Plain good quality basics. Where are they???

[stringbean]

Went to my local town this morning, looking for some plain short-sleeved t-shirts. I just want some in neutral colours - white, navy, grey, and maybe one with a navy/white stripe. I came away with precisely nothing.

I don't think I'm demanding too much. I'd like good quality cotton, not that see-through thin crap. I don't want artificial fibres/viscose. I'd like a slightly scooped neck, long enough in the body that they go further than the top of my jeans (a perennial problem - I'm 5'8 and quite long torso) and don't shrink after the first wash.

So where are they? Which shops sell these? Gap used to be my port of call for these, but they've got increasingly thin and poor quality in the past couple of years and the white rapidly yellows.

Any ideas anyone? Many thanks.

M&S seem to do a pure cotton, scooped neck t-shirt for £8

also found this one at House of Fraser (in the White Stuff section, sorry, normally do not like their clothes AT ALL but this is 100% cotton)

The necks on the M & S ones are really low (well they are on me anyway)

M&S ones generally v short and wide. Their Limited Collection ones are good but they hardly ever do them anymore, sadly.

Me too; I can hardly ever wear a scoop neck without showing half my tits or wearing a vest underneath, which defeats the object of a plain tshirt imo.

Surely a dry clean only t-shirt is about as much use as a chocolate teapot?

Those 'designer' t-shirts look awful. No shape to them and if I saw one, I would think it was something rather cheap and nasty that had stretched in the wash.

Of course puddles is having a laugh. Both the T's linked boast about being thin and neither are cotton, so obviously not posted to help the OP...

when people post about £6 tshirts which I wouldn't buy in a million years
You were doing okay until you showed your snobby knickers. Some of us don't have the choices you have. £70.00 is just under a weeks money for me. I work an 18 hour day, seven days a week. I'm also highly qualified. However, due to various circumstances I cannot afford even a £6.00 t-shirt. I tend not to judge others at either end of the spectrum, until their snobby knickers are sticking out below their skirts.

and just realised it's a fucking zombie thread.