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....

I really like the fatface one - it would be a perfect school run dress

Even I iron linen.

tracey - god. Especially that last one, looks like the queen about to inspect a factory.

Can't you see fatty stomachs in skirts and vest tops?

I did say my requirements were extremely particular...

You could dress it down with a denim jacket.

You're never going to magically make a tummy vanish but you can distract - necklaces etc. Or show your cleavage if you're of the Gok school of fashion.

Did you look at the hobbs one - thought that was quite skimming.

Gosh - I do sound bossy - sorry.

shirt dress?

I want to take you shopping!
Where do you live?
I don't iron either
or sew

what is wrong with your stomach?
Do you do sit ups? or pilates?

Tops like these good for hiding tummy.

No, you're not at all bossy, I am v grateful for all and help, really. On the twice yearly occasions I am forced to visit shops other than Sainsburys, I have to take forceful friends who order me about and make me buy things while I protest and sulk.

Yes, the hobbs was nice. I need v causal really (foreign parts)

you could buy a sack and put some string over your shoulders

I like the shirt dress, but I always feel like a fat dumpy old sack with a belt.

Tracey - look how thin that model is! Are you sure they would hide flab?

Stomach is flabby and too much of it. I do do sit ups sometimes, but I forget a lot of the time.

It probably will end up being the sack option - or the shirts again...

Jersey but tummy skimming

Can you wear black?

They are both quite nice, tracey. Are you going to think me beyond the pale if I say they seem a little dressy?

I've got to take my dog out now to be blasted about in the wind and rain. Thank you all for your help and I completely understand if you write me off as a hopeless case.

Take a look at APC in the English section, women.

Look 05
Look 06
Look 11
Look 21
Look 24

all fit your summer dress requirements. But you could take a look at some of the other things too.

Hully. To begin with you need a pair of these

They'll give you confidence and make anything you wear fall really nicely. They'll open up a whole new world of clothes for you.

Thanks Anna, I'll have a look.

whiffle - please tell me people don't really wear those...plus I need frocks for a hot summer, I think those weird things might get a little sweaty?

I haven't followed all the link so sorry if duplicates but these white stuff ones seem to fit the bill?

this
or this

Everyone wears them daahling. Since DC2 in January, I've been wearing them and they are a godsend.
Tracey, that first jersey dress from white company is lovely, would give a nice shape.

this long one

this?

more to come

Are you looking for holiday, ie abroad, clothes?

how about this

Coco - yes, but not holiday as in all bright colours and beads. Just plain old dresses to sit around beach tavernas in on hot nights where no one is dressed up. Well, all right, some of them are a bit, but not me.

Should have said v casual.