THERESA | Moss green open shirt

I am out in the garden by seven and at the market by nine. This is what I have on for both.

Mornings outdoors have their own dress problem. The practical answer is something technical, and technical clothing has a look to it that follows you into the rest of the day, so you either change before the market or you spend the morning dressed for exercise you are not doing. What is wanted is something that survives a garden and still looks like clothes.

Theresa is a soft moss green that reads like spring without announcing it, a color taken from the garden rather than from a trend, so it belongs outdoors without looking like sportswear. It is cut generously in a smooth weave with a faint natural grain and a light, dry hand, relaxed through the shoulder at hip length, with a point collar, tonal buttons and two hip pockets.

Why women our age keep coming back to it

• It looks like clothes, not kit. A natural weave in a garden color goes from the yard to a market or a long lunch outdoors without a change in between.
• A dry hand, so it does not stick. The light smooth weave stays off the skin when a morning outside turns warm.
• Generous through the shoulder. Cut with enough room to reach, kneel and lift without the armhole catching.
• Two hip pockets. For the clippers, the phone or the market list, which is not a small thing when your hands are full.

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How it fits

Theresa runs on the small side, so size up rather than ordering straight, and take the larger size if you want real freedom through the shoulder. It comes in 8 through 22, and these are UK sizes, not US ones, so go by the measurements rather than the number you usually buy. The chart gives bust, waist and hips as body measurements in inches, so measure over a light top with the tape level.

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

It has survived two seasons of tomatoes and still looks decent.
Lenore T., Gilbert

A muted green, nothing bright about it. That is exactly why I ordered it.
Vada S., 68

Plenty of room to kneel and reach. Most shirts pull at the shoulder when I do.
Clemmie P., Mesa