Evening Wrap Retailers
Stores selling evening wraps for formal outfits
An evening wrap is a wide length of dressy fabric worn over the shoulders with formal clothing, giving bare shoulders and arms a hint of coverage while keeping the focus on the dress. The description carried by the department store listings here says it well: elegant evening wraps keep the focus on a designer dress but provide just a hint of coverage, and the sheer, gauzy fabric lets skin show through for extra allure. Wraps run the gamut from thin lengths of material to wide poncho-style coverings. Bloomingdale's and Saks Fifth Avenue are the department store listings, with Dillard's alongside, and the category shades into its neighbors in every direction: shawls for the wider and warmer version, stoles for the narrower formal version, scarves for the neck-sized version, and the pageant sash and neckerchief pages for the ceremonial and casual ends of wrapped fabric. A wrap is the accessory bought last and used most on the night: in photographs, in cold venues, and on the way home.
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Add shawls and evening wraps to your wardrobe and let these multi-purpose accessories provide the finishing touch to your outfit. Casual outfits also benefit from women's shawls. Wraps run the gamut from thin lengths of material to wide poncho-style coverings. Evening Wraps & Stoles at offer a modern energy & style to your wardrobe.
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Add shawls and evening wraps to your wardrobe and let these multi-purpose
accessories provide the finishing touch to your outfit. Elegant evening
wraps keep the focus on your designer dress but provide just a hint of
coverage for bare shoulders and arms, and the sheer, gauzy fabric lets
skin peep through for extra allure.
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If you have an interest in shopping for evening wraps, you may also have an interest in retailers selling shawls, scarves, stoles, pageant sashes or neckerchiefs.
Wraps Beyond the Evening
The same piece works outside formals. Shawls and wraps dress up a plain casual outfit, cover shoulders in sun as readily as in cold, and serve as travel blankets, church coverings and theater layers. The listings here note that casual outfits also benefit from shawls, which is why the wrap, shawl and stole pages of this directory should be read as one family: buy the fabric and width for the main use, and the piece will cover the others.
Care follows fabric: sheer and beaded wraps are stored flat or rolled, never hung by a corner, and cleaned gently since beadwork and metallic threads dislike agitation. A wrap is also one of the most borrowed items in a wardrobe, which argues for choosing a neutral that lends well.
Common Questions
What is the difference between a wrap, a shawl and a stole?
Size and formality more than construction. A wrap is the general term for a wide length of fabric worn over the shoulders, and evening wraps are the dressy branch, in sheer, satin, beaded or metallic fabrics made to sit over formal dresses. A shawl is a wrap in the wider, warmer sense, the everyday-to-formal piece also worn casually. A stole is narrower and more formal still, traditionally fur or heavy satin, worn with evening gowns. In retail the words overlap, which is why this directory keeps a page for each and cross-links them.
When is an evening wrap worn?
Whenever a formal dress meets cool air or a coverage rule: outdoor photographs, evening ceremonies, air-conditioned ballrooms, places of worship with shoulder rules, and the trip home. The wrap's job is to complete the outfit rather than cover it, so it is worn draped over the shoulders or elbows, not wrapped tight like a coat. Sheer wraps are the summer and indoor choice; satin, velvet and beaded wraps carry winter formals and add visible weight to a plain dress.
How should an evening wrap be chosen for a dress?
Against the dress, in person where possible. The wrap should pick up the dress's color family or its metallic accent rather than match it exactly, sheer black, metallic gold or silver, and beaded neutrals work over most dresses. Fabric weight should follow the dress: gauze and chiffon over light gowns, satin and velvet over heavy ones. Length is the fit point: a wrap should reach around the shoulders with enough left to drape, since a short wrap rides up and is fiddled with all evening.
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