What I wore this week: a summer dress you can actually wear

Catwalk fashion has a grown-up, wearable approach to what a summer dress should look like in 2016

I don’t know about you, but skipping through meadows chasing butterflies is not something that takes up a huge proportion of my time, not even on bank holiday weekends in spring. Am I the only one whose leisure hours do not stretch out beneath fluffy clouds, like Lily James in a Disney film, with a schedule that reads: pull on flimsy dress, skip around under fluffy clouds, lie down in long grass for picturesque nap?

I ask only because I had a free half hour the other day and quite fancied a quick retail hit, but was thwarted by the fact that every dress on the shop floor was from the chasing-butterflies school of summer dressing – pale, floral, flimsy, with ruffles and ribbons just asking to trail prettily on a light breeze.

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