[Pauline]

I've been out shopping locally today and decided to try on a couple of items in my local Marks and Spencer in Worcester. I can only say the mirrors in the fitting rooms are soul destroying. They were once quite flattering there, and at least made you feel normal until they revamped the store this past year and took in the old Woolworths for extra space. Whilst the revamped store is very nice the fitting room mirrors and lack of cheval mirrors is noticeable. My sister says the changing room trio mirrors give just as bad a reflection in the M&S at Cardiff. So what is happening to M&S mirrors right now? They are very unkind to the body and used to be so much better. In the past one looked human.

After that try-on I then popped over to House of Fraser and one of the assistants said I looked nice. I thanked her but replied that ever since looking in the M&S mirrors an hour before I had felt frumpy. Then three of the assistants also got to discussing the mirrors in M&S. I thought it was me, but they all said how bad they now looked in the mirrors at that particular store, including a young assistant with a very good figure.

I think my own mirrors are neither flattering or unflattering, just normal, I look the same in all of them wherever in my house, so was relieved when a dress I decided to give another chance did indeed look far better in my own cheval mirror at home. It seems short sighted to spend so much money revamping a store and making the fitting rooms a place where customers hate looking at themselves.

Members tell us the towns with the worst store mirrors or the most unrealistically flattering of mirrors. I'll be checking some out in London shops next week too.

[Melody&Lime]

Coincidently I went shopping in Asda last week(as I have no money and Im a cheapskate anyway)and found some trousers which I thought would do for work.I went to try them on and accidently looked at my legs when I didnt have the trousers on.I felt like one of those people in the 'too overweight to get through the front door' documentaries.My legs looked like they had an overhang.
Now as I have partly come to terms with the fact that I am overweight and obviously this is the main cause of the hideous sight I saw, I still think the mirrors should have been thought about more if the shop expects me to feel good about myself while trying on their clothes.

[Sharon]

This is also true about the stores by me in the US that have different types of mirrors in each dressing room. It's like being in a fun house! One mirror made me feel like I needed to gain weight while another made me feel short and plump! I asked the dressing room attendant and she said the "Skinny" mirrors were brand new. I could only guess they were put in there as a deceptive device to flatter each woman's thinking to how trim she looks in their outfits. The only resolution was to use the store mirrors where I looked normal. Why don't they just leave things alone? Do they really think women don't have mirrors at home?

[Ben]

I think maybe the lighting and illumination

as we know, the stores illumination is very important, good illumination can make the clothers, goods, and you looks very pretty