The Bandage Dress is Hot
The bandage dress is back in style thanks to the shapely Kate Winslet. The immensely popular and talented actress showed up on the red carpet in a charcoal grey bandage dress and now this type of dress is flying off the racks of fashion boutiques in both North America and Europe. For those of you not familiar with this type of dress it is made out of a series of crises crosses of fabric. Usually the top bodice is quite high cut and the design may feature a criss crossing bandeau of fabric across the rest. Sometimes the bodice is more halter like. The fabric is very shaping and elasticized and the criss crossing design does suit quite a few different figure types. The signature of the bandage dress is usually a series of criss crosses that extend across the ribs, throughout the waist, across the hips and down through the thighs. Sometimes the dress is shorter but the coolest version, (the charcoal version worn by Winslet) goes to just below the knee. This beautiful dress is not for the faint of heart as it will highlight every curve of your body. She was not the only celebrity spotted around the holiday season wearing this dress. There was also Cheryl Cole, Kelly Brook and Rachel Weisz sporting the sexy tight fitting dresses which are not for a self conscious individual. The version that Kate Winslet was wearing actually cost thirteen hundred U.K. pounds which is roughly 2600 U.S. dollars. The good news is that brands such as Topshop and French Connection are making knock offs of this particular style so everyone can now afford it. You will soon be able to find knock offs from Asia and India as well as it is such a popular design. The most slimming color is probably the black version of this dress followed by browns. If you are going to wear a louder color like candy apple red in this style be careful! This is one of the most figure hugging designs that there is… This is not a new style. We first saw celebrities like Madonna and the model Gia wearing it in the early eighties. Bandage style dresses whether tightly wound or looser in style were very popular, especially among French and Japanese Designers. It was definitely a clothing design movement that had its roots in the punk and New Wave scenes at the time. The appeal of the style today is that it has been redone for 2008 and 2009. It is happier and trimmer in flair. The tight layers of elasticised fabric are not only body clinging but they also can be body trimming. The way the dresses are designed today they pinch in the waist, lift up the bosom and straighten out the back to give you a statuesque looking figure.