https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-dvf-wrap-dress Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:53:11 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-dvf-wrap-dress#post-1610661 Tue, 02 Feb 2016 15:51:01 +0000 Angie 1610661@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This is an excellent wrap dress for curvy women. Much better than the regular DVF if you need more coverage and substantial fabric. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-dvf-wrap-dress#post-1610557 Tue, 02 Feb 2016 05:28:34 +0000 anne 1610557@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love the look of wrap dresses - but they don't suit me at all. I've never tried DVF, but for the style in general, I'm just too flat chested. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-dvf-wrap-dress#post-1610553 Tue, 02 Feb 2016 04:59:32 +0000 Beth Ann 1610553@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My DVF knockoffs have died, after many years of wear, but I think they can be terrific on a curvy figure. &nbsp;Most of mine were a size 12. &nbsp;My cheaper versions (from Kohls and Target!) were a thicker fabric, and were either black or a print, which I think fools the eye into smoothing things out a bit. &nbsp;I would size up when you try them on, because I think a bit of shirring and drape is more flattering. &nbsp;I loved to wear them under jackets and belted with a wide belt, too! &nbsp;That last tip helps add structure and gives definition to a waistline that isn't 20 anymore! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-dvf-wrap-dress#post-1610422 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 21:09:07 +0000 Gail 1610422@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have never had any success with wrap dresses. Mostly I have found the fabric too thin and therefore showing every lump and bump and the tops always gape. I did have one that was close from Talbots but it was a fake wrap, the top did work but I really didn't love the whole fit enough to keep it I think I passed it on with the tags still in place !</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-dvf-wrap-dress#post-1610414 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 20:54:23 +0000 Jules 1610414@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ok couple of thoughts...<br />Like Janet I am a short-waisted. Once upon a time I also had a waist like Janet and in those days, wrap dresses in general were one of my best and easiest to wear cuts. Part of figuring them out (for me) was learning to wear a cami underneath, unless perchance I wanted to be a bit busty, then hey, I had that option. But when I bought a wrap I made sure I had an appropriate cami.<br />I did generally prefer a bit more of an a-line, and something other than clingy jersey. In summer I would wear bike-length lycra shorts underneath which helped flatter as well as make sure I was always covered in the event of wind or my ties came undone. My best ones cost more than say H&amp;M and had decent overlap and well-constructed, long belts. It's not a cut to skimp on fabric with, I suppose, which fast fashion will do. But I've had some cheapie fake wraps that weren't bad either.<br />I think if you have, like me, a lifetime of struggling with many many dresses that are cut too straight, and/or with a waist somewhere closer to your generous hips than your actual waist, wrap dresses can be a godsend and maybe even very flattering. At one time they could take me from bumpy 8-hourglass to something closer to a proportionate x-hourglass. Honestly, one of my most conventionally feminine/flattering looks. But I've had a tall, slim rectangle friend who can wear a lot of things tell me she can't do them at all.&nbsp; <br />Now I've never tried the DVF dresses, so I don't know how they stack up now or in the past...</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-dvf-wrap-dress#post-1610410 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 20:52:17 +0000 gradfashionista 1610410@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have a DvF dress coming in the mail today that I tried on at the store. I have a pearish/small-busted hourglass figure, and had written off wrap dresses years ago. However, this dress has a structured bottom half, which creates a fit-and-flare silhouette. It may not be the look you're going for, but it does create a flattering silhouette. It isn't as low cut on me as it is on the model. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-dvf-wrap-dress#post-1610407 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 20:50:30 +0000 Style Fan 1610407@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I had a DvF on my fantasy wish list.&nbsp; I always thought it would be a great dress to have for weddings and just maybe come in a colour I liked.&nbsp; Now I am hearing that I waited too long to try one on and see the magic.&nbsp; I really don't want to look like a sausage. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-dvf-wrap-dress#post-1610404 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 20:46:18 +0000 rachylou 1610404@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Another Oh! I'm definitely short waisted. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-dvf-wrap-dress#post-1610401 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 20:32:25 +0000 Ooh is that silk 1610401@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I haven't been lucky enough to try a DVF original, but I have tried masses of wrap dresses. Being busty and short-waisted, they are really hit and miss depending on the cut.</p> <p>Shallow wrapover or straight-cut = weeping in the changing room at my sausage shaped jersey covered form;<br />Generous overlap, seamed waist tie, just-over-knee length = gorgeous, rip the tags off and wear it home fabulousness. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-dvf-wrap-dress#post-1610347 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 18:00:06 +0000 catgirl 1610347@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I can't wear these either... I think you need some exact proportions for this style of dress to work properly.&nbsp; Can't be too busty, too flat, too hourglass, too straight, etc.&nbsp; Amy what's-her-face wore these so well in American Hustle, but there was a lot of cleavage going on too.&nbsp; </p> <p>Janet, maybe you are the ideal DVF woman!