bandage dress

noun

An elasticated dress that wraps tightly around the wearer to accentuate the profile of the body.

Meanings

nounbandage dress (plural bandage dresses)

plural bandage dresses

  1. An elasticated dress that wraps tightly around the wearer to accentuate the profile of the body.

    Did she really want to be skin and bone, great in one of those bandage dresses but nothing to look at once she whipped it off? No.

    2010, Coleen Nolan, Envy, page 140
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    Where they carried Chanel bags and wore Alaia bandage dresses, Kate wore jeans and a vest top. Her boots were clumpy and her hair unstyled.

    2009, Laura Collins, Kate Moss: The Complete Picture, page 45
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