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Give Your Denim Shorts A Break With These 27 Summer Dresses From Shopbop

These one-and-done dresses are easy, breezy, and ~totally~ ready to slay your entire summer.

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by Jamie Sanders BuzzFeed Contributor

I have been a BuzzFeed Shopping contributor since 2025, focusing on fashion, beauty, and home goods, and have been featured over the past two decades in InStyle, People, Apartment Therapy, Well+Good, Shape, Today, AOL, and Insider.

Unless otherwise specified, all sizes in this post are listed in women's.

1. A Reformation plaid mini dress perfect for daytime picnics and afternoon frolics. It's crafted in airy linen, which is the fabric of summer, so it's an obvs no-brainer for your warm-weather wardrobe.

Shopbop

Price: $148 (available in sizes 0–12)

2. An English Factory oversize striped dress you can wear casually with sneakers or go fancier with strappy heels and gold jewelry. This is that dress you'll be sooo glad you packed for your Eurotrip!

Shopbop

Price: $120 (available in sizes XS–XL)

3. A Pistola denim mini dress, because maybe you can't completely give up your jeans, and that's okay. But rather than struggle into heavy jeans this summer, why not wear this cute lil' number instead?!

Shopbop

Price: $188 (available in sizes XS–XL)

4. A Hill House Home midi nap dress, since this style is HH's signature thing, and it's basically imperative that you have at least one in your closet. And in blue and white gingham with pretty puff sleeves? I mean, how much more summery can you even get?

Shopbop

Price: $228 (available in sizes XXS–XXL)

5. A not-so-mellow-yellow Solid & Striped plaid babydoll dress giving ’90s in the absolute best way. Like, I can totally picture wearing this with my chunky Mary Janes, ruffled ankle socks, and a latticework choker necklace. Actually, all of that is back in style now, so cut to me buying this and wearing that exact ’fit ASAP.

Shopbop

Price: $238 (available in sizes S–XL)

6. A Farm Rio linen mini dress patterned with vibrant lobsters — aka ~the~ dress to wear on Martha's Vineyard, the Cape, in the Hamptons, you get it. Everyone around you will be totally clawstruck at how cuuuute you look.

Shopbop

Price: $210 (available in sizes XXS–XL)

7. A Le Bop drop-waist mini dress my ’80s-loving heart can't waittt to get my hands on! 😍 And in Sabrina Carpenter-coded espresso brown? I mean, be still that specific beating heart even MORE!

Shopbop

Price: $158 (available in sizes XXS–XXL and two colors)

8. A Lioness white midi dress designed with angled seaming at the waist and delicate pleats, pretty much sealing this as the summery white dress your closet's been missing. Plus, Lioness is the brand behind the viral, sold-out-everywhere red jacket Hannah and Allie both wear in Off Campus, so you'd better get your hands on this baby ASAP!

Shopbop

Price: $100 (available in sizes XXS–XXL)

9. An Agua Bendita x Stoney Clover Lane fit-and-flare mini dress, because I'm more than mildly obsessed with all things SCL, and this dress is gorgeous with a capital GORGEOUS. I mean, that cabbage rose print? The latticework back? The little strawberries hanging from the neck ties? TO DIE FOR.

Shopbop

Price: $250 (available in sizes S–L)

10. A Le Bop eyelet maxi dress you can throw on over a bikini and head up the boardwalk to grab lunch in between playing in the waves. Tropical vacay, hooray!

Shopbop

Price: $148 (available in sizes XXS–XXL and two colors)

11. A Minkpink mini dress patterned with every beachy item under the sun. (Pun intended!)🦞🐚☀️ We're talking lobsters, shells, starfish, the sand's the limit! Plus, you'll love the open-back detail that'll keep you cool even when the temps are scorching.

Shopbop

Price: $139 (available in sizes XS–XXL)

12. A floaty Lisa Says Gah mini dress embellished with sweeter-than-sweet details like tiered ruffles, puff sleeves, lace trim, and the teensiest rosette detail at the neckline. I have a strong feeling that this is about to become my most-worn summer piece.

Shopbop

Price: $178 (available in sizes S–XXXL)

13. A Free People denim mini dress making a serious style statement as the chicest update of a classic shirtdress I've seen yet. From the drop-waist silhouette to the halter ties and smocked back, this is a definite head-turner!

Shopbop

Price: $128 (available in sizes XS–XL)

14. A Staud red crocheted mini dress embroidered with blue-and-white starfish. I mean, does it get ANY more beach vacay-ready than this?! Answer: No. No, it does not.

