Outlet Trudie Dorothy Blue Ruffled Dinner Napkins – Set of 4

A set of four cloth dinner napkins in Trudie’s Dorothy Blue print, finished with a ruffled edge.

Blue napkins are the useful ones. Blue is the rare color that reads fresh in spring, easy in summer, and crisp against every white plate in between, so blue dinner napkins earn more use per year than a seasonal print ever will. Dinner size matters here too. A table napkin that actually covers a lap changes how a meal feels, and it is the difference between a real place setting and a folded square of decoration.

The ruffle is the Trudie signature, soft rather than fussy, and it holds up to folding.

What size are dinner napkins? Dinner napkins are typically 18 to 22 inches square, with 20 by 20 inches the most common size sold in the US. That is substantially larger than a luncheon napkin or a cocktail napkin at roughly five inches square, because a dinner napkin is meant to drape across a lap rather than sit beside a glass.