Olive Clothing

[MrsMaiselsRedCoat]

Just wondering if anyone has any feedback? It all looks lovely, but it's so hard to tell online, particularly fabrics and sizing.

Anyone?

Sorry, I haven't ever bought anything from there but it all does look so lovely.
I always think the girl that models for them is so naturally pretty too.

I don’t know, but I’d like to. Hopefully, someone will be along to tell us soon.

I found a lot of things that Olive sell really appealing. Then I found that very often their clothing is "one size" (8-12) and the sheer stupidity of that put me off.

Generally very very good quality, but yes, sizing is irritatingly small. Website used to be hopeless as hardly anything was shown on an actual person but I think they’ve got better with this recently. Basically if you’re a size 8-12 you’re fine but any larger and you’ve got no hope. But as I said, quality tends to be great.

That's great to know about the quality, thanks!

I'm probably ok with the sizing, but I do think it's a ridiculous business model. A bit like Brandy Melville which dd was obsessed with for a while, where everything is size 6-8. Apart from the lack of inclusion, surely they'd make more money if they had more sizes?!

My experience is that the knitwear is great quality (I have a couple of styles and both have worn really well), whereas the dresses I tried were a cheap looking polyester nightmare and went straight back.

I was a bit horrified by the sizing initially too, but it’s an interesting idea: less wastage.

I've almost bought things once or twice - especially knitwear which looks lovely, and then noticed that it had quite a high percentage of polyamide/acryllic/whatever, so didn't bother. They do often look really nice on the website though

Knitwear is amazing. My favourite ever jumper is from there.

I know the sizes are a bit restrictive and it's not great that you basically need to be size 8-14 to wear any of it, but I respect that they're making a limited number of pieces and not having thousands of items sitting unsold in a warehouse that then have to be dumped. It's pretty good from a sustainability point of view.

I like Olive and have always found their stuff good quality. I got a lovely coat in the sale a few months ago. It’s a bit hit or miss for me though as I’m a size 12 and some things only go up to a 10.