Shopbop

Price: $225 (available in sizes XS–XL)

15. A Seven Wonders polka-dot maxi dress since I'm obsessed with polka dots and add more of ’em to my closet every chance I get. And this drop-waist dress with halter ties is one billion percent calling my name, especially since it'll be the perfect one to wear to every dang event on my summer social calendar. And it has pockets! POCKETS!

Shopbop

Price: $149 (available in sizes XS–XL)

16. And a 4th & Reckless maxi dress with side cutouts — since, speaking of polka dots, this is sooo Vivian stomping the divots in Pretty Woman coded. And since I'm as obsessed with her outfit in that scene as I am with polka dots, obviously I'm buying this AS WE SPEAK.

Shopbop

Price: $100 (available in sizes XS–XL)

17. A Wayf mini dress printed with bunches of bananas. I repeat, it's PRINTED WITH A BUNCH OF BANANAS. 🍌 I don't know if I've ever seen a more a-peel-ing dress in my life! This must be what Gwen Stefani's B-A-N-A-N-A-S was about, right? RIGHT?

Shopbop

Price: $79 (available in sizes XS–XL)

18. A Show Me Your Mumu strapless maxi dress, giving utter whimsy thanks to a bold fish print that's honestly making me want to pair it with a tinned-fish lunch on the beach, staring out at the waves crashing on the shore. 🎣🎏 Doesn't that just sound divine? I've been a fan of this brand's dresses for years — they just never, EVER miss.

Shopbop

Price: $228 (available in sizes XS–XL)

19. A Susana Monaco black-and-white polka-dot mini dress Minnie Mouse herself would ❤️! This is perfect for the #disneystyle girlies who are always looking for ONE MORE Minnie-themed piece to wear on the daily (um, raises hand enthusiastically 🙋‍♀️).

Shopbop

Price: $208 (available in sizes XS–XL)

20. A Bailey Rose tropical-patterned mini dress with flowers, leaves, and coconuts. 😍🥥 Whether you're headed to Bali or just want to feel like you are, this dress will get you in a vacay state of mind!

Shopbop

Price: $95 (available in sizes XS–L)

21. A La Maregold flowy, floral-printed mini dress you can wear to outdoor concerts, farmers markets, weekend brunches, rooftop parties, pretty much any summer activity you can think of! The off-the-shoulder silhouette will keep you from sweating your a** off during the day, and then you can add a light denim jacket for cooler evenings. Talk about a style win-win!

Shopbop

Price: $190(available in sizes XS–XL)

22. A Sea ruffled midi dress somehow expertly toeing the line between casual and dressy. Like, you can run errands during the day with flip-flops or fisherman sandals. Or, you can fancy it up with statement jewelry and gold strappy heels. Either way, it's fabulous.

Shopbop

Price: $130 (originally $325; available in sizes 00–14)

23. A Vrg Grl tiered and ruffled mini dress I quite literally swooned over when I spotted it. This is EXACTLY my vibe, people. I love tiers. I love ruffles. I love oversize and flowy mini dresses. I love tied shoulder straps. I mean, this is TAILOR-MADE for me, and I already bought it, soooo 😍. 

Shopbop

Price: $154 (available in sizes XS–XL)

24. A For Love & Lemons corseted, fit-and-flare mini dress in a blue-and-white polka-dot print, finished with intricate bow ties at the back. This is a statement-maker at its finest, and I am here for it!

Shopbop

Price: $238.50 (available in sizes XXS–XL)

25. A Dress To mini dress you have to take on vacay because look at the beachy print! It's adorable!

Shopbop

Price: $159 (available in sizes XXS–XL)

26. An En Saison button-down mini dress designed with allover white polka-dot embroidery and sweet scalloped trim. It's giving ’60s mod (aka my all-time favorite fashion era), and I'm picturing wearing it now with flat sandals and into the fall with white go-go boots and a leather jacket.

Shopbop

Price: $132 (available in sizes XS–L)

27. A Varley tank dress, seemingly simple at first — but then you notice the allover crochet, the side slits, and the triangular knit trim, and you realize it's sooo much more. I've been a fan of Varley for, well, forever, and the fact that Hannah wears the brand in Off Campus definitely doesn't hurt (that pink and burgundy knit she's rocking in the last episode, FYI). This knit dress is begging for its main character moment!

Shopbop

Price: $178 (available in sizes XS–XL)

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