Alo Alosoft Courtside Tennis Dress ($118): With its thin straps and short liner, this dress isn’t designed to actually workout in, but it is great for petite women and generally comfortable to bop around town in.
Vuori One Shot Tennis Dress ($98): Overall, this is a fine, standard exercise dress, but the shorts don’t stay down, making it inferior to Lululemon’s Align Cami Strap Dress and Outdoor Voices’ Exercise Dress, which are the same style.
Halara Softlyzero™ Plush Backless Active Dress-Easy Peezy Edition ($44.95): This is a decent affordable exercise dress, and I appreciated the split liner for easy bathroom access. However, the shorts do not stay down and the seam on them creates bad chafing. Also, the phone pockets on the side of the shorts are unnaturally high. I had to lift up the entire skirt to access them.
Beyond Yoga Spacedye Refocus Dress ($48.50): This was another strong contender for styles without built-in shorts. The dress feels lusciously soft to the touch and has a flattering high-neck fit. For those who stand under 5-foot-5, the skirt length is on the longer side.
Carbon28 Strappy Dress in Melt ($134): This dress felt luxe and was very comfortable to wear, but it had no shaping to the liner, and the shorts were always showing underneath the skirt. Also, the fabric held on to moisture in the heat. For the price, there are better options.
FP Movement Never Better Dress ($118): I loved this dress. The material was a little too thick for hot days, but the skirt is cute, the shorts stayed down decently well, and the built-in bra was supportive enough for light activity.
Vuori Daily Tennis Dress ($118): A great cut for athletic body types, this dress is well-designed for real exercise, true to Vuori’s reputation. It doesn’t have a built in bra, which some might like, but this made it less convenient as a grab-and-go outfit.
Wiskii Cross Back Tennis Dress ($108): This dress has a very sweet cut, but it is so incredibly short, especially considering it doesn’t have any liner underneath.
FP Movement Smockin Hot Dress ($118): This dress was so, so short.
FP Movement One More Serve Skortsie ($108): This dress is made for a single and very specific body type — the straps on this dress are very, very long (as with most Free People clothing) and the contours hug in weird places.
Wiskii Mirto Knit Sleeveless Dress ($128): This dress is very cute with a knit, heritage tennis vibe, but it’s certainly not for working out (or even being sweaty in). The interior shorts are practically non-existent (their inseams are barely an inch long) and overall it felt quite heavy.
Alo Airbrush Streamlined Dress ($128): The perfect “Clean Girl” exercise dress, I loved the aesthetic of the piping and the brushed softness of the fabric. The shorts don’t stay down, but this dress is so cute that it’s almost forgivable.
Alo Alosoft Backspin Dress ($128): I was surprised by how great this dress is. The cut is very flattering, and the high neck is offset by the short skirt, creating a flattering dress for larger-chested women. The shorts don’t stay down, but they don’t cause any chafing, either.
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