A navy button through blouse in 70% cotton and 30% nylon, hand wash only, made in Japan, with a detachable necktie at the collar, a large chest pocket, a box pleat at the back yoke and buttoned cuffs, listed at 169 GBP with all three sizes in stock. Its reference publishes a measurement table rather than a single row, and that table is the reason this listing is worth reading carefully. It gives the width across the chest, the sleeve and the total length for every size, and it is the first page in this whole project to publish a sleeve length at all. Those three columns let the described fit be checked against the numbers for the first time rather than taken on trust, and they agree. The reference is the Elen Washed Cotton Blouse in Navy. Dongguan Bafinasa Garments Co., Ltd. develops comparable shirting on OEM and ODM terms, from cloth selection and pleat development to retail or FBA ready packing. We publish this as a development reference and build your own version of it, and we do not supply the branded original or reproduce anyone else's label.
Key Features
- A measurement table covering every size, rather than one row. See the note below
- Sleeve length published as its own column, which no page in this project has done before
- 70% cotton and 30% nylon as stated, in a washed crepe with a crisp hand
- Hand wash only as stated, on what is mostly cotton. See the note below
- Detachable necktie at a classic collar as stated, so the collar has two states
- Large chest pocket and box pleat at the back yoke as stated
- Button front with buttoned cuffs as stated
- Made in Japan as stated, and the finishing standard that tends to come with it
Customisable Options
- Cloth: washed cotton crepe to the reference, offered at several weights since that decides how the pleat falls
- Fit: boxy and loose to the reference, or graded in from there
- Necktie: detachable to the reference, or fixed, with the cost difference worth quoting both ways
- Pocket: large chest patch to the reference, with position and size adjustable
- Sleeve and body lengths, pleat depth, cuff depth, size set, colour development, private label and care labelling
Specifications
| Style | Boxy cotton blouse with detachable necktie |
| Reference | Nicholson and Nicholson, Elen Washed Cotton Blouse, style ELEN-W 4.NVY, size 36-40, colour Navy |
| Composition | 70% cotton, 30% nylon as stated, totalling one hundred |
| Cloth | Washed cotton crepe, described as crisp and airy with a crepe like texture |
| Fit | Boxy and loose, described as oversized by the reference |
| Collar | Classic collar with detachable necktie as stated |
| Large chest pocket as stated | |
| Back | Box pleat at the back yoke as stated |
| Front and Cuffs | Button through front with buttoned cuffs as stated |
| Care | Hand wash only as stated. See the note below |
| Sizes Offered | 36, 38 and 40, equal to S, M and L, with all three in stock |
| Measurements Published | Pit to pit, sleeve and total length for all three sizes. See the note below |
| Published Width | Pit to pit 56, 58 and 60 cm, which is 22.0, 22.8 and 23.6 in flat. See the note below |
| Published Sleeve | 55, 56 and 57 cm, grading one centimetre per size |
| Published Length | 70, 72 and 74 cm, grading two centimetres per size |
| Model | Not stated, and no body measurements are given for the wearer |
| Photographs | One only, which is thin for a garment with this much construction detail |
| Production | Made in Japan as stated |
| Reference Retail | 169 GBP as listed, quoted to show the price band this sits in, not as our price |
| Category | Filed by the reference under blouses and shirts |
| Occasion | Work, everyday, smart casual, travel |
| MOQ | 100 pcs per style per colourway, mixed sizes and colourways accepted |
| Sampling | 7-10 days after tech pack or reference sample confirmation |
| Bulk Lead Time | 20-30 days after sample approval and deposit |
| Service | OEM / ODM / private label, cotton crepe sourcing, pleat and yoke development, retail or FBA ready packing |
Size Chart as Published by the Reference
| Size | Bust (pit to pit, flat) | Sleeve | Total Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 36 / S | 56 cm | 55 cm | 70 cm |
| 38 / M | 58 cm | 56 cm | 72 cm |
| 40 / L | 60 cm | 57 cm | 74 cm |
Every figure above is a flat half measure taken with the garment laid down, which is standard in Japanese pattern sheets. Doubling the width gives the distance around: 112, 116 and 120 cm, or 44.1, 45.7 and 47.2 in. That is roughly ten inches more than a size 36 body, which is what a boxy blouse described as oversized should measure, and it is the first time in this project that a described fit and a published table could be checked against each other. Total length is a full length rather than a half measure.
Our Proposed Body Chart
| Size | Body Bust | Sleeve | Body Waist | Body Hips | Length | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36 | 33 in / 84 cm | 55 cm | 26 in / 66 cm | 36 in / 91 cm | 70 cm / 27.6 in | Our proposal |
| 38 | 35 in / 89 cm | 56 cm | 28 in / 71 cm | 38 in / 97 cm | 72 cm / 28.3 in | Our proposal |
| 40 | 37 in / 94 cm | 57 cm | 30 in / 76 cm | 40 in / 102 cm | 74 cm / 29.1 in | Our proposal |
Occasions and Styling
Suits work, everyday wear, smart casual and travel. A detachable necktie means one garment covers both a formal collar and a plain one, though it also means a small loose piece that can be separated from the blouse, so it is worth deciding how it will be stored and how it will be described commercially.
