With some of the hosts and designers, they say what size they are wearing and what they say seems to be a falsehood. Meaning they appear to wear a bigger size in reality. Sometimes the clothing is skin tight and not really attractive. You see this on QVC also. It is hard for me to know what size to order but I am getting better at examining the fit in the presentation and being careful to think first. That means I order way less.

I started watching both HSN and QVC about 2018 I think. I really liked the fashions but now it appears every designer makes the same clothing style. All the sequin designs looked the same. And some of the ones I really liked at the beginning are using that cheap polyester fabric where you can see the lumps and bumps even if the host says you can’t.

Isn’t this typical for clothing nowadays? I find just about every brand even at stores is differently sized for things marked the same size. Very frustrating.

Anything cheap and made in China out of polyester is usually a fail in my experience. The fabric pills and looks bad quickly.

I personally wear the fleece quarter zip women’s wear from Lands End. They put them on sail. I love them and wear a thick cotton shirt underneath or a “base layer” from Lands End underneath. Depending on how cold.

I don’t wear this outside but my “Comfy” brand warm throw is the warmest thing I have for watching TV or reading a book.

I tend to watch during the commercials for other TV shows, football games, etc. This limits my irritation of the hosts overly talking or saying WOW about a product. It is a sales presentation after all.

All DG jeans have had a horrible smell for me but tend to fit my body well. Sam says they use real indigo which most manufacturers do not and I wonder if this is the smell of the indigo.

I just washed a new pair that fits like a dream, very comfortable, but washed about 8 times before I got 90% of the odor out.

I wore them yesterday and the smell has lessened. One has to use a pre-wash, a regular wash, and double rinse. Also use something like an oxyclean product. Then do the same wash again. This takes off some of the odor. Some is the operative word.

Peter Thomas Roth retinol products., sold on QVC with sale prices or go to Target and get the one ounce blue bottle and try it. Not cheap but it works for me. Retinol is what works on lines and wrinkles. I am told I look 10 years younger but I tell you what, my physical health sucks even after years of eating right and taking care of my body. Sometimes things happen to us in life or we get bad DNA.

If you want, use one of those instant lift products that last about 12 hours. Everyone sells one. I

I do use Skinn’s neck product and am seeing good results. I do not find results with most of the stuff they sell on HSN. I do love Nakery Skin Repair and Double Collegen skin cream. It helps with the older age skin crepeyness on my arms and legs. It even helps a bit with all the sun damage I have on my arms from long ago baking in the sun.

Someone told me to read the ingredients in the Signature Club A products I bought. As soon as they arrive they are going right back to HSN. Not clean enough beauty for my sensitive skin unfortunately. Thank you to whomever suggested reading labels which I should have known better.

I was watching Signature Club A a few days ago and bought the day and night cream and the eye cream. Now I read about the ingredients and will likely send it back. Sigh.

I have been using Peter Thomas Roth retinol in the evening, gently around the eyes also, and I have very few wrinkles. I typically buy on QVC sales. I just wanted to try something new with Signature Club A yet I prefer clean beauty. I also bought the Nakery product mentioned for my arms and legs.

I found the newer Skinn product for the neck with the gold lid to actually be working. Skinn has not worked for me in the past. So that is a win.

I’ve tried Prai, too. With mixed results.

Yikes, I just bought the Nakery collegen, peptides, and retinol. I have used Peter Thomas Roth products with much success. I have not found any Nakery products to work on me so why I purchased these is crazy. I’m going to see if I can cancel.

I’m kind of between a rock and a hard place with not liking and still sometimes watching both QVC and HSN. I can’t stand so many of the hosts and how fast they talk and how almost manic they act so the customer buys NOW. Apparently, the move is happening because you can tell how one host is on constantly and the set looks the same over and over. I don’t really care where HSN lives. A

nd both channels have hosts that exaggerate the product but that is their job to sell. I used to love HSN and found it before the pandemic. I liked the clothing and quality and then it seemed like stuff got to be the cheap polyester with wild patterns I don’t wear. Stuff that fit in one size always, even the same size in your closet, arrived not fitting, being extremely tight or too loose or baggy one leg, tight the other, long one leg, short the other.

I am just venting here. Many of you like certain hosts but I don’t have one I can watch for very long. And hearing “many of you are getting more than one so hurry to order” or telling us to rush and order on the website. That is their job.

What a positive post and thank you, hol44. I have not seen this new host but will look for her.

I watch HSN when I get bored with commercials on other channels. I do not have favorites. I’ve been watching shopping channels for maybe 5-6 years. I do notice when the hosts start with the heavy sell stuff. The buy two. The oh my gosh 100 have flown out the door, hurry now if you want this. I do like Debbie D because she wears her honest size, her clothing fits properly, etc. I like the ones who describe the item, show the item fully. On the Q, I also avoid Jane T. I don’t care one wit about her family, going to NYC to stay with her daughter twice a month. Good grief, twice a month! Anyway, my advice is just watch for entertainment and not for serious shopping.

Honestly, I don’t believe anyone on HSN any longer when they say their size. Do you want to wear yours sausage tight with the wrinkles going across the thighs and legs of pants (horizontally). Look at the baggy jackets and notice the models and hosts can not naturally pull the front sides together to close it properly. Oh, they do that stretch across their front to show it stretches but the sides do not hang fully across the front. My main message is not to be mean but to say to consumers, be careful and really look at the model or the host as far as how the clothing fits on them in real life.

HSN is selling lower priced and lower quality versions of their clothing since about 2000-2001. I notice anything I purchase from HSN is lower quality material, lower quality control. Now, QVC seems to have stuck it out and is going back to more high dollar items. Both channels often sell the same version of an item, say it is frayed hem jeans or such. I notice it all looks about the same. Locally, I have to drive further to find the reasonable stores, our Kohl’s has gone downhill and shrunk in half and the Penney’s closed. So this year, I decided to order some newer clothes and get rid of the old stuff that I don’t like or don’t feel comfortable in. The winner seems to be QVC. I ordered Iman’s Ponte pants from HSN and they never arrived, but was refunded my money.

Angie, thank you. The smell to me has always been on every pair of DG2 jeans I have gotten for many years. I wash each pair about 8 times before wearing and the smell is still there on the last two pairs. Just faintly. I really like the fit of the last ones I got but the smell if it is formaldehyde is gross. Yuck.