What? A maxi dress: a 1970s-inspired, floor-sweeping, often patterned, casually glamorous gown. Think sirens such as Talitha Getty, Joni Mitchell, Jane Fonda.

Where? Other than Mustique? Try Etro, Roberto Cavalli, D&G, Missoni, Bally or Jean Paul Gaultier – and then try not to feel like you need to be standing on a sun-dappled terrace gazing out over an azure sea, or romping through fields of bluebells.