https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/metallics-closing-down-sale-and-skirt-question Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:39:27 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/metallics-closing-down-sale-and-skirt-question#post-1924146 Thu, 31 May 2018 11:48:27 +0000 anne 1924146@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks Deborah, I may check the section within myer tomorrow. I didn't know about the changes until I was looking into them after starting this thread. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/metallics-closing-down-sale-and-skirt-question#post-1924112 Thu, 31 May 2018 06:18:43 +0000 Deborah 1924112@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Anne if it helps I have a Metalicus tube skirt in a Small. Sad news indeed! But you probably know they were bought out by General Pants and changed the brand so much it was no longer recogniseable new range looked very like Kookai. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/metallics-closing-down-sale-and-skirt-question#post-1923935 Wed, 30 May 2018 13:40:31 +0000 Lucy 1923935@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes I am totally with Brooklyn on this! I got an email from them talking about their dress and my booty, and I decided it was time to unsubscribe.&nbsp;<br />As it had pretty much been my favourite everyday &nbsp;label (great for work and travel), I actually emailed them to say I was sad to see their change in direction (and that I found some of their new advertisements verging on offensive). I got some kind of auto reply, saying they had been sold, and they hoped i liked their "new direction".&nbsp;<br />If Metalicus had been serious about extending their customer base, they would have been better sticking to higher end great fabrics, but extending their sizes - I am a size 10-12 Australian and usually took a M-L size in Metalicus &nbsp;( I don't like clothes too body-con). I'm pretty sure a standard size 14 Australian (10 in the US) would have been sized out in many of their items.&nbsp;<br />So I'm another sad customer.&nbsp;</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/metallics-closing-down-sale-and-skirt-question#post-1923915 Wed, 30 May 2018 13:00:22 +0000 Bijou 1923915@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I did not know this so thank you for posting Anne. I have only ever bought their tops for layering under knits and dresses. They were a nice quality and always washed up well. I have never bought one of their skirts. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/metallics-closing-down-sale-and-skirt-question#post-1923888 Wed, 30 May 2018 10:10:02 +0000 Jenni NZ 1923888@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What a shame. I hadn't actually bought anything but had considered it a few times when I was in Kimberleys ( NZ) - a chain which also went under a few months ago. Weird how these brands don't seem to consider that their customers in their 40s and 50s are greater in number and more affluent than the young customers? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/metallics-closing-down-sale-and-skirt-question#post-1923869 Wed, 30 May 2018 08:46:26 +0000 anne 1923869@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks for the links Sal, some of which I saw too, but hadn't thought to post. </p> <p>Brooklyn, the store near me closed a while ago, and while I apparently did get their emails (just checked) I never read them as they went straight to the promotions folder! Sounding less and less like it is worth pursuing at all.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/metallics-closing-down-sale-and-skirt-question#post-1923829 Wed, 30 May 2018 01:12:31 +0000 Carla 1923829@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Bah! What a shame. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/metallics-closing-down-sale-and-skirt-question#post-1923822 Wed, 30 May 2018 00:56:48 +0000 Brooklyn 1923822@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yeah, I unsubscribed to them months ago because I was becoming increasingly offended by their marketing -&nbsp; referring to women as babes, captions like "hang up on him babe"&nbsp; (ie because you are so super hot&nbsp; in your dress) and featuring models with fingers in their mouths and other suggestive poses. I figured I was no longer in their target market! I do wonder what the thinking was there. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/metallics-closing-down-sale-and-skirt-question#post-1923786 Tue, 29 May 2018 21:12:31 +0000 Sal 1923786@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes I read something that said a lack of innovation.</p> <p>It is a really hard line I know - stick with the true and tested, or evolve and risk alienating the existing base.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/fashion/australian-fashion-brand-metalicus-collapses-20180510-p4zeg8.html">https://www.smh.com.au/lifesty.....0510-p4zeg</a></p> <p>This link is to a blog talking about the brand and their new marketing.