Summer wrap dresses: a dress that always looks good

TueWhen I’m looking for a new dress, I usually leave the store with sagging shoulders. Sometimes this is due to the fact that I hang things back simply because too many, for my taste, had a brand emblem sewn on or an inconspicuous buckle. First of all, it’s because of my figure.

The fashion industry doesn’t seem to notice women like me.

Don’t worry, I don’t want to whine, I mean it from a practical point of view: there are two to three dress sizes between my upper and lower body, and the fashion industry rarely wants anything from women like me. The playful summer dresses have enough room for my hips, but my waist is buried in too much fabric. In sheath dresses, everything is fine at the top, but my legs and buttocks push the fabric unacceptably far apart. Least of all, long dresses suit me, which should fall straight and freely down the body. My legs stop this attempt, causing the tissue around my belly to compress without being filled. If I then take a size larger, the shoulders will be cut.

It took a while, but now there’s a ray of hope in this misfortune: a wrap dress. I discovered this last summer and now I’m more than thrilled. Wrap dress is difficult only at the beginning. The ribbon on one side of the dress must be threaded through the hole on the other side while it is already on. Then the ties are tied around the body as tight as you want, the dress overlaps at the front, bow at the side, done. I recently bought myself a wrap dress for my wedding. Putting it on made me feel like a kid who doesn’t want to wear anything but cool new shiny shoes all day long. First of all, the feeling that nothing would suit me anyway disappeared. Triumph, despite all the unrealistic sizes of clothes. Finally!

The wrap dress doesn’t care that my hips are significantly wider than my waist. It accentuates the narrowest part of my body, the fabric underneath falls freely. Wrap dresses are available for all occasions at any price: linen for the office, patterned or translucent for the beach, to glitzy fabrics for the evening. The cut does not specify anything and forgives everything. If my stomach is stretched because the food was too tasty, I can just tie it looser. It’s incredibly comfortable, I don’t have to pull anywhere, at best I have to bounce the overlapping fabric cutout back into a symmetrical shape from time to time. Only at the end of the day I can’t concentrate on this piece of personal freedom: when I undress, I always trip over one of the ties that are still half tucked into the dress.

Source: Frantfurter Allgemeine

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