Linen clothing can only be affordable two ways.
1) It contains no to very low actual flax linen material
OR
2) It's a low-quality linen fabric, or a thin weave.
Unfortunately, both are equally common in affordable linen clothing garments.
Needless to say, some people might genuinely want a thin weave for their linen clothing, depending on the use case. However, the majority of people do not want a thin weave for their clothing at all.
It is all too common for someone to buy a linen clothing garment only to find that it is see-through, or partially see-through. It is equally just as common for someone to buy something labeled as 100% linen, but in reality contains a very low actual linen in content, if any at all.
Consumers must do everything that they can to ensure when they go to purchase affordable linen clothing that they are actually buying the real thing.
There are extremely few merchants in the world that offer quality clothing with high-quality, pure flax linen fabrics. It is also extremely difficult to source a reliable, high-quality flax linen fabric supplier. This is why the majority of linen fabrics are blended, and high-quality linen fabrics are produced in-house by some of the leading couture brands.
If you're in the market for affordable linen clothing, you will need to shop around for single layer, thinly woven linen garments. You will also need to check the material composition, and care labels. However, when shopping online, this can be very difficult to execute.
We are currently focused on producing more affordable garments with some of the world's highest quality, pure flax linen.
In order to do this, we need to cut the supply chain as much as possible to get as close to the source as we can. We also need to make smart purchasing decisions for fabrics, consider, considering that the price fluctuates (depends on timing with the linen harvest and surplus of supply).