There are two summer items that everyone needs to get pitch perfect. Two wardrobe friends that you’ll call on each and every day. For rooftop drinks, picnics in the park and even office air-conditioning wars, there’s little as important to your sunshine wardrobe as dresses and sunglasses.  For this week’s team tries, we’ve hit the rails to find our favourite dresses and sunglasses styles to wear this summer, and created gifs using the unique Zoe feature on the new HTC One (M8) smartphone which creates gifs in an instant, at your fingertip.

There are a million places you’ll want to wear a dress this summer from a wedding to the beer garden, and there are plentiful trends to choose from. Bright white will off-set a tan with fabulous Riviera vibes (just add gold accessories and Champagne), pleats for a sharp edge on classic formal dressing, a midi will pass for the office and after work, and a vibrant print, bold stripes or a paint-box colour will make you shine as bright as the sun just about anywhere. Here’s how we’re wearing the trends.

Carrie Tyler, editor wears her own Jonathan Saunders dress, Ursula Lake, fashion director wears her own Topshop dress, Elin Evans, junior fashion editor wears Coast dress, Joanna McGarry, beauty director wears D.Efect dress, Kelly Bowerbank, deputy editor wears her own Peter Jensen dress, Laura Silver, staff writer wears Designers Remix dress

The most in-your-face accessory deserves maximum attention when the sun shines and there is a bounty of sunglasses trends to choose from this summer. In fact, why choose when you could rotate your frames – it’s not like you wear the same jeans every day, is it? We road-tested this summer’s matte frames, as well as new takes on classics including retro cat-eyes, aviators, tortoiseshell and oversized styles. Top tip: pair with a bright lipstick and you’re ready to take on the sunshine. 

Carrie Tyler, editor wears Quay sunglasses, Ursula Lake, fashion director wears Triwa sunglasses, Elin Evans, junior fashion editor wears Celine sunglasses from Sunglasses-shop.co.uk, Joanna McGarry, beauty director wears Next sunglasses, Kelly Bowerbank, deputy editor wears Kurt Geiger sunglasses, Laura Silver, staff writer wears Ralph Lauren sunglasses from Sunglasses-shop.co.uk

Come behind the scenes on our shoot as we try the summer dresses and sunglasses trends and capture them in action using the unique Zoe feature on the HTC One (M8) smartphone. Selfies just for real… 

Clueless’ Cher Horowitz famously said, ‘I don’t rely on mirrors, so I always take Polaroids’. Fast forward to 2014 and we’ve switched insta-photos for HTC Zoe’s; short moving images that bring our clothes to life when nailing down our favourite looks. Come behind the scenes with us as we hit the rails to find our perfect summer dresses and sunglasses, capturing the edit with our HTC One (M8) smartphone.

This brand new smartphone from HTC is as beautifully designed as the fashion on our summer wishlist.

The super-slick, durable, high quality metal unibody flows right up to the 5-inch, full HD (1080p) screen, tapering to thinner edges, with softer curves for a smooth, more natural grip, AKA, you’re not going to drop it in the sea when you’re doing beach selfies.

It's pretty sleek too – the technical business inside the phone are so small that the whole thing is a mere 9.35mm (0.37”) thin. Just what you want if you’re going to stick a chunky jewelled case on it, or you know, if you want to keep it streamlined may we direct you to the fabulous dot view case).

Take a closer look and get ready to want one.  

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Want a brand new HTC One (M8) smartphone, worth £550, to snap your summer wardrobe? Two NEVER UNDERDRESSED readers will walk away with a top new phone along with HTC accessories including the HTC Fetch, worth £35, so that you’ll never lose your phone; a Boombass speaker system, worth £76; and a dot view case to style your HTC One (M8) smartphone as you like it.

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