MORE & MORE GmbH: A Straight Answer on German Daywear

Yes — it's a real German shop

Yes. If a friend texts “is this shop legit?”, that is the short version. MORE & MORE GmbH is a Munich-founded womenswear company, not a rented logo sitting on a marketplace stall. The checkout I used is more-and-more.de. I opened that site again on 27 September 2026 through the same Awin link this page carries, and the footer still named the GmbH, the Goldbach returns warehouse, and a German service desk.

After that, the useful question is narrower. Is it the shop you think it is, or a lookalike with a similar English name? Stick to the .de domain. I am not going to recite a corporate timeline. Founded in Munich in the early eighties, sold through its own stores and through wholesale, now with an online cart that ships inside the EU. That is enough history for a purchase decision.

Here is where I got stuck the first time: the site looks calmer than a fast-fashion grid, so people assume either luxury pricing or a boutique that will not ship. Neither is true. You are looking at German ready-to-wear for women who already own jeans and a winter coat and need the layer in between. Knit, woven, tailored-ish. Not costume.

What the racks are actually for

The assortment is daywear first. Blouses, knits, trousers, skirts, light coats, the odd occasion dress if a wedding lands on a Saturday. Cuts sit in that Munich-middle register: a bit of shape, not a lot of theatre. If you need a sequin column for a gala, you are on the wrong site. If you need something that can sit through a two-hour meeting without the waistband filing a complaint, you are closer.

Fabric notes on the product pages lean toward viscose blends, cotton, and the jersey that German mid-range houses like. Some tiles flag more responsible fibres. I did not audit a mill. I also did not invent a score. When a composition is unpublished on the tile, open the care panel before you pay. That is the only honest move.

The clothes, when they work, behave like a spare house key. You do not photograph a spare key. You notice it when the first one is still in the other coat, and you get home anyway. A MORE & MORE piece is meant to do that kind of quiet job: cover a Monday, survive a wash, look fine next to last year's denim. That is my one comparison, and I am leaving it there.

Who should bother

This shop is for women who already dress in a German or wider-EU closet and want another layer that does not shout a season. Office hours, school pickup, a train to another city. You know your usual size in continental numbering. You can wait two days in Germany, or three to seven working days elsewhere in the Union. You will use a fourteen-day withdrawal if the sleeve is wrong.

It also suits people who would rather order two sizes of one shape than drive to a mall on a Saturday. Guest checkout is allowed. You do not need a customer account. If you already have an older login, the rebuilt shop may ask you to reset the password once. That is a nuisance, not a warning sign. I would still keep the confirmation mail; if a unit vanishes between click and pick, that mail is the only paper you have.

Who should close the tab

Skip it if any of this is you. I am not being coy. The brand is not broken. It is just the wrong tool for a few very ordinary needs, and those needs keep showing up in my inbox as if the site hid them.

• You need a same-day high-street fitting. The online cart will not put a garment on your shoulders this afternoon, and the brand will not let you return a web order in a store.
• You live outside the European Union. The shop said, on the day I checked, that it does not ship beyond the EU.
• You want express. There is no express option. Same-day dispatch is common; same-day arrival is not a promise.
• You planned to change or cancel after the confirmation mail. The warehouse starts moving. Your tool after that is a refusal or a return, not an edit button.
• You shop for weekly micro-trends and expect a new drop every Thursday. This house does seasons, not a content calendar.
• You need to swap a store receipt through the website, or drop a parcel at a MORE & MORE branch. Those channels do not cross.

The same-day fitting point is the one I would repeat to a friend. If you are standing near a pedestrian zone and you want a salesperson with pins, go to a store with your own ticket. Online stock and floor stock are separate. Trying to force them together is how people end up with a parcel they cannot hand back at the till.

Two garments, then I stop naming

I will name two pieces and then I will stop, because a catalog dump helps no one. First, the jersey blazer. On 27 September 2026 the live tiles I opened sat around seventy euros on sale and about one hundred twenty euros before a markdown. Lined versions run a little higher. It is the item I would actually use: soft enough for a desk chair, structured enough that you do not look like you left the house in a cardigan.

Second, a knit midi dress. Full price often lands near one hundred thirty euros; sale rows I saw dipped toward eighty. That is not a promise that your size is in the low band. It is a range. I am not listing article numbers. If the page starts reading like a stock sheet, close it and go back to the photo and the centimetre length.

Everything else in the shop is a variation on those two ideas: a shaped top layer, or a one-piece you can walk in. Trousers and blouses fill the gaps. I am not naming them. Sale banners can show half off. Treat the banner as a date-stamped offer, not a personality.

I would rather keep one jersey blazer that survives a Monday train than collect five jackets that only look expensive on a hanger.

— Sophie Winters

Quick tangent, then I will come back. I once watched a colleague hunt “more and more fashion” in English and land on a Canadian-looking grid with a different returns desk. The photos were fine. The legal name was not MORE & MORE GmbH. If the URL is not more-and-more.de, you are not in the checkout I am describing.

How the cart works

Buying is ordinary, which is the compliment. Add a size, or two if you are between cuts. You can check out as a guest. The shop wants a delivery name, a ship-to address, and a bill-to address. After you confirm, you cannot rewrite the order. If the last unit sells twice at the same second, one confirmation gets cancelled by mail. Annoying. Also published. The catch: a “we received it” mail is not the same as a shipping mail. Wait for the DHL number before you start refreshing a tracking page that does not exist yet.

