Ah ... the bandage dress

amandainvermont

amandainvermont

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There are 729 listings on eBay right now for “bandage dresses.”

A snowstorm and avoiding the tasks at hand ... I thought I’d find out more about the “bandage” dress.

Many believe that that Herve Leger created the Bandage dress in 1985 when he saw rejected bands of fabrics in a factory and he decided to wrap them next to each other to create a form-fitting dress.

Cindy Crawford was one of the first to showcase his design.

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Curiously - Max Azria bought the Herve Leger name in 1999 and the bandage dress debuted in the "Herve Leger by Max Azria Collection." Any Herve Leger bandage dresses produced since then have nothing to do with Leger.


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Leger is still designing, but has changed his name to Herve Leroux. This is one of his more current dresses.

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And if you have the body for one of these dresses, but not thousands of dollars, this one was for sale for $29.00 at a "Winners" store.

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Apologies to the many of you who already know all this info!
 
The bandage dress always looks dated to me.

Even the new collections look like they stepped out of the late 80's early 90's.

All the bridge and tunnel girls would wear these as they waited in line to go dancing at Limelight on a Friday night. They make me feel like I should be listening to C&C Music Factory. :P
 
Yeahhhhh, that's just something that I don't like either. I realize they don't make fashion for me or people like me, but that just rubs it in.

Are those two pale girls wearing plastic gloves from the deli counter?
 
Originally posted by vintagebaubles
I don't care for them, either.... And that one model looks so emaciated it hurts me to look at her.
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I know! How is that considered pretty? Now Cindy Crawford, she was (assumably still is) slim and athletic with some curves, and so beautiful for it! When did we get so far from that?
 
Jenn, what is so very sad about this death-camp look is that men, for the most part, do not like it, either! There was a survey done for one of the men's magazines quite a few years ago, and men overwhelmingly said they think women with soft, round curves are sexier and more attractive than these skeletons with flesh. My husband looks at these models and simply cannot "get" why this is considered beauty.

So young girls are being given this load of crap that to be attractive--especially to men--that they have to starve themselves. That you need to be 5'8" tall and wear a size 2.... Then you get breast augmentation and look absolutely ridiculous, with your 38D bustline pushing out over rib-showing midriff.

It is one thing to be small boned and/or naturally slender, but be healthy and let nature give you the curves you're going to have, whether that is buxom or slim.

Of course, it isn't healthy to be unnaturally overweight, either. Which, alas, is where I am now. But in my "prime," I wore about a size 8 or 10, and had what my friends & husband termed a "sexy Rubenesque" figure. Not my words, but theirs. I was not skinny, nor heavy, and was healthy--and looked it. Now, if I could only get back somewhere close to that! Of course, when younger, I looked fine as a size 4 or 6, being small boned and short. But even then, I got down, by accident, to under 100 lbs, and my parents were scared when they saw me. They thought I had some terminal disease or something; I looked like death warmed over.

The average American woman, as I gather, is a size 12. But in this culture of skinny, that's considered "fat." How sad....
 
Are those two pale girls wearing plastic gloves from the deli counter?
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It reminds me of Jerry, the Asian designer who was the first to be cut from last season's Project Runway. Remember his plastic raincoat accented by the rubber boots and yellow rubber gloves?
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