A smart dress is one of those investments that pays off repeatedly across years. The right one works for interviews, for important dinners, for client meetings, for events where you want to look properly pulled together without having to think too hard about it. We’ve been looking for the ones that manage to be smart without being stiff. That have a certain ease to them even within their polish. These are the smart dresses we’d buy with confidence knowing they’ll earn their place in the wardrobe many times over.