/blog/kinky-knickers-by-mary-portas/ Build Your Homegrown Brand. Boost Local Manufacturing. Make Buying British a Doddle. Sat, 30 Aug 2025 22:20:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 /blog/kinky-knickers-by-mary-portas/#comment-6319957 Thu, 23 Jan 2014 14:13:10 +0000 /?p=2240#comment-6319957 I watched all the programmes and was really keen to support this British enterprise. My partner managed to get me 2 pairs for Christmas 2012 – not cheap at £20 and very hard to source, but he managed it. One pair is pink with the orangey rather fluorescent lace edging and a size small. The other is ivory, also small but significantly bigger than the pink pair. I’m a size 8 to 10 and the ivory pair was on the big side for me from the start. Also the colour was frankly dingy from the start – the knickers looked like a white pair which I had mistakenly put through a dark wash! And when they were washed they wore so badly, looking misshapen after omly a few washes. In particular the ivory pair quickly developed a hole.where the body joins the lace edging which is seriously baggy and saggy now. I am so disappointed and have worn them very rarely. I hate buying pants from China but have to be honest that the knickers I buy from M & S – often at £10 for 3 pairs – wear so much better and keep their colour and shape. I am saddened but not surprised that the company has just gone into administration.

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