{"product_id":"the-hadasa-dress","title":"The Hadasa Dress","description":"\u003cp\u003eSun-bleached azure, and a garden painted along the hem — poppies, tulips,\u003cbr\u003ecurling leaves in cream and rust, climbing up from a border drawn like the edge\u003cbr\u003eof a hand-glazed tile.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo honest things about a dress like this, because they're the two you're\u003cbr\u003ealready wondering about.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt creases. Every natural fibre does, and that's rather the point of them — but\u003cbr\u003ethis is the version that creases least. Hemp holds a crease far more grudgingly\u003cbr\u003ethan flax, and blending the two gives you linen's breathability with hemp's\u003cbr\u003estrength and shape-hold. Wash it cold and hang it to dry — never hot water, never\u003cbr\u003ea hot dryer, which is what shrinks linen — then steam it while it's still damp.\u003cbr\u003eWhat's left at the end of a long day is a soft fold, which on good linen has\u003cbr\u003enever read as sloppy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd it doesn't give you a waist. It isn't trying to. It falls clean from just\u003cbr\u003eunder the bust and keeps falling, and the reason women buy this shape again in a\u003cbr\u003esecond colour is exactly that — polish without compression. After lunch, after a\u003cbr\u003eflight, after a long afternoon in the heat, it still looks deliberate. If you'd\u003cbr\u003erather have a waist, run a slim belt in a tone that coordinates rather than\u003cbr\u003eclashes around your natural one, and you'll have one in a second.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe straps are wide and tie in bows at the shoulder, so you set the length. The\u003cbr\u003eback is smocked, so it gives across your ribs and settles onto you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFlat tan sandals, gold at the ear, old stone and a long lunch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLinen-hemp blend · cream tie-bow shoulder straps · wide square neckline · contrast cream bodice panel with placed botanical motifs · smocked back · seam just below the bust releasing into a full A-line maxi skirt with no waist seam · engineered placement print with painted blooms rising from a cream border at the hem · easy and unfitted through the body — it creates space rather than defining a waist; add a slim tonal belt at the natural waist if you want definition · saturated azure ground reads fully opaque; nude underneath disappears beneath the cream panels · take your usual size; the smocked back gives across the ribs · model is 5'7\" and wears a size M · in Sunbleached Azure · machine wash cold, gentle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Helena Bloom","offers":[{"title":"XS","offer_id":54340135190741,"sku":"1030122863344-0-1","price":149.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"S","offer_id":54340135223509,"sku":"1030122863344-0-2","price":149.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"M","offer_id":54340135256277,"sku":"1030122863344-0-3","price":149.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":54340135289045,"sku":"1030122863344-0-4","price":149.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":54340135321813,"sku":"1030122863344-0-5","price":149.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XXL","offer_id":54340135354581,"sku":"1030122863344-0-6","price":149.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/3691\/5925\/files\/ChatGPTImageJul26_2026_07_04_03AM_1.png?v=1785063862","url":"https:\/\/helenabloom.com\/products\/the-hadasa-dress","provider":"Helena Bloom","version":"1.0","type":"link"}