How fashion fans are shopping vintage M&S, Topshop and Ralph Lauren for 'better quality' clothes - as Sewing Bee host Patrick Grant goes on rampage against high street brands Patrick Grant moaned about the quality of high street knits in a recent interview Read More: Swimwear reaches Saudi Arabia! Models strut the catwalk in bikinis for the first time ever at Red Sea Fashion Week By Lydia Hawken For Mailonline Published: 13:50, 22 May 2024 | Updated: 13:53, 22 May 2024 e-mail View comments Have you felt the quality of high street clothes dip in recent years? Then you're certainly not alone. Earlier this month, The Great British Sewing Bee judge Patrick Grant went on a rampage against the current state of the fashion industry in the UK. Speaking to The Guardian , the presenter and entrepreneur explained how a member of the BBC production team bought him some disappointing M&S socks.
The expert fumed: 'I put these socks on, I was like ...
Is this what people wear on their feet now? They felt like tights. They were thin and sort of synthetic-y and flabby and bloody horrible. 'The jumpers that I bought from Marks & Spencer in the 80s, I’ve still got some of them.
They’re brilliant. And the jumpers that you buy now, that are £30 from Marks & Spencer, they’re total s**t. They’re not the same thing.
' Pictured: The Great British Sewing Bee judges Patrick Grant and Esme Young. Patrick recently complained about the quality of high street jumpers And Patrick isn't the only one .
