You know those drapey linen clothes..

[BertrandRussell]

...that posh middle aged women wear? Where do they get them? And if they get them somewhere really expensive, where can I get cheaper ones? Doesn't have to be 100% linen- it's the look I want.

If the op knew why would she ask? Also what's fancy dress about it?

Judi not Julie

Google "rock bottom Italian collection"

cosstores

Vivid Linen is good. They are online. Some of my linen comes from Sainsburys, vair cheap!

Does anyone know if more expensive linen keeps it's shape better? I know vintage linen does as I have a couple of 50s jackets which look newer than my modern, cheapy stuff.

I don't mind the creasing so much but I can't stand the sagging and the droopiness. I can't get away with it any more.

Sorry for hi-jack!

That Poetry stuff is beautiful but they want £18 to deliver to Ireland. 18 bloody quid and we're right next door!!! Bugger.

Round where I live you can't get moved for these clothes on market stalls and in bargain clothes shops that sell end of lines and seconds from the major clothes outlets.

I look like a sack of shit in anything remotely wafty, I'm only a size 10!

Some people can carry off this look... and some can't. Drapey jackets and trousers make me look like Sandi Toksvig, not one of those models out of The White Company catalogue. Actually TWC models make me feel so depressed. They are all so perfect with sun kissed hair and sun kissed accessory children and everyone has long lean arms. It all makes me feel extra stumpy.

Long and lean they may be but they still look like they are wearing a sack in my opinion. I don't think it's a look that does anyone any favours

Online from Poetry

TKMaxx. I have a floaty linen dress on at the moment. £25. I look like a middle-aged, Hampstead-dwelling English or Art teacher from the 1970s.

I just need a chunky amber necklace or five to top the look off.

I'm not sure I entirely like that fact.

How has it come to this?

But it was cheap.

And it is very good in the heat.

I have loads of chunky amber.. But I got it when doing quite daring traveling in the former USSR a million years ago. So I feel OK wearing it. And secretly superior to the people who bought theirs in Hempstead boutiques!

Will hit TKMaxx at the weekend and join you in the linen cupboard of shame.......

Our local garden centre also stocks a nice range of linen...

Another vote for Gudrunsjoden

If you live near a swanky area go and take a wander round. I strolled through Horsham (leafy Sussex town) shopping centre the other day and the shop windows were full of waterfall cardigans and floaty scarves. I bet their charity shops are full of the same if you're on a budget.

The thing is most Scandinavians are tall people and their clothes absolutely swamp me. Or perhaps actually I'm receiving the correct message that drapey does not suit shorty.