The Wrap Dress is Born

Season after season, the flawless wrap dress finds itself reworked, redesigned and reinvented on the runways of modern designers, but one woman alone can take the credit for the fabulous little package that is the wrap dress.

Introduced to fashionable women by the legendary powerhouse of style, Diane von Furstenberg in the 1970s, more than three decades later the wrap dress continues to be as flattering and curve-loving as ever. Of course, wrap-style dresses have been around for centuries, such as the kimono and toga, but the modern wrap dress has streamlined, simple lines that every woman can appreciate.

According to the Belgian born designer's website, in 1972, Diane von Furstenberg's concept for the contemporary wrap dress began as a cotton jersey shirt dress similar to a wrapped dancer's sweater. And just a few years later, in 1974, the shirt prototype was elongated into the fabulous frock commonly known as the wrap dress.

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