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Blouses, tanks, sweaters and knit layers, mostly in the same chiffon and eyelet cotton the summer dresses use. This is the cheapest shelf on the site and the one that does the most work between occasions.

The cheap shelf

Where the same chiffon costs a fraction

Blouses, tanks, tunics and knit layers, mostly cut from the fabrics the summer dresses use. This is the lowest-priced section on the site by a wide margin and the one that fills the gaps between occasions: work, travel, the days with no invitation attached.

Fabric and care, by material
Worth knowing

Floral chiffon is the house pattern

A lot of this shelf is the same V-neck ruffle-sleeve blouse in different prints, which is good news: the fit is a known quantity and the prints are the only variable. Pick on ground colour rather than on the flowers.

How Simplee sizing runs

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Cheapest way inPuff sleeve floral chiffon blousePuff sleeve floral chiffon blouse$5.98 gets you in$5.98Most public ratingsShirred cuff floral work blouseShirred cuff floral work blouse157 public ratings$6.99Top of the sectionPink lettered oversized Christmas pulloverPink lettered oversized Christmas pulloverRose Red, top of the price band$39.99

What is in this section

Shirred cuff floral work blouse

The useful fact about this blouse is the lining. Its body is lined, so there is no guessing about whether a silky print will show what sits underneath, which is where most light florals fail at a desk. Sleeves gather into shirred cuffs with a small ruffle at the wrist, and the V-neck carries a pleat at its base that stops the opening from splaying. The print is a multicoloured floral on green. It has collected enough feedback by now that the sizing is well established. The lining is the reason this one reports for work while the sheer florals stay home. 1 variant, from $6.99, 157 ratings.

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Burnout floral ruffle blouse

Burnout gives this blouse its pattern: the floral is etched into the cloth so parts sit sheer and parts stay solid, with no print involved at all. Ruffles run along the neckline and the short sleeve edges, and the front has working buttons. There is no lining, which keeps it light for summer and lets the burnout areas do what burnout areas do. Four colourways: army green, rust pink, lake green and wine red. Burnout floral is pattern with a hole in it, which is a better idea in August than a print. 4 variants, from $19.99, 141 ratings.

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Army green 3D florette button down

The texture is the selling point: small raised florettes worked across the surface so the fabric has relief instead of print. Simplee describes the hand as cotton-like while listing the content as polyester, woven, with no stretch and no lining. The cut is loose and oversized, V-necked, with decorative buttons down the front, puff sleeves and elasticated cuffs. Three colourways run army green, black and white. Texture woven in rather than printed on is the difference between a floral blouse and a floral-print blouse. 3 variants, from $13.99, 134 ratings.

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Black swiss dot peplum top

Swiss dot in black: a woven polyester with raised dots across the surface, unlined and without stretch. The shape belongs to the babydoll family again, an empire waist under the bust feeding into a peplum that flares over the hip. Sleeves are long with volume at the shoulder, the neckline is a V. That no-stretch weave is the thing to register, because it changes how the size chart behaves. Unlined and unstretchy: this is a blouse where the size chart is not a suggestion. 1 variant, from $14.99, 117 ratings.

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Eyelet puff sleeve boho blouse

Eyelet is the whole point of this one: lightweight embroidered cotton punched through with small openings, so the cloth carries pattern and air at the same time. The collar is ruffled and set with decorative buttons, the neckline is a V, and the short sleeves puff at the shoulder. Three colourways, rose pink, white and black, which changes the character considerably; the white reads country, the black reads evening. Eyelet gets the pattern into the fabric instead of printing it on top. 3 variants, from $32.99, 90 ratings.

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Lace peplum babydoll top

Lace across the whole body, with the hollow-out pattern left unlined, so a nude camisole underneath is part of the plan rather than an afterthought. The cut is babydoll: it falls from a round neckline, skims past the waist and ends in a peplum ruffle that flares at the hip. Short puff sleeves add a little shoulder. There is no stretch in the fabric, which is why the shape holds its outline instead of settling against the body. Lace with nothing behind it, so the camisole underneath counts as styling rather than a fix. 1 variant, from $29.99, 86 ratings.

