Linen and blue were made for each other and we are completely convinced this is not an accident. Blue in linen has a particular quality, something to do with how the fabric takes the colour unevenly, slightly worn in even when new, the kind of effortless that synthetic fabrics spend their whole existence trying to fake. And linen itself is genuinely the best answer to heat that fashion has produced. It breathes properly. It gets better looking as the day goes on rather than worse. The creasing is part of it, not a flaw.

We have been pulling together our favourite linen blue dresses across styles because this combination deserves a serious edit. There are relaxed shirt dress silhouettes that work over swimwear or with sandals in a city. There are more structured options in deeper navy that carry themselves through an evening without looking like they tried. There are pale blue linen midi lengths that are practically a whole mood on their own. These dresses solve the specific problem of looking genuinely good in the kind of heat that defeats everything else in your wardrobe.