</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.stylingyou.com.au/2018/03/iland-co-autumn-winter-2018/">https://www.stylingyou.com.au/.....nter-2018/</a></p> <p>(incidentally I have seen a few ïnfluencers" refer to all their followers as Babes... I don't know what to think about that) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/metallics-closing-down-sale-and-skirt-question#post-1923783 Tue, 29 May 2018 20:59:21 +0000 jussie 1923783@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sal: yes I remember they used to be all about layering.... and then some more layering. It was all about playing with different shapes and length on top of each other. Then the last few years they started including things that would seem to show a little more skin and cling a little more, not so much piling up the layers.<br /> I preferred the old metallicus but still liked their new style well enough to purchase a few pieces here and there. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/metallics-closing-down-sale-and-skirt-question#post-1923773 Tue, 29 May 2018 20:27:47 +0000 Sal 1923773@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It was General pants co that purchased them in 2016. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/metallics-closing-down-sale-and-skirt-question#post-1923771 Tue, 29 May 2018 20:23:06 +0000 Sal 1923771@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My understanding is that they were sold a couple of years back and then changed their core business - marketing to a much younger demographic - and they lost their goodwill and failed in the new market. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/metallics-closing-down-sale-and-skirt-question#post-1923677 Tue, 29 May 2018 15:00:05 +0000 Thistle 1923677@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am very sorry. I remember other fabbers loving their stuff.</p> <p>Seems like the retailapocolypse is spreading. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/metallics-closing-down-sale-and-skirt-question#post-1923676 Tue, 29 May 2018 14:53:00 +0000 anne 1923676@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm not sure if I ever did buy anything. It was more of an aspirational aim! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/metallics-closing-down-sale-and-skirt-question#post-1923673 Tue, 29 May 2018 14:51:39 +0000 anne 1923673@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Indeed it is, Suz<br /> BTW I have discovered there are no exchanges, except if faulty, so I am going to hold off unless I can try in store </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/metallics-closing-down-sale-and-skirt-question#post-1923630 Tue, 29 May 2018 12:34:25 +0000 Suz 1923630@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That is disappointing news even though I never shopped there! I adored seeing all the beautiful items that you and Brooklyn and Deborah and others had purchased there over the years.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/metallics-closing-down-sale-and-skirt-question#post-1923622 Tue, 29 May 2018 11:37:15 +0000 anne 1923622@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The one I am interested in had xs and s. Jussie. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/metallics-closing-down-sale-and-skirt-question#post-1923616 Tue, 29 May 2018 10:57:15 +0000 Style Fan 1923616@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>How sad.&nbsp; I loved seeing Metalicus clothing on lovely Deborah. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/metallics-closing-down-sale-and-skirt-question#post-1923615 Tue, 29 May 2018 10:47:10 +0000 jussie 1923615@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That is sad. &nbsp;I have always rather like Metalicus. As far as I know they generally just have two sizes: &nbsp;s-m size and l-xl size in their clothing. Someone may correct me on that. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/metallics-closing-down-sale-and-skirt-question#post-1923614 Tue, 29 May 2018 10:45:39 +0000 anne 1923614@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes, Deborah was keen on them! I'll contact her individually and ask her. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/metallics-closing-down-sale-and-skirt-question#post-1923588 Tue, 29 May 2018 08:53:03 +0000 lyn67 1923588@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, think our long time no seen/no heard about aussie Debs is then&nbsp; heartbroken:-((-it was her very own, nr 1 private brand, if remember well:-). </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/metallics-closing-down-sale-and-skirt-question#post-1923581 Tue, 29 May 2018 08:02:40 +0000 Sisi 1923581@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh no! I liked&nbsp;Metalicus clothing!&nbsp;I liked to see their things&nbsp;on Australian fabbers. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/metallics-closing-down-sale-and-skirt-question#post-1923580 Tue, 29 May 2018 07:52:17 +0000 rachylou 1923580@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh no! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/metallics-closing-down-sale-and-skirt-question#post-1923573 Tue, 29 May 2018 05:55:41 +0000 anne 1923573@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>For the Australians.<br /> You may already know that Metalicus is closing down.<br /> I am interested in their tube skirts and wondered what size to get.<br /> My waist is around 28 and hips 38 inches<br /> Any thoughts? </p>