Ice cream dressing

Show your true colours in fun and flirty patterned sun dresses from the new Irish label Drop Dead Gorjess, writes ROSEMARY MACCABE

RELEGATE YOUR LITTLE black dress to the back of the wardrobe until October at least – it’s still summer – and that means there’s no better time to show your true colours in a fun and flirty patterned sundress.

Inspired by the seaside holidays of yore, this fashion shoot offers a dress for everyone – from the pink bodycon minidress suited to the young and lithe among us to the flirty, graphic printed dress with parallel ruffles to streamline and lengthen the body. The addition of a pair of cropped leggings would make this more school-run than sun holiday.

If you missed out on Versace’s HM collaboration, take a look at this scarf-print dress, which takes inspiration from the baroque prints of the Italian fashion house and breaks them down into the simplest of shapes and contours.

Bandage dresses in homage to Herve Léger are going nowhere fast, regardless of the fear this prospect may strike in the hearts of many. Bubblegum pink makes a serious statement while muted slate grey is kept modern by stripes of black and neon yellow.