Linen That Doesn't Wrinkle

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No, and that is a trick question. Linen creases because the flax fiber has almost no stretch, which is the same reason it is cool, strong and softer every year. Anything sold as wrinkle free linen has either been treated with a resin finish or blended with polyester, and either one takes away what you bought linen for. What you can choose is how it creases. Blend it with cotton and the creases go rounder and softer. Blend it with silk and the weight of the cloth pulls them out as you wear it. Buy it washed or in a heavy twill and it arrives already lived in, so a crease reads as texture. And cut it loose, because on a relaxed shape a crease looks like movement, while on a fitted one it looks like strain.

The list below puts the blends first, then the washed and twill linens, then everything else. Every piece is at least half linen and at least 95% natural fiber in the shell.