</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-dvf-wrap-dress#post-1610289 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 15:36:16 +0000 LaPed 1610289@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm an hourglassy size 0-2 and I've passed on every wrap dress I used to own (never tried the DvF though). They all look liked maternity wear to me. :-/ </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-dvf-wrap-dress#post-1610256 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 14:15:09 +0000 Janet 1610256@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>MsMaven, I think you hit on part of why this dress is good for me and so difficult for others -- it's for the short-waisted! I just realized it when you said that. I was always confused because I'm pretty busty and not "thin" and others complained that this dress would not close over their bust. But because I am short in the torso and narrow across the back, there is adequate fabric to give me just enough coverage. I imagine that is not the easiest proportion to find in women, and it's also part of what makes it so hard for someone with my build to carry off straighter dresses. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-dvf-wrap-dress#post-1610162 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 05:04:22 +0000 MsMaven 1610162@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>From the time they first came out to now I could never wear a DvF wrap dress. I couldn't get why people raved over them. I have had wrap dresses that worked. Hers are too short in the waist and the top doesn't really wrap--just gapes open. Funny how such a dress with such a fab reputation just doesn't work for many of us. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-dvf-wrap-dress#post-1610114 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 02:49:53 +0000 rachylou 1610114@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, I guess I should note the dress is sleeveless... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-dvf-wrap-dress#post-1610113 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 02:46:57 +0000 Janet 1610113@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Dresses are hard, period. At least it seems that way to me. I have no idea why the DVF wrap dress (the longer hem style with the longer sleeves) works for my body and seems so problematic for others, and it's a bit ironic, because I have so few occasions to wear it since my life is so casual. </p> <p>I got this DVF pictured here about 3 years ago. I had another one before this one but I had unfortunately bought the first one in a size 6 at my skinniest point in quite some time, which I fear I will not achieve again. So I sold the first one, and the newer one pictured here is a size 8 and still fits (although I could stand to lose 5 lbs or so before wearing it after this holiday season). I love this dress but it's not easy to make it casual day wear or art-gallery rock'n'roll cool, you know? It's great for weddings, bar mitzvahs, etc. I had the front stitched closed where the wrap overlaps so I don't have to layer a cami underneath. </p> <p>It seems other ladies can easily wear cool and casual straight or short dresses and look amazing, and they never look good on me. I take consolation that a dress exists that looks good on me, even if I rarely ever get to show it off. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-dvf-wrap-dress#post-1610109 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 02:30:48 +0000 rachylou 1610109@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I've got an old DvF. It's a bit too suburban for me now, but I hang onto it because I do find it looks good. The material is heavy so it doesn't make you look lumpy, and this version has a bit of collar - more structure up top. I gather they're not made like this anymore. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-dvf-wrap-dress#post-1610100 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 02:13:32 +0000 Jules 1610100@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ugh, a DVF wrap was always on my maybe-someday list of nice things to own... Too bad they've gone downhill. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-dvf-wrap-dress#post-1610051 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 00:28:28 +0000 Lucy 1610051@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Interesting! I love wrap dresses, I am all curves and they are the easiest fit of all dresses for me. I am a size 6-8 in US sizes ( I think ... I'm Australian!). I look for darker colours and a small pattern, as lighter shades and flat colour do show every lump and bump.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-dvf-wrap-dress#post-1610047 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 00:14:23 +0000 Staysfit 1610047@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Maybe try the T72 style if you can find any. They are cut slightly fuller and IMO may fit better. They're my favorites. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-dvf-wrap-dress#post-1610034 Sun, 31 Jan 2016 23:44:15 +0000 Angie 1610034@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The DVF wrap dresses used to be a LOT more flattering. I have clients with DVF wraps that are 6 to 10 years old that look killer sensational. And yes - a curvy figure filled it out to perfection. </p> <p>Unfortunately, the DVF wraps since then have been an inferior fit most of the time. Too short and too skimpy on the bust and shoulder. They barely cover anything and are in flimsy fabric too.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-dvf-wrap-dress#post-1610024 Sun, 31 Jan 2016 23:26:59 +0000 Nebraskim 1610024@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have never been able to wear them because I am so extremely small on top that the wrap part just hangs open. I also do not care for such an exposed decolletage. I'm a 12, mostly straight up and down with a wee bit of pear tendency in my thighs.</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-dvf-wrap-dress#post-1610023 Sun, 31 Jan 2016 23:21:24 +0000 olga 1610023@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>thanks Lisap, it comforts me i am not alone like that, internet is full with statements its so flattering, so i can not understand it on me </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-dvf-wrap-dress#post-1609984 Sun, 31 Jan 2016 22:08:54 +0000 Anonymous 1609984@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm with you Olga. I'm a 6-8 right now, and find those dresses brutal. &nbsp;The jersey shows every single cell on your body &nbsp;it seems and I can't figure out how it was supposed to be so flattering. Anything that needs heavy Spanx support is more than I can deal with. &nbsp;I'm also curvy, and have breasts that look way too out there in this dress - again, what is up &nbsp;with this?? &nbsp;I personally think it's for the super thin and small breasted, unless you're ok with looking super-sexy in a body -con way &nbsp;, which I am decidedly not.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-dvf-wrap-dress#post-1609974 Sun, 31 Jan 2016 21:50:15 +0000 olga 1609974@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>i wonder what is your opinion on DvF wrap dresses for somewhat curvy woman like me, i am US size 10-12; tried one wrap dress once and could not figure out what is flattering about it. May be these are better on thinner people? and i for sure needed a slip dress with it, otherwise not for work... </p>