEMENT have gone mad. It is very sad. I hope you appreciate my effort and that You will give me FEEDBACK. verdelenah@gmail.com