16 editors' favorite summer dresses

We took it upon ourselves to call in and try on the most popular summer dresses on under $40. Even though some of our picks have more than 60,000 reviews, we were surprisingly disappointed in quite a few of them, so check out the ones that did actually make the cut below.

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