Wrap dresses

I like wrap dresses but being short of body, although long of leg, I can never find one that contains my boobs. They are always far too low.

Artaylar I’m another strawberry(32E) petite who suits shift dresses but not wrap dresses. I think it might be to do with my lack of a waist! Perhaps an hour glass shape or a longer waist, suits a wrap dress well? Some wrap dresses are so pretty- just not on me!

PaperMonster

I like them! I’m a 34F. I do find that I need to put a brooch in the V as they always come to far down for me. But I have a short body. I find them flattering.

This is me as well. I have a short body and if a dress has an elasticated or drawstring waist they end up all baggy at the top. I often have to change the belt loops on dresses and coats.
I actually look better in a wrap dress with a blazer or long cardigan on top somehow it puts my body into proportion. Although I am not tall I have long legs so 7/8 trousers on me are like capris.

Artaylar

I'm petite with big boobs and find that wrap dresses suit me and downplay the boob bigness.

Now shift dresses - a totally different matter. I've always looked as though I'm about the start the washing up in them.

Isn't that strange Artaylar- I'm petite with big boobs too, but I find wrap dresses accentuate my boobs and shift dresses minimise them!

I only tried on a wrap dress once. I looked like Mrs Overall.

I had a notion to try on a wrap summery dress last week. I looked like one of those burst bags on the airport luggage reclaim conveyor that produces gasps of sympathy on its way round.

I like them but with a stitched in place skirt. Sometimes the top needs a stitch or two as well . I don't like a broach as that means I can't wear beads or a chunky necklace.

I neither like or wear them.

I think wrap dresses look good on someone with a bit of shape (a bit of boob going on), which isn't me. I'm also a bit pear shaped, so they're either too big on top or too small on the hips.

Back in the 70s when I was tall and slim I had a very nice denim wrap dress that I made myself. It always looked very smart. Fast forward 50 years and they don't work for me at all. Just look frumpy.

I'm petite with big boobs and find that wrap dresses suit me and downplay the boob bigness.

Now shift dresses - a totally different matter. I've always looked as though I'm about the start the washing up in them.

Instant turn off if it says "wrap dress"
Not for me.

Although I am not overweight and am modestly endowed, wrap dresses look awful on me, like Millie22 says I look like parcel, and an untidely wrapped one at that.

The only purpose the fashion advice by Gransnet serves is to know that any style they recommend is best avoided unless you want to look a total frump.

I bought a very pretty wrap dress two summers ago - mainly because I loved the colour. What a mistake - I have since had to put a couple of stitches in the bodice to hold that part of the wrap together for decencies sake, and another lower down to hold the skirt, as on one shaming occasion I had my bra and knickers on show in a strong breeze, and believe me that was NOT a good look. I should have remembered the very smart but similarly disastrous linen wrap skirts I bought some years ago when very slim - one white, one sludge green. They were so elegant - until I tried to walk about, or stay decent in a high wind.

MiniMoon
Snap! I am the same and my daughter is also tall and slim so looks good in a wrap dress.

I just look like a sort of parcel ?

Oh!
I like wrap dresses, though I tend towards the type that have a wrap top and a fully sealed in skirt rather than the wrap skirt.

I'll think twice and have a good look in the mirror before I sling them on now!

I don’t think any one dress style suits everybody, wrap dresses included. I don’t like dresses at all, but a structured wrap dress would suit me okay. On the other hand I’d look awful in any dress with a round neck, or a boat neck because I’ve got broad shoulders and a small waist compared with bust and hip sizes and they look unbalanced on me. Take note Gransnet, we aren’t all the same.

I am a dumpy, short woman and wrap dresses are not flattering tied either loosely or tightly.

I have a midi length wrap dress that I wear in a variety of ways, but always over something. In summer it’s over a vest top or camisole and cycling shorts. In winter it’s over a long sleeved top, leggings and boots.

My daughter looks good in wrap dresses. She is 5' 7" and slim. I look awful in them. I'm 5' 3" and apple shaped.
These days I like to wear something floaty.

They remind me of the wrap around pinnies my Nanna wore.

Don't suit me either - I am 5ft nothing with 38E boobs!

MerylStreep

They always remind me of my mums pinny

Yessss! That's why I find them frumpy!

I like them! I’m a 34F. I do find that I need to put a brooch in the V as they always come to far down for me. But I have a short body. I find them flattering.

'The other style tip that annoys me is that 'black always looks good': it definitely doesn't suit me, which I knew before I had colour analysis done.