An off-shoulder maxi dress in handkerchief linen cuts a chic ... But remember, given the free-flowing nature of linen, you must not compel the fabric into forms it cannot take,” she advises.

It took up to nine yards of linen handkerchiefs to create just one yard of her uncrushable pleated fabrics. But the canny Welshwoman seduced style icons around the world with it, including ...