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Tiered floral chiffon tank blouse

Sleeveless, V-neck, a button placket down the front, and ruffle tiers that give it a babydoll line. Chiffon keeps the weight down for August, and all three colourways are prints, a white floral, a green floral, and a red and yellow mix. Simplee makes a point of the arm holes not gaping, which is the usual weak point on a light sleeveless top. The sleeveless blouse that solved the one problem sleeveless blouses usually have. 3 variants, from $9.99, 84 ratings.

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Peplum babydoll floral top

A peplum blouse built on babydoll lines, which is why it reads dressier than its shape suggests. V-neck with a tie at the front, short sleeves, ruffle trim, and a peplum that flares from the waist into an irregular ruffled hem. Orange floral is the only colourway. Reception has been more mixed than most of the range, which with a cut like this usually points at fit rather than fabric. A peplum is a shape with opinions; this one wears best over something narrow at the leg. 1 variant, from $5.99, 79 ratings.

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Ruffle V-neck floral chiffon blouse

The dark ground on this one does a lot of work: the floral print reads as pattern rather than as a loud summer motif, which keeps the blouse usable at a desk. It is 100% polyester chiffon, light enough to move in heat, with a ruffle running along the V-neck and short sleeves that leave the forearm bare. Still new to the catalogue, with only a modest run of feedback behind it. Dark ground, light fabric: a floral blouse that does not announce the season it belongs to. 1 variant, from $5.99, 79 ratings.

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Emerald velvet pearl button blouse

Velvet made up as a button-down: emerald green, 92 percent polyester with 8 percent spandex, so it holds a slightly fitted line and still gives when the arms move. Bell sleeves widen at the wrist, and the buttons are pearl rather than plain plastic, which is the detail doing most of the work. Simplee calls the finish pilling resistant and the stitching reinforced. Sizing runs S to XL on the usual US scale. Pearl buttons are what keep a green velvet shirt from reading as a bathrobe. 1 variant, from $19.99, 70 ratings.

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Puff sleeve floral chiffon blouse

Puff sleeves and a V-neck give this one a more constructed outline than a plain chiffon top. The buttons down the front are decorative and do not open, so the shape stays loose and the placket reads as trim. The print mixes blue and pink across a painterly floral. Fabric is polyester, washable, and holds up against creasing, which matters on a blouse expected to go to an office and then out to dinner. Decorative buttons, no working placket: the front stays smooth and nothing pulls apart at the bust. 1 variant, from $5.98, 55 ratings.

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Navy floral petal sleeve chiffon blouse

Chiffon carries a navy floral print here, with a soft lining built in so the blouse stays opaque without a camisole underneath. The sleeve is the signal detail: two layers of petal-shaped ruffle, short, falling over the upper arm. A V-neck opens the front and the body is cut loose. Simplee pitches it across work and weekend, and the lining is what makes the office half of that claim hold together. The lining is the whole argument: chiffon that goes to a meeting without a second layer underneath. 1 variant, from $5.99, 53 ratings.

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Brown orange floral mesh shirt

Mesh printed with a brown and orange floral, built as a button-down with buttons that work rather than sit there for show. The body carries a full inner lining while the sleeves are left sheer, the standard arrangement for a mesh top that still has to be worn to work. A ruffled crew neck finishes the top and the chest is smocked. Content is 95 percent polyester with 5 percent elastane, so there is some give in it. Sheer where it is decorative, lined where it matters; the arms carry the pattern. 1 variant, from $22.99, 35 ratings.

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Apricot satin keyhole tank blouse

Sleeveless satin in apricot, with a stand mock neck and a keyhole cut at the front. The back repeats the idea as a vertical slit closed by two decorative buttons. Pleats across the chest give the fabric somewhere to go, and the body hangs straight rather than following the waist. Simplee files it under business wear, and the combination of a high neck with bare shoulders is about right for an office in summer. High at the throat, bare at the shoulder: an office compromise that works in July. 1 variant, from $9.98, 24 ratings.

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Tie neck polka dot blouse

Polka dots on a satin-like cloth with the hand of chiffon, cut as a hip-length blouse with a straight, relaxed body. The sash at the neck ties into a bow and comes off entirely, which makes this two blouses: one with a tied neck for the office, one with a plain V-neck for everything after it. Bishop sleeves gather into ruffled cuffs at the wrist. Untie the sash and the blouse changes jobs: bow for the office, plain V for the evening. 2 variants, from $17.99, 23 ratings.

