MAUREEN | Relaxed everyday blouse

I put it on expecting to spend the afternoon tugging at it. By dinner I had forgotten I was wearing it.

Somewhere along the line you stopped buying blouses that button at the waist, because every one of them pulled open by three in the afternoon. The safe answer became a longer top in a dark color, worn over everything else, and there are now four of them folded on the same shelf. Maureen is the one that sent that shelf back down to three.

The cut falls straight from the shoulder instead of following the waist, so it skims the middle rather than sitting on it. The fabric is light and moves with you, which is what keeps it from clinging after an hour in a chair. And there is nothing on it to manage: no ties, no peplum, no stiff collar to keep lying flat.

Why women our age keep coming back to it

• It skims where other blouses grip. The straight line through the body means nothing pulls across the stomach when you sit down, so you are not quietly adjusting it through lunch.
• Light enough for a warm room. The fabric breathes, which is what you want in a restaurant that runs hot or a car in July.
• Nothing on it to date. No trim, no hardware, no detail that belongs to one season. It will look the same in three years as it does now.
• Seven colors, and most of them are not black. Green, orange, yellow, brown, khaki, white and black, so you can move away from the dark end of the closet without feeling conspicuous about it.

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

Maureen is cut loose on purpose, so it runs true to size rather than large. It comes in S through 3XL. If you are between two sizes, take the larger one, because the whole point of the cut is that it moves, and a size that is snug across the back takes that away. The size chart has the flat measurements in inches. If the size you land on turns out to be wrong, the next section is the short version of what happens.

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 have it in khaki and in white and I am going back for the green. It does not pull anywhere.
Nadine R., Mesa

I am 68 and I was sure it would look like a tent on me. It does not. It hangs.
Roberta K., Sun City

Wore it on the flight out to see my grandson and it came out of the bag looking fine.
Marjorie T., 61