The Find: Simple, Affordable Wrap Dresses
Dec 9, 2020
Wrap dresses are my favorite. And when you’ve gained a little weight (and who hasn’t during the pandemic), you can buy them one size bigger so that they’re always flattering. They’re comfortable and still look professional.
There are a lot of lovely, affordable wrap dresses on sale at Old Navy right now. This ribbed-knit oatmeal dress is fabulous (also in tall and petite). It’s also offered in black.
These dresses are so easy. Wear them to work with a blazer. Wear them on Friday with flats. Wear them on the weekends to cocktail hour with high heels and a statement earring.
The dress is also available in maternity and plus-sizes. So there is no good reason to miss out on this dress.
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I’ve gained weight during the pandemic but as always, it goes to only one place. Not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing… My belly! Would sizing up in a wrap dress help to disguise? The wrap dresses I have seem to accentuate the pouch. Please help, love the style of dress!
You should try to find some wrap dresses in prints – a good larger scale print can help camouflage a lumpy belly. Solids just seem to accentuate it (especially lighter colored solids).
Sizing up my help. As the reader said, I think a pattern would help. I would also look into these Spanx underwear that just provide a little tummy shaping, but aren’t tight at all. Can’t remember what they’re called but they have a lace rear.
Are there women that wear dresses that low cut to work?? Or is everyone wearing a cami or tank top under this style of dress? Having to wear a bra, tank/cami, tights, and a slip often negates the “ease” of throwing on a dress in my mind!
I sew a snap into the top of all my wrap dresses to avoid the low-cut/cami issue. If you position the snap well, it holds and just looks like the V of the dress ends a bit higher.
This is so timely- I just posted a question about weight gain to the Facebook group!
I always look extremely voluptuous in a wrap dress, even sizing up. It doesn’t seem to matter how I style it, I end up with the lush figure of a bygone era…