Help needed with extremely particular summer dress requirements.

[Hullygully]

Can anyone suggest where I might find summer dresses that are:

1. Extremely plain, verging on unnoticeable - no patterns, flounces, detailing, not too short, not too fitted (old).

1. Thin shoulder-strapped (hot weather)

1. Blue or thereabouts.

I am rubbish at shopping and clothes and desperate for help. Can't face another summer sweltering in shirts....

can I tell you
I am mid 40s
I am size 12/14
I would have grey hair if I didn't dye it
I am 5 foot 5
I think you are doing yourself down
you need a MAKEOVER!

I even have a red cardigan that I wear to parties. My mother rolls her eyes and says "oh look, here comes the red cardie." But I think it's fine, I don't mind wearing the same things all the time.

you no longer have to live in twinsets if over 40

Legs are all right, bit footballer calves, but none of me is huge.

so why are you trying to hide yourself away?

No, CD, just jeans, shirts and Sainsburys fleeces when it's a bit parky.

It's Boden but I am an old gimmer

I'm not, honest. I just don't like to be noticed physically. My sparkling wit does the work instead.

I've just looked at the Dorothy Perkins website, they have some lovely dresses, but none that meets your requirements [helpful]

Sainsburys fleeces - no - this has to stop.

We could do a total S&B make over.

Doesn't jersey cling?

As long as everything is terribly plain.

Have you thought about trying a personal shopper? They might help find things for you that you wouldn't have known suited.

A personal shopper?

I should have added that I don't like clothes you have to look after. I don't have an iron and I don't sew. They must manage on their own.

It's good, you sit there with a cup of tea and they just wheel out clothes.

So no linen then?

I'm thinking about this style in a different shade.

I tend to want to fade into the background too. But as I'm freakishly tall that's hard to acheive

fatface

you need skirts with vest tops then.

Coco - I don't mind linen, it's all right if you take it out of the machine at once and hang it up.

OK - we're leaving your comfort zone

With a little cardigan on top.

Nice for not so hot days

Patterned but subtle

Am I scaring you?

I like that ghost one.

That fatface one seems to have a lot of unnecessary extra material all tied up.

Traceybath faints in Hully style at thought of unironed linen.