Summer dresses with sleeves (and pockets) - the holy grail

[Jacobieathan]

Anyone found a nice one? Share, please, for the love of god, share!

Oh my goodness that Tiny Vikings website is amazing! Just ordered t-shirts for me and dd!

Lily and me have some lovely ones

I got one from next, it has massive unexpected pockets.

54VenusClapTrap yeah Tiny Vikings is amazing! And Anna does pretty much everything herself and is extremely friendly and up for personalizing sizes/doing specific things where possible, when asked (eg, she once made a child's dress in an adult size, and another time dungarees with a denim seat when ds3 was a bum shuffler).

@DobbyTheHouseElk would it be possible for you to link your next dress please?

Thanks to all the other posters too. I love the hush ones but like a op said they’d look like a nightie. I’m too short and dumpy.

Most Hush dresses don't have pockets.

Best bets for the combinations of covering shoulder and having pockets (and being cotton, another thing Hush is rubbish at) are COS, Boden, and Community Clothing.

@Orchidflower1 I’m useless at links.

It’s £22 and this is the code. Next.

338-649

I’m 5’5” and it comes to under my knees. It’s very flattering. I’ve got it in navy stripe.

Ooh lovely thank you Dobby.

Sorry I can’t do the links, but hope you found it. It’s lovely. T shirt material, but floaty. I really like it. Some drawstring waists come too high and make me look too fat. But this was a lower waist. Wish they had other colour ways. It’s fab.

@DobbyTheHouseElk thank you. I’ve found it. It’s lovely. I like the blue stripe and the black. I’ve added it to “ favourites” on my next account to wait until payday later in the week.

I think this is the dress that Dobby means

Thank you. I must learn how do get the links.

My dress is navy and white stripe. It’s nicer on than in the picture. Well I think so.

Wow. Popsy and Tiny Vikings are very much up my street! I can't believe the price of the Tiny Vikings dress when you think that these are essentially made to order in the material you want! I like how on the Popsy site they show real women wearing the dresses. Very helpful.

@KatharinaRosalie
Just bought a jumpsuit from eshakti!

Mountain Warehouse do a little range of summer dresses with sleeves and pockets like this one:

www.mountainwarehouse.com/orchid-patterned-womens-uv-dress-p13937.aspx/pale%20blue/

I bought this one and it is gorgeous. Light, flowy and it has great pockets!

Although my husband says I look like I'm wearing something you might give an inmate of a mental asylum - I take this as a compliment

@professionalnomad I like it, particularly the grey one but does it not crease to buggery as it’s linen?

I followed the monsoon link and bought a dress and blouse....and had a problem with the Paypal transaction saying 'payment not authorised,' so
tried again, same pop up.
So tried a credit card - 3 times in all and same thing.
Now I've found that all the payments went through ok...so 5 transactions have been authorised in total. Nightmare.

Apologies op for interrupting flow of thread.

Oh no, Laundrywoman! What a pain. I hope you can get the excess orders cancelled without too much faff.

Toast are good for pockets and decent sleeves and generally very good quality, best wait for sales though unless you’re flush!

I spotted this on Wolf & Badger. It’s a bit pricey, but I’m tempted. Lovely colour.
www.wolfandbadger.com/uk/selsey-relaxed-fit-dress-in-pink_s/