Payment on the day I looked: Visa, Mastercard, American Express, PayPal, Klarna pay-now and pay-later, iDeal for the Netherlands, EPS for Austria, and invoice through Ratepay. Cards and wallets move the parcel faster than a debit mandate. The invoice PDF rides along with the dispatch mail, not with the first “we got it” note. Check spam if that second mail is missing.

• Confirm you are on more-and-more.de and that the legal footer names MORE & MORE GmbH.
• Read the size chart and the length in centimetres for your usual continental size.
• Enter one voucher if you have one. Two codes will not stack, and leftover credit is not paid out as cash.
• Pick a payment method you can actually finish. Invoice and Klarna have their own credit checks.
• Watch for the dispatch mail with the DHL number. Germany often sees the box within forty-eight hours; other EU addresses take three to seven working days.

Money you will actually pay

Germany: shipping is free, no minimum. You still pay a one-euro lump for insurance and wrapping on every order. That one euro is easy to miss if you only read the “free delivery” badge. The garment prices I quoted above already include German VAT as the shop prints it. I am not adding a second tax story on top.

• Germany: no shipping charge, plus one euro for packing and insurance.
• Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland: two euros ninety-five for shipping, plus that same one-euro packing line.
• Mainland France, Luxembourg, the Czech Republic: four euros ninety-five for shipping, plus the packing line.
• Other EU countries the shop lists, mainland only where they say so: seven euros ninety-five for shipping, plus packing.
• Returns from Germany or Austria: no return postage if you use their label.
• Returns from Belgium or the Netherlands: two euros ninety-five taken off the refund.
• Returns from the rest of the listed EU: nine euros ninety-five taken off the refund.

Those are the published bands I copied on 27 September 2026. If a country is missing from the list, assume it is unpublished, not free. The shop does not currently offer addresses outside the Union. I am not going to invent a Swiss or British rate and hope you do not notice.

Limits the help page does not soften

No express. No in-store return for a web order. No web return for a till receipt. No merging two orders into one return box if you want a clean refund. No size exchange: you send the first piece back and you place a second order. After the parcel is scanned, refunds can sit for up to fourteen days while Goldbach checks the goods. A payment reminder can cross a credit in the post; matching may take five working days.

Customer service answers Monday to Friday, half past nine to six, German time, on the number printed in the footer, or at service@more-and-more.de. I did not call them for this piece, so I will not pretend I timed a hold queue. If a parcel sits on the same DHL status for more than five working days, that address is the one you use. Keep the carrier slip. It is the only proof of the send date if Goldbach asks.

A dated look at the live site

On 27 September 2026 the home page was pushing autumn colour — burgundy, a layering story, pink used as a small hit rather than a whole outfit. I am not treating a campaign tile as a permanent catalog. Campaigns rotate. Stock rotates faster. If a size is gone, it is gone; the system would rather cancel than ship air. Lengths are printed in centimetres for a sample size, usually thirty-six. Measure a jacket you already like against that number instead of guessing from a model photo.

What stayed unpublished: a live count of stores, a guaranteed mill audit, and any claim that a fabric will last a stated number of seasons. I will not fill those gaps. Care labels still matter more than a mood board. Wash what the panel says. Do not invent a dry-clean rule because a photo looks costly.

Checkout questions I would ask

Do I need an account? No. Guest checkout works. An account only helps if you want old orders in one place. If an old password fails, use the reset link once; the shop was rebuilt and leftover logins often die on first try. That is a rebuild artifact, not a lockout scam.

Can I change the order after I pay? No. The warehouse starts. Refuse the parcel or use the fourteen-day return. Do not write to service hoping for a quiet edit unless the confirmation never arrived. If two people bought the last unit at once, one of you gets a cancel mail. Place the order again or walk away.

Which payments actually clear? Cards, PayPal, Klarna, iDeal, EPS, and Ratepay invoice. iDeal is for Dutch checkouts. EPS is for Austrian ones. Invoice is a credit product, not a courtesy. If Ratepay says no, pick a card. A reminder can land while a payment is still matching; the shop says that matching can take five working days.

When does the box show up? In Germany, often inside forty-eight hours if you ordered on a weekday. Other EU addresses: three to seven working days. Debit-mandate payments can sit a few extra days before the warehouse releases the bag. Holidays slip. There is still no express button if you are late for a Friday dinner.

Is a return free? From Germany and Austria, yes, if you use the brand label. Belgium and the Netherlands pay two euros ninety-five. Everyone else on the EU list pays nine euros ninety-five, taken from the refund. German labels reprint at the German return portal; Austrian orders print from the Austrian one. Keep the carrier slip.

Can I switch sizes in the same order? No swap. Send the first piece back. Place a new order for the other size. If you are unsure, order both sizes at once and return one. That costs you the one-euro packing line twice if you split the idea into two checkouts, so do it in one cart if you can.

Can I hand an online order to a store? No. Branches will not take the web parcel. The return address is MORE & MORE GmbH care of Alt Finecom Logistics in Goldbach. Austria has no label in the box; you print one from their portal. Store receipts go back to the store. Do not mix the two tickets.

If the fit still makes sense

If you wanted a same-day high-street fitting, you already know to walk past. If you wanted a German daywear shop with a boring, published fee list, this is that shop. I would open the jersey blazer and the knit midi, ignore the rest of the grid, and decide from the centimetre length and the return math. That is the whole job.