Dressing for a long lunch

One dress, three ways: how we wear a linen wrap from a picnic in the park to dinner, with a few easy changes.

Start with the cloth

Good clothes begin long before the cutting table. The yarn, the weave and the dye decide how a piece feels on the first day and how it looks after a hundred washes.

Slow is a choice

A hand loom makes a few metres a day. That cloth breathes, drapes and softens in a way a factory roll does not, and every length carries small marks of the person who made it.

• Wash cold, inside out, with similar colours.
• Dry in the shade, never in a tumble dryer.
• Iron linen while it is still a little damp.

Wear it often

Handwoven cotton and linen get better with wear. The more you put a piece on, the softer it becomes.

Buy less, choose well, and make it last.

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