Wrap dress

Wrap dress

Type	A garment with wrap over front closure
Material	Diverse
Place of origin	Asia, especially influenced by China and Japan
Introduced	Europe and United States

A wrap dress is generic term for a dress with a front closure formed by wrapping one side across the other, and is fastened at the side or tied at the back.^[1] This forms a V-shaped neckline. A faux wrap dress resembles this design, except that it comes already fastened together with no opening in front, but instead is slipped on over the head. A wrap top is a top cut and constructed in the same way as a wrap dress, but without a skirt. The design of wrap-style closure in European garments was the results of the heavy influences of Orientalism which was popular in the 19th century.^{[2][note 1]}

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