Oh great internet, fountain of knowledge...
 

...where the hell can I buy a plain white linen or linen/cotton mix shirt ffs?
Seriously I've looked all over the place and no-one seems to have such a thing despite it being the middle of summer.

Enlighten me oh great ones.

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google search "cotton shirts" "marks and spencers". easy from there.

or you could walk in, maybe get a chocolate cake too!

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Important note: cotton is not linen.

Linen is made from flax and is quite coarse, and also has larger holes between the weave. This makes it a cooler fabric than cotton so good for the summer. No-one seems to like it anymore though :(

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they do have them, there's a cotton shirt link of the left.

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http://www.marksandspencer.com/IWCat...ectionTemplate

didn't think i could link.

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You were close - as I said, linen, not cotton.

Goddamnit I'd forgotten how expensive M&S is. Student budget yo.

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sorry yo. mis-read the post.

you owe it to your gran to pay the prices.

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I should add to anyone else who might chip in, I'm talking highstreet stores here as frankly you kinda need to try shirts on.

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I can't chip in, but I can offer sympathy (or empathy, what's the difference?)

I volunteered for a waitering job at a fundraiser on the weekend, this requires a nice plain white cotton shirt. Now I didn't have one, so I went off to the shops to get one - simple I thought. Everybody sells white shirts! But did they? No they did not.

Blue shirts, green shirts (?), even shirts that I thought would look good on a clown ($120 on sale), but white shirts? **** no. I wasted 4 hours of my life in three different shopping centres looking for a plain white shirt. I am lead to believe they don't exist any more.

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Ha! Ha! Ha!

I can buy good quality white cotton blend shirts for $20 US.

Hurray for exploitive capitalism where we import all of our shirts from Thailand and the like.

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the word which I have subtely highlighted troubles me.

anyway ... meggles ... I don't find linen to be more cooling than cotton, it's far heavier and thicker. We had linnen before we had cotton and I'm pretty sure that cotton was a revolution.

Re: Oh great internet, fountain of knowledge...
 

you can walk into any supermarket in the country and get a white cotton shirt nowadays.

i havent seen any nice linen shirts around for ages though, and they are a bugger to iron


anecdotally, i find my linen trousers a lot cooler than cotton ones in hot weather

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Tescos sell White shirts for about £3. I'd imagine you get what you pay for, but for a waiting job it's probably sufficient...

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You could try Topman - £25

Or

Burtons - £20

Whats your budget? It makes it alot easier to find you a shirt.

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H+M or Next would have some, I'd have thought?
Debenhams?

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The Supermarkets sell cotton shirts now do they? Oh what a quaint country you people live in.

In the end I found one that was largely white, but with an interesting diagonal weave that makes it look rather ace. White shirts are terribly versatile and I wanted a good quality one that I could wear with a suit etc. Dressing like a hobo was not the goal.

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I'm looking at around the £20 mark. That Burton one looks worth a look plus they do student discount so that's £18 to yours truely.

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I'm pretty sure Slaters had some last time I went there for about £12.

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i got some decent shirts from M&S that weren't expensive.

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I'm going to have to go with a recommendation for Primark, the leading clothes store for Britain's lower class.

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Similarly the only plain white cotton shirts I own are from Dunnes Stores (which I imagine is somewhat equivalent to this "primark").


PS just noticed this thread is about linen shirts. Don't know if they're linen or not :(

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Damnit I was in Nottingham a few hours ago and completely forgot we had a Slaters. I found the ones in Burton and M&S. Might go with Burton as I already have a few of their (cotton) shirts that I'm quite pleased with. I'll have a look in Slater first though.

Go go intarweb fashion gurus.