I’ve ordered a 2nd sack-of-potatoes dress

Also shoulders burn so easily. I can’t remember the last time my shoulders or upper arms were exposed to the world. I was a bit slack with sunscreen for a while, wanting my VitD levels to go up and I’ve now got very leathery skin so I now wear cotton layers. Apart from a brown tanned bit between my socks and the bottom of my leggings. My tanometer that shows me how brown I would have been without the covering.

Lara2, long sleeves can be surprisingly cool in hot weather but if I buy a dress with either elbow length or long sleeves, it's because of my 'bingo wings'. In the distant past, I had no qualms about sleeveless dresses. Ah....

Why long sleeves in hot weather? Surely strappy is the way to go?

I bought a similar style dress in linen from Woolovers. Mine is a colour called cayenne but there was lots of choice. Not too expensive either. Also came in plain or print.

when I lived in India, all the ladies who are at home, where a long loose dress, more like a nighty, and keep their churidor or sari to wear outdoors, always cool easy to wear and made perfect sense, although I kept to my shorts and t shirt and factor 20/30 every day.

I love the look of the dress, though not the price. Doubtless there will be similar, more affordable, garments around this summer. I always loved seersucker. One favourite, maybe 40 years ago, was my seersucker culottes. I suppose they went to a charity shop when fashions changed or I put on weight. Had I but known that this summer they might have been state of the art!

It's not a sack of potatoes dress, it looks nice and will be cool in the summer with it being 'floaty'. Good on you ordering a 2nd!

I got a two- pack of cotton mix dresses for £20 from a 'catalog' type website- may have been simply be or marisota, not sure, but was in two minds about them, but turns out they are so comfy, both a lovely cobalt blue, (one plain, one a leopard print) both midi length( but im short so possibly bit longer) ?But they both have 2 deep-ish side pockets,which i love! great for lounging in at home, and if i go in garden can pop my phone in the pocket! I'm glad i didn't send them back.They do have short-ish sleeves though (like on a tee shirt) but i don't like long ones in warmer weather, and at least my arms can get a bit of sun, but they turned out to be a great comfy bargain buy.?

Good for you enjoy

When you have got fed up of wearing it as a dress, it will be a lovely nightie!
As long as it's comfortable and cool on a hot day and I bet it makes you feel elegant when wearing it too
Won't be long before I'll be fishing out my maxi dresses and they are in no way fitted, but cool and comfortable. Wins every time for me!

Yes, it does look really nice in the photo, but I did factor in before ordering that the model is probably 5 foot 10 and wearing a size 8. So I was all too aware that it wouldn’t look quite the same on me, but for the sake of cool, airy comfort, I took the sod-it approach.
It actually comes with a jersey slip, but to me that would defeat the object - it’s not really see-through anyway - so I binned it.

The comment about GC calling a dress a nightgown made me smile. I remember wearing what I thought were fshionable check trousers to be brought down by GD asking why was I wearing my pyjamas - I thought the dress looked summery and cool and will check the website.

I have just spent way too long looking at all the lovely clothes on that site! Thanks for the post.

I have gone into Seasalt tunic dresses this year with jeggings. They are linen or cotton and very comfortable. They make them fbig enough or the traditionally built and I actually think I am pulling off smart casual for the first time in my life

Snap ! Just got a similar one from Poetry, it's a linen mix, washed black, and I really like it. But it was much cheaper, around 100 euros. ( My computer does'nt have the pound key ).So comfortable and forgiving to wear and can be jazzed up with some nice beads and earrings.

I like the dress,but I'm small,so everything is too long for me.The models are always about 5ft 10

I bought a lovely new dress from Kaleidoscope. I’m really pleased with it and may wear next week when I go up to London to meet a friend and have afternoon tea with her. Well I’ll wear it if the weather holds.

I love the clothes in the Poetry catalogue. I do find that dresses tend to blow up a bit with the slightest breeze though. I have a couple of long cotton dresses that I used to wear when it’s hot that went in around the hem (they literally do look like a sack of potatoes) but I can’t wear them with our latest dog because she has a habit of pawing my leg when she wants something or comes up behind me and does it to announce her presence and my legs get scratched.

It’s a new style called “the Buffet” dress and worth its weight in gold!

Looking at my wardrobe my dresses veer from the online store Kit & Kaboodle at one end to Sahara at the other! Woolovers are doing several linen dresses some with a half sleeve (!) on their website, good colours and not too bad a price.

“Thought” has nice dresses, similar price to Poetry.
I don’t have any of their dresses but I have 2 blouses. Very nice thin, cool-to-wear fabric and pretty patterns.

It looks nice, good colour too. I wear things like that over bathers at the beach or to walk around the beach areas.

I made myself a baggy cotton caftan to wear on hot days. Only at home, not in public! After a hot day I shower and put it on for the evening, cool and relaxing.

I love Poetry, think that it's better to buy something that you feel good about. Comfort is much higher on the list of priorities than it was. I bought a roomy t shirt dress from JL last year have yet to wear it, probably just for the garden. I'm nearly a foot shorter than most of the models!

I agree that the dress is much nicer than your description! But not sure I could afford it or look ok in it! I have spent a lot less on clothes since the start of the pandemic and just lately have been 'treating' myself, mainly from Cotton Traders. Am awaiting delivery of an order today! I get really excited when the parcel comes - but very much doubt I will keep all of it. Then after talking to my clothes loving daughter on Sunday she suggested I get some linen mix trousers sooo I have just ordered 2 x pairs - again from Cotton Traders! They are my 'go to' for clothes because I like the clothes (obviously) and returns are so easy. I avoid M&S now because their 'New Easy Returns' are far from it!!