To ask why all wrap dresses are designed to flash chest?

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Every one I've tried or ever bought without fail seems to be cut to the navel almost , necessitating a vest and therefore rendering it frumpy. Why? Why?
Yet I'm constantly told a wrap dress will suit me (kind way of saying I need help to find a waist o fear or that my belly needs hiding)
Sadly they do suit me but I cannot find one with a high enough neckline.
Rant over. I'm post migraine and angry and upset all at the same time. And my teen never talks to me. Sigh

Well ,done Gok wan. He really understands women’s bodies and worries. I didn’t know he had a collection at Sainsburys. What a fab find.

Depends on the dress, I have quite a few. Some gape and need a vest top and others fit like a glove.
We are all different shapes (I am tall with average boobs and a long body if that helps) I really don't think manufacturers are going to get it right for all of us so unless we all learn dress making skills we have to take what is available and work with it.

I just wear them with a v neck vest or a lace one. The rest looks good so why not. Hides my child bearing belly, floats off my hips and accentuates my still relatively small waist. If someone deems me frumpy then so be it! My boobs are ridiculous, so stitching looks even worse, too tight or gapes.

Some things are really basic that all or most women need to change, so why can't they be a default? For example, most of my buttoned shirts and dresses have buttons that are so sparsely placed that the shirt just gapes open whenever you move. Only ones that don't do that are advertised as this massive special innovation - we have added extra buttons!! Can't you just add them to all of them?

I'm now wearing my husbands swim shorts in size large and about to cry about my body. Size 14 but huge belly. I've moved on from wrap dress trauma to shorts now! DH says "well that's the thing. I didn't realise how big I was until I saw photos..........,". Pregnant pause. Thanks love 😞

I’m big chested and find them absolutely infuriating. Can’t even wear them because my breasts just spill out as they are all ridiculously designed.

I hate wrap dresses, they are always recommended for women with big boobs but unless I wore a vest top underneath they would be indecent.

I object to having to buy extra bits of clothing or add pins to make something wearable, men never have to deal with this shit, they can just buy clothes and wear them.

@KatharinaRosalie

Some things are really basic that all or most women need to change, so why can't they be a default? For example, most of my buttoned shirts and dresses have buttons that are so sparsely placed that the shirt just gapes open whenever you move. Only ones that don't do that are advertised as this massive special innovation - we have added extra buttons!! Can't you just add them to all of them?

The buttons thing annoys me because they never seem to stop at the right height. Always a button right at the base of the join of my bra cups and then one mid sternum which pulls really tight across and gapes and looks as tho it will burst. The former button height is flattering from the front but indecent and unprofessional from the side the latter height uncomfortable and unflattering. I always need a pin for smart shirts - which I also love wearing.

YANBU. I don’t wear them for this reason.

I don’t mind my cleavage being a bit on display, but I hate the inevitable attention it gets from men, so I don’t wear anything low. What a depressing state of affairs.

@NotMineToTell

I hate wrap dresses, they are always recommended for women with big boobs but unless I wore a vest top underneath they would be indecent.

I object to having to buy extra bits of clothing or add pins to make something wearable, men never have to deal with this shit, they can just buy clothes and wear them.

I don't agree with this. H has a long body and short legs, his tops never reach the waist of his trousers and he has to buy special long t-shirts to underneath everything. My dad (like me) has Mr Tickle arms and struggles to find any shirt to fit him in the body AND arms simultaneously. I think all bodies that are a little different from the norm have to make adjustments and accept their clothes options will be limited.

I use a safety pin had one on today

Loving the number of posts this thread has attracted. Clearly there’s a lot of pent-up wrap dress hatred out there.

On the subject of quality differentials, I buy men’s socks and flip-flops because they last so much longer. Also men’s denim shirts (much thicker, better quality denim) and walking shoes.