20 Flowy Dresses For When It Gets Too Hot For Anything Else

Slip into a sunny summer dress that encourages a relaxed state of mind.

Summertime is the time of year when there’s a real desire to wear clothes that feel unrestricted. For several designers and retailers, the free-feeling power of a sundress offers up ample opportunity to focus on a single garment that works day after day when the weather warms up.

It might be the sweet gingham baby-doll style from Kowtow or perhaps the patchwork medley from Alemais evoking the spirit of the Summer of Love, the nostalgia of that period often returning this time of year. While it’s difficult to reduce this particular spirit of the 60s to a single garment, there’s a reason why the mood continues to inspire the type of languid, loose, and uninhibited dresses we see below.

Dominique Healy A-line dress $455.

Ruby cotton maxi dress $299.

Bird & Knoll dress, $459, from Father Rabbit.

Twenty-Seven Names pinafore dress $450.

Assembly Label dress $190.

Juliette Hogan dress $459.

Kowtow organic cotton voile dress $349.

Widdess cotton midi dress $289.

Kate Sylvester cotton midi dress $379.

Alemais dress $449.

Staud maxi dress approx. $595.

Zara dress $75.90.

Venroy tiered dress $255.

Hej Hej linen dress $340.

Karen Walker organic cotton dress $325.

Aje tiered dress $720.

Par Moi handmade dress $320.

Faithfull The Brand cotton dress $233.

Gregory dress $429.