Shirt dress chic
IF YOU like to keep the sun off your arms (I do) and you prefer a fairly covered-up dress but with the option for unbuttoning so you can get your legs out a bit after dark (why not), then you’ll want a shirt dress.
Zara does a midi, longsleeved button-through print dress every year; this season it comes in either a dark blue or light blue and white paisley-style print (£49.99, zara.com).
Otherwise, Marks & Spencer has this belted lilac midi (pictured). You can’t go wrong.