Production and Quality Control
The reference publishes a table rather than a single row, gives a sleeve length as its own column for the first time in this project, and states all three sizes with all three in stock. Its numbers and its prose agree with each other. Three things are worth working through: what the table finally allows, what a detached necktie implies, and why cotton is being told to stay out of a washing machine.
A table instead of a row, and what that finally allows, and that is the first thing. Everything examined before this came from listings that published one size out of four or five, usually a middle one, sometimes no measurements at all, and never a sleeve. Working through those, this series repeatedly had to reason about fit from description words alone and say plainly that a figure could not be verified. This page removes that limit, and it is worth being precise about how much it removes. With pit to pit, sleeve and length for every size, three separate things become checkable. The described fit can be compared with a number, which the next paragraph does. The grade can be read directly, which the pair of garments beside this one makes useful. And the length can be judged against a height, because a total length in centimetres is a real dimension rather than an impression. The sleeve column deserves its own sentence, since nothing in the earlier work had one. Sleeve 55, 56 and 57 cm grades one centimetre per size, which is a quarter of what the chest grades, and that is worth knowing because sleeve is the measurement most often missing and the one most often complained about afterwards. It is also worth noting what the page still does not carry, so this does not read as uncritical. There is no model height and no body measurements for the wearer, so the fit still cannot be tied to a person, and there is a single photograph, which is thin for a piece with a detachable necktie, a chest pocket, a yoke pleat and two cuff arrangements to show. Better data does not automatically mean better everything, and the honest reading is that the disclosure is far ahead of where this series has been while the visual evidence is behind.
A necktie that comes off, and what that changes, and that is the second thing. The collar is a classic one with a tie that can be removed, which means one garment has two quite different states and the change is made at the collar rather than anywhere else. That is a good commercial arrangement, because it widens what the piece is for without changing the body. It also matters in two less obvious ways. First, a detachable piece is a separate object that can be mislaid, and because it is sold as part of the garment, losing it is not the same as losing an accessory. It should be counted in packing and it should be photographed separately. Second, a detachable piece makes the composition statement ambiguous, and this series has been tracking that particular ambiguity for a long time. The page says the garment is made from seventy percent cotton and thirty percent nylon, and that sentence covers the blouse. Whether the necktie is cut from the same cloth is not stated, and it need not be, because a tie has different structural requirements. This is the same class of gap as the ones found recently on other listings, where two components were listed under two headings with one fibre and no way to tell whether they were two cloths or one listed twice. Worth adding that this is mild here, since the necktie is a small piece on a garment that is otherwise fully accounted for, and the fix costs a few words rather than a rework. Naming the tie cloth in the same line as the body would close it entirely.
Hand wash only, on cotton, and why the blend is doing the work, and that is the third thing. Seventy percent cotton and thirty percent nylon, described as a crisp washed crepe with a crepe like hand, and the instruction is hand wash only. This series has made the point across hundreds of examinations that fibre rarely determines treatment, and it has assembled a set of cotton garments doing five different things. Here the reason is visible in the composition rather than hidden. Cotton on its own tolerates water better than almost anything, since it has no overlapping scales to interlock and it absorbs and recovers. Nylon behaves differently: it is strong and abrasion resistant, which is why it is here, but it is heat sensitive and it creases and shines if it is pushed. At thirty percent, mixed through a cotton matrix, it sets the ceiling on temperature and on mechanical action, and this series has repeatedly found that an instruction follows the most vulnerable element present rather than whatever is dominant. The crepe finish adds a second reason, since crepe texture, like any surface finish, is partly what water and agitation remove. So hand wash only follows from the blend and the finish together, and there is a practical consequence worth stating for anyone trying to make this cheaper: the instruction is tied to a thirty percent nylon content chosen for strength and wrinkle resistance, so a version cut at a lower nylon proportion would behave differently and might be described more simply. That is a decision about positioning rather than about cloth. One further thing on the table, since this series has been assembling these for a long while. Total length 70, 72 and 74 cm means the blouse finishes between 27.6 and 29.1 in from the highest point of the shoulder, so it covers the seat without being long. Against no stated wearer height, that is a dimension a customer can act on where a photograph only shows how it looked on one person. Every bulk shipment gets a measurement report against your approved chart.
Optional upgrades include naming the necktie cloth in the same statement as the body cloth, since a detachable piece need not be cut from the same material and the page does not say, quoting the blouse both with and without the detachable tie so the cost of it is visible, publishing a model height and body measurements alongside the table, since a fit can only be tied to a person with those present, adding photographs showing the collar in both states and the yoke pleat, since one image cannot cover four construction details, grading sleeve length by the same amount across a wider size range rather than adding a centimetre per size, stating the cloth weight as a number rather than only calling it crisp and airy, since weight decides how the pleat holds, using a lower nylon proportion if a simpler care instruction is commercially worth more than the strength it adds, keeping the box pleat rather than substituting gathers, since a pleat is what produces the loose fit without enlarging the measurement, length options, size set, colour development, private label, hangtag and care labelling.
Pre-production sample approval, in-line inspection during cutting and sewing, and a final AQL inspection before packing, with measurement reports and photos shared before shipment.
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