BARBARA | Modest V-neck with long sleeves
BARBARA | Modest V-neck with long sleeves
It is a V-neck I can wear without a camisole. I did not think I would find one.
A V-neck flatters almost everybody, which is why almost every blouse has one, and why almost every blouse then sits in the drawer. They are cut too low. So a camisole goes underneath, which adds a layer and a line and defeats the point of the neckline entirely. Barbara is cut to a depth you can leave alone.
The V is finished with a small ruffle that runs along the edge, which fills the opening and stops it from reading as bare. The line still draws upward toward the face, which is the actual work a V-neck does. The long sleeves cover to the wrist and roll back neatly to the forearm, and the silhouette is smooth and relaxed rather than close to the body.
Why women our age keep coming back to it
- A V you can wear as it comes. The ruffle along the edge fills the neckline, so there is nothing to cover and no camisole line under a plain blouse.
- It still lengthens the neck. The V is shallow but it is a real V, so the eye is still drawn upward rather than straight across the collarbone.
- Sleeves that work both ways. Down at the wrist for a cool room, rolled to the forearm when it warms up.
- Five colors. Pink, white, green, blue and black, all in the same shape.
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How it fits
Barbara is a relaxed fit and runs true to size, in S through 3XL. If you are between two sizes, take the larger one, because a V-neck opens wider as the blouse pulls, and a size that is snug will undo the thing this blouse is for. The size chart has the flat measurements in inches.
30 days to change your mind
Send it back within 30 days for a full refund. There is no restocking fee and no questions about why.
A few recent reviews
No tank underneath. I have not been able to say that about a V-neck in ten years.
Inez R., Chandler
I rolled the sleeves for a cookout and put them down again for church the next morning.
Hilda K., Gilbert
The white is not see through, which is the other thing I always have to check.
Luella M., 64