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The Wrap Dress Myth: How "Easy" And "Flattering" Is It Really?

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Seeräuber Jenny
11/20/08

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Do coat dresses next.
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TRexstasy
11/19/08

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I swear, I learn so much about the lives of women from Jezebel. I have become THE GAY to talk to at cocktail parties thanks to all the things I've learned reading this blog.

Yay, Jezebel! Servicey in ways you don't even realize.
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brendastarlet is on it
11/19/08

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I had a genuine DVF wrap back when I was in high school and wish I'd kept it, but I had to safety pin the top to keep it from gapping. I have a Monsoon wrap dress that I bought in Waterloo Station that I adore; I've worn it regularly for two years. It isn't a tie wrap, but a faux wrap, and I wear a cami under it. Great with boots.
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Ski Bunny?
11/19/08

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The belt always looks funny on me, and my boobs are almost always falling out. It just looks like I am going to perform in some weird porn set in an office with a tall, chubby, busty girl (yours truly) starring.
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brendastarlet is on it
11/19/08

@Ski Bunny?: a faux wrap (Boden sells a lot of them) is a much easier cut to wear.

@velcrosneakers: I get great tanks at H&M that provide more cover. They're $7.99 each. You have to hunt for them, but they're usually in the back of the store where the workout clothes live.
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SnowWhitesLegacyofLies
11/19/08

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Gotta disagree with you, Sadiekins. (and everyone else, it seems.) I'm really curvy with c/d boobs and I live in DVF wrap dresses. However, I've found that almost everyone (except those built straight up and down) need to get the dress 1 size bigger than usual. (I wear a size 12 in DVF, 8/10 in most other brands.) If you need a cami, I suggest one of the gap cami bras..they give you the coverage but not the bulk in the waist/back area. And ALWAYS with a slip. I think I need to start a BringBackTheSlip Revolution.
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brendastarlet is on it
11/19/08

@SnowWhitesLegacyofLies: I'm another slip girl! Especially with a dress, if it isn't lined. Nothing more attractive than tights cling.
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hollygirl
11/19/08

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My tits are always falling out. And wrap dresses do nothing for my hips.
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Aesop's Foibles. YES.
11/19/08

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I bought a DvF wrap when I worked at Neiman's. Even with my discount it was expensive as shit but I had to have it. It's the black one with big white polka dots w/ short cap sleeves. I looooove wearing it cause it makes me look like I have this womanly figure which I absolutely don't have (except for the butt-definitely got one one of those). It makes me look really proportioned or something. My gripe is that there is not a single pair of undos that are not visible under it. Also with y'all on the overly deep neckline. I wore it with a red slip underneath, it works pretty well.
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Diziet_Sma
11/19/08

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Late on this, but yes, total myth. Make you look lumpy and feel insecure, in my experience. If you have a killer bod, I guess they'd work - but then, what wouldn't?
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SkipToMyLou
11/19/08

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I was contemplating the other day whether the wrap dress is now only a bigger-girls dress. Thanks to years of WNTW and other makeover shows we know a wrap print is flattering on a full figure, does a wrap now signal- yo, I'm big? I cannot recall seeing a small girl in a wrap dress.

PS- I am def. one of the big girls in a wrap dress here. 5ft4, 160 pounds.
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Cafezinha
11/19/08

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Wrap dresses make me look dowdy and old. Something about the way they usually cut across me is unflattering on many levels.
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SkipToMyLou
11/19/08

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I'm pretty short- and pretty lumpy- definitely booby- I love a wrap dress but the key is a *faux* wrap (well, semi-faux). Get one where one side is already sewn to the other so you just have one piece of fabric to pull around you. A full wrap dress, where only slippery jersey fabric knots and crossed fingers are keeping the contraption together is a recipe for a day of self-conscious clothes fidgeting.
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Red-headed bookworm
11/19/08

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I've never found one I'm comfortable in. The ones I've tried on go down too low and show too much cleavage.
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tscheese
11/19/08

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Also, my favorite dress right now is actually from freaking Kmart. It's knee-length, black tough springy jersey, with 3/4 sleeves. It's got kind of a faux-wrap V-neck top. The V is trimmed with a one-inch swath of black velour, and there's a wide band of the same material around the ribcage. It also has a long wide velour sash that ties in back.

It makes no sense how much I love that dress. It makes my waist look teeny.
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SkipToMyLou
11/19/08

@tscheese: Dude, my two favorite wrap dresses at the moment are by Merona of Target. I believe they were each the princely sum of $24.99
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Lymed
11/19/08

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I did almost flash a boy I had a huge crush on when my wrap dress unwrapped itself while sitting on a bar stool, but...I love my wrap dresses! Two hints.

1. I buy spaghetti tanks at Zara's to wear under my wrap dresses. No plunging neckline, much more work appropriate, and you can pop the right color out of the dress.

2. I bought my DVF wrap at Filene's Basement.
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bowleserised
11/19/08

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I used to have a fantasy that one day I would be a proper grown-up and my wardrobe would consist of five of these + amazing boots. And I would never have to think about clothes again.

But curves + height + scoliosis + wrap dress = NO.

I would rather have a bunch of Vivienne Westwood off-the-peg frocks.
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