Grey bamboo T-shirt for women
Grey is the colour of everyday life: softer than black, less demanding than white and at home in everything from the home office to town. This light grey T-shirt is knitted in bamboo viscose with organic cotton, so the everyday colour has been given a fabric that feels anything but everyday. The style is for women and comes in sizes S to XL.
Light grey suits most things
Light grey works with black, white, denim and all the earth tones, and it does something black does not: it looks soft and relaxed without looking scruffy. With joggers it signals weekend, under a dark blazer it signals working day, and it is precisely that range that makes a grey T-shirt one of the hardest working items in the wardrobe.
The fabric
The T-shirt is made of 70 % bamboo viscose, 25 % organic cotton and 5 % elastane. The bamboo viscose gives the characteristic soft, almost cool feeling against the skin and lets the fabric drape smoothly instead of standing stiffly. The cotton gives structure, and the elastane keeps the shape through the day. If you are curious about how a bamboo plant ends up as smooth knitted fabric, the process is explained under how bamboo viscose is made.
Fresh for longer between washes
The bamboo viscose carries moisture away from the skin and out into the fabric, where it evaporates. That means drier tops and less odour, because moisture is what the bacteria live on. In practice the T-shirt can therefore often be worn a day longer before it needs washing, and both the fabric and the washing machine are happy about that. The connection is explained under is bamboo antibacterial.
Home day and office day in the same top
Grey is the colour that most often survives the jump between working from home and meetings. With soft trousers at home it is comfortable without looking like nightwear, and with a blazer over it, it is presentable on screen and in the meeting room. Because the fabric drapes smoothly and hardly creases, the top looks just as good at four in the afternoon as at eight in the morning, and in practice that is what an everyday top gets chosen on.
Good to travel with
The bamboo viscose dries quickly and creases less than cotton, and that makes the grey T-shirt an obvious travel top. It can be washed by hand in the evening and be dry the next morning, it takes up little room in the bag, and the grey colour hides the small mishaps of a travel day better than both white and black.
Washing
Wash the top at 30 to 40 degrees with similar colours, avoid fabric softener, and let it air dry. Grey is forgiving: it can go in the machine with both the light and the half dark items, and it shows neither lint nor the chalky film that black and white can.
Size
The style comes in S to XL and has a regular fit with good freedom of movement from the elastane. Choose your usual size, and only go up if you prefer a looser, more relaxed drape across the hip.
When the sleeves need to be longer
The grey short sleeved one has a long sleeved counterpart in the same soft quality, an obvious choice when autumn sets in, see long-sleeved bamboo T-shirt. All short sleeved women's styles are found under T-shirts for women, and if you have questions about fit or anything else, the answers are under frequently asked questions.