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Navy lace mock neck sheer blouse

Stretch lace in navy, cut as a long-sleeve blouse with a mock neck. Simplee sells it as an undershirt, and that is the honest description: the lace is thin enough to read as texture over a camisole or bralette, and thin enough that it wants one underneath. Sleeves run to the wrist, the collar sits high, and the floral lace pattern carries through the body. A sheer top with a prim collar: the lace does the talking and the neckline keeps it civil. 1 variant, from $22.99, 21 ratings.

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Emerald satin keyhole blouse

Solid emerald satin with a subtle sheen, cut long-sleeved and relaxed through the body. The neckline is a keyhole held by a small metal bar, the only hardware on the blouse and the one detail keeping it from being plain. Cuffs button at the wrist. Simplee lists it for offices and dinners, and a solid colour with a quiet metal accent is the version of a satin blouse that manages both. The metal bar at the throat is the necklace, which is rather the point of a plain satin blouse. 1 variant, from $13.49, 21 ratings.

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Orange red velvet babydoll blouse

Orange red is an unusual thing to ask of velvet, and this blouse asks it. Long sleeves, an empire waist sitting high under the bust, and a peplum hem released below that. The listing calls the silhouette babydoll, which is accurate enough: narrow across the chest, loose everywhere after. A V-neck keeps the front open. It is cold-weather clothing by fabric, and the shade puts it nearer a holiday table than a desk. An empire seam and a peplum hem: the cut does the work so the velvet can just be velvet. 1 variant, from $24.99, 19 ratings.

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Burgundy satin mock neck shell

Of the satin tops gathered here this is the plainest, and that is its purpose: sleeveless, burgundy, with the neckline taken high into a mock collar and gathered detailing set below it. The hem is cut on a curve instead of straight across, which gives it a reason to be worn out over trousers as well as tucked in. Something to put under a blazer in an office and keep wearing once the blazer comes off. The quiet one in a group of satin blouses, which is usually why it gets worn the most. 1 variant, from $11.99, 15 ratings.

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Wine red velvet peplum blouse

The colour does half the work here: wine red velvet, long sleeved, gathered at the waist and flared into a peplum hem. The care note calls it a velvet chiffon spliced blouse, so there is lighter cloth worked in alongside the pile. Simplee positions it for cocktail parties and holiday dinners, and the shade backs that up; it is also the sort of top that goes to an office with trousers and reads as deliberate rather than festive. Velvet reads as occasion wear even when the occasion is a Tuesday with trousers. 1 variant, from $22.99, 14 ratings.

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Dark green lace bell sleeve top

Green lace mesh with the sleeves left sheer and the body lined, cut slim and drawn in at the waist. The neckline runs deep in a V and the hem is asymmetric rather than level. Sleeves flare out at the forearm. This one arrived recently and has almost no feedback behind it, so most of what can be said comes straight from the listing: stretchy fabric, opaque lining, standard sizing. A deep V and a gathered waist: this one is dressed for the evening before it leaves the hanger. 1 variant, from $22.99, 1 ratings.

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White reindeer Christmas pullover

The listing for this one is short to the point of silence: a casual pullover sweater with long sleeves, sold in a single colourway described as white reindeer. No fibre content is given and no sizing notes come with it. What it is, plainly, is the novelty Christmas jumper of the catalogue, worn for one evening in December and then several more after that, because it is a pullover and pullovers get worn. A reindeer jumper whose own listing describes it in four words: casual cute pullover sweater. 1 variant, from $32.99.

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Blue glitter mesh peplum top

Shimmer is the premise: a lightweight stretch glitter mesh that catches light without going full sequin wall. The body is fully lined, the three-quarter sleeves are left sheer and flare at the cuff, and a gathered waist feeds into a peplum hem. The neckline is a V. No feedback has collected against it yet, so the listing is the only source here, but the construction follows the pattern Simplee uses across its party tops. Shimmer woven into the mesh rather than stitched on top, which is why it moves like cloth. 1 variant, from $29.99.

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Decide in a minute

Shop this section if

  • You want to test the brand before committing to a dress.
  • The office needs a sleeve and the weather does not.
  • You already own the skirt and need the top to match it.

Look one section over if

  • You want the sweatshirt version: that is the loungewear shelf.
  • You need a full outfit in one garment: start with the dresses.

Sweatshirts and loungewear →