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Independent.co.uk
Independent.co.uk
When I was growing up, my teenage brain associated Marks and Spencer with one thing and one thing only, thanks to Bridget Jones: giant pants. The ultimate Noughties literary heroine immortalised in film never outright said her infamous “scary, stomach-holding-in pants very popular with grannies the world over” were from M&S, but I think it’s safe to say that we all just… assumed. Synonymous with “frumpy”, Mark and Sparks was where your mum and grandma shopped for outfits that nodded to trends without ever seeming to truly understand them, like an alien attempting to mimic human behaviour; it w…