ROSEMARY | Loose striped blouse with a collar

It looks like I made an effort this morning. I did not.

There is a category of morning where a tee is too little and a real shirt is too much, and most of us solve it by putting the shirt on anyway and then being slightly too warm until four in the afternoon. The collar is the part doing the work in that shirt. The collar is also the part that makes it stiff. Rosemary keeps the first and drops the second.

The collar sits on a loose, unstructured body, so it reads as tidy at the shoulders while everything below it hangs free. The stripes run vertically, which is what keeps a roomy cut from looking like a sack. And the fabric is light enough for air to move through it, so the extra room at the sides is not cancelled out by a heavy weave.

Why women our age keep coming back to it

• The collar without the stiffness. It sits on an unstructured body, so there is no pressed or lined edge standing up the way a shirt collar does.
• Vertical stripes on a loose cut. The lines give a roomy blouse a direction, which is what stops it reading as shapeless.
• Room through the shoulders and arms. You can reach up to a high shelf without the armhole pulling, which is not true of most collared shirts at this price.
• Three quiet colors. Gray, pink and beige, all of which work with the pants already hanging in the closet.

Buy more, save more

• Buy 2 and save 10 percent
• Buy 3 and save 15 percent
• Buy 4 and save 20 percent

The discount is applied automatically at checkout.

How it fits

Rosemary is cut loose and runs true to size, in S through 3XL. If you are between two sizes, take the larger one, because the whole effect depends on the body hanging away from you while the collar sits neatly, and a closer size turns it back into an ordinary shirt. The size chart lists chest, length and sleeve in inches, measured flat.

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

I wear it to volunteer on Thursdays and nobody would guess it is this comfortable.
Roslyn T., Gilbert

The beige is warmer than beige usually is. It does not wash me out.
Dixie A., 58

Plenty of room in the arms. I have wide shoulders and this is the first one that does not bind.
Jeanine P., Tempe