White gets a bad reputation for being high maintenance and we understand why. One splash of anything and the day is ruined. But a white maxi skirt earns that risk in a way very few other pieces do. The length gives it genuine elegance. The colour makes everything around it, your tan, your accessories, your top, look more considered than it probably is. That is a useful trick and we are not above it.

What we have been particular about in this edit is fabric and cut. A white maxi skirt in cheap fabric looks exactly like a white maxi skirt in cheap fabric. The good ones have weight, or movement, or structure, ideally some combination of all three. We have gone looking for the versions that photograph well, that work from a beach bar in the afternoon to somewhere that requires a bit more effort in the evening, and that do not immediately read as an outfit you panicked about.

These are the white maxi skirts we would actually wear. That is always the only standard that matters here.