Real stories · The dress I bought four times

I found my uniform at 67 — and bought it in four colours

I bought the same dress four times, on purpose, and I regret nothing — that's the whole review. I'm 67, and I've spent decades watching men solve getting dressed with five identical shirts while I stood in front of a full wardrobe with 'nothing to wear'. It turns out they were right all along. The trick isn't more clothes. It's finding THE one, and repeating it.

What I wanted — without knowing it — was a uniform.

Then I found the Evressa from a British label called York Boutique — a relaxed T-shirt dress with a clean round neck, a lovely soft ribbed texture and proper side pockets. I started with the pink. There are twelve colours. You can see where this is going.

The cut is the quiet genius. Relaxed enough to be comfortable all day, shaped enough to look intended rather than borrowed — which is why it works at the shops, at coffee, and at my own kitchen table equally well — and the pockets take my glasses and a tissue. Light, breathable, zero maintenance: wash, hang, wear.

A relaxed T-shirt dress with proper pockets, in twelve colours — which is why one trial purchase quietly became four, and why getting dressed now takes eight seconds.

It was £24.95 — less than half the usual £60, which is roughly how the first one became a second within the week, and the second became a fourth by the end of the month. Even at four, I've spent less than one 'investment piece' that never left its hanger. A fortnight to send it back, free delivery — academic, by now.

They have since done every ordinary day for three weeks, in rotation, and my daughter finally noticed: 'you're wearing it in green today' — delivered with the weary tone of a woman who knows she's about to order one herself. She has. The blue.

If your full wardrobe also contains nothing to wear, do have a look. The Evressa is rated 4.6 out of 5 by more than 240 women, it comes in twelve colours, in UK sizes 8/10 all the way to 22/24 — and at this price, well — you've seen what happens.