Easy-going Wrap Dresses Enhance Feminine Curves

Jessica London Plus Size Fake-Wrap Print Dress

Wrap dresses are a fashion favorite and have been ever since Diane Furstenberg revolutionized style with the simple idea in the 1970s.

It was the perfect dress for the era of the sexual revolution -- zipless, buttonless, held in place with a string tie at the waistline. Why you could take it on and off as easily as a bathrobe.

The way the jersey knit fabric clung to curves, combined with the permissive climate of the times, made it an imminent possibility that fast-change might happen, too.

Faux Wrap Front Can Be a Design Plus

There was one tiny defect for us gals were were less than well-endowed: The front V kept slipping into revealing positions. A pin rarely helped. All that did was torture the fabric into over-stretched lines.

The faux-wrap front dress, left, interpreted for Jessica London for the plus-size figure, does away with this embarrassment. The fully-lined polyester georgette features a floral pattern.

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