Do 100% cotton school summer dresses actually exist?

[Tinker]

Or am I wasting my time trying to look and should I just settle for the sweaty ones?

they do exist - severl threads on this topic in past years, will have a rummage.

As I recall Asda ones are often 100% cotton but not everywhere has them and you can't gte them online, and of the sweaty ones M&S are the least offensive.

I'll be bakc in a minute with links...

Ah, not available online. Of course That's where I'm going wrong. Bum, will have to shop.

long thread with lots of suggestions here - maybe try

good ebay shop with blue ones here , another seller with red ones here .

and if all else fails there's these whihc cost a fortune but do the job (and they are 100% cotton because I rang and asked)

Oh, thank you MrsB

(NB if you have a specialist uniform shop it's worth going in there and seeing what they have - all you need is once poncey prep school who wear the right colour in cotton and you can sneakily buy theirs)

Would you have to iron 100% cotton? How much does a pre-pubescent child sweat anyway?

ironing depends on how anal you are/ whether you tumble them etc etc

and I was thinking more re eczema etc than sweating

Do M&S not do 100% cotton ones -I'm sure DD's are.

(I would go and look but that involves getting up off the sofa....)

nope, the A-line ones are polyester and viscose and the trad ones are polyester and cotton.

I take it back -you are right MrsB -polyester and cotton (65%/35%). I was convinced that they were cotton -shows how much notice I take when washing and ironing!

I recently bought some '100 pc cotton' school gingham dresses off a site called thingimmijigs. They arrived but my dear, the static! Someone somewhere had got labelling wrong.
Got refund without trouble. Have just splurged on the blue ones MrsB mentioned. Lovely quality, really lush cotton.

aha, Google turned up Thingamajigs as it had cached their site when it said they were cotton - doesn't any more!

The chap selling the blue ebay ones won some Dragon's Den-style Guardian Ebay business challenge, don't you know - here

Oh, v interesting Mrs B, bcs last week the thingimijigs site was still flogging them as 100 pc cotton.
I queried this with them then bored for England on a thread about it and they assured me it was cotton. I guess they've reconsidered.

out and proud - 100% polyester

it was this one: down to the polo-style collar and scrunchie (which should have been a warning sign)
and the label inside read '100 pc cotton'
www.thingimijigs.co.uk/product_info.php/cPath/10_48/products_id/993

computer won't let me do links today

You can get cotton summer dresses in John Lewis - they do red, pink, blue and yellow with scrunchies and socks to match

last time I looked JL's were all polycotton, same as M&S....

yes, the national Schoolwear stores have gingham dresses in 100% cottton, they sell out as quickly as they get them in