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The Infinite Dress

Infinitedress
I wouldn't usually consider GMTV to be a great place to pick up fashion tips, but this morning they featured The Infinite Dress, which to my mind has to be one of the greatest inventions of all time if you spend a lot of your life living out of a suitcase. The dress was created back in 1976 by Lydia Silvestry (that's her in the red) for women who needed a versatile piece that would take them from day to evening. The jersey dress can be twisted, wrapped and tied to create 100 different looks...

Jersey dresses go through phases, but now the look is back with a vengeance thanks to designers like Rachel Pally and celeb jersey fans like Nicole Richie and Jessica Simpson. The infinite dress - celebrating its 30th anniversary this years - seems just as a fresh and current now as it did back in the 70s.

It will tie and wrap to create everything from a short sleeved kimono-style dress to a sexy backless number. Twist up the straps for a grecian, waist-cinching number, or wear it looser and one-shouldered to flatter a larger figure. There's also the option to add a neck ring, which means loads more halter styles and high-backed numbers.

I always look at multi-purpose items like this with a wary eye - my mom still has her homemade 70s scarf that supposedly became a top, a hat, a wrap but really just sat at the bottom of the wardrobe for thirty years - and the photographs on Lydia Silvestry's website don't really do this piece justice (they're a bit 80s). Still, having seen it on some models this morning, I'm very tempted to order a black one of my own. Pack this for your hols and you've got all your evenings covered!

Buy the infinite dress online from $199 (orders in 2006 get $30 discount)
UK shoppers can order the dress for £69.99 + p&p at Pitchwell from 15th July.

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Posted by Gemma on June 23, 2006 12:21 PM in CQ Discovers| Fashion News
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What will they think of next? Garlic Breeeaad?

Posted by: clashcityrockerkat | June 23, 2006 2:09 PM

That made me laugh out loud Kat! Apparently you can get Garlic Bread? tees now.

I want one that says "What are you wearing to travel in?"

Posted by: Gemma | June 23, 2006 8:21 PM

I wish that they showed all 100 of the combos, but that is a very cool idea. I just hope i would be smart enough to figure out how to wear it!

Posted by: Emily | June 23, 2006 9:39 PM

Peter Kay is my hero, I want a shirt with Brian Potter from Phoenix Nights on, in all his wheelchair gloryness.

Posted by: clashcityrockerkat | June 23, 2006 9:54 PM

It seems clever but sounds like one of those things I'd be unable to work out. Or it would come unwrapped while I was wearing it and embarrass me!

Posted by: Lucy | June 26, 2006 12:02 PM

I actually have that dress. The truth is there's only about two or three styles that look good. The fabric itself is nice and stretchy and super comfortable. But when you're twisting and tying it into different styles, often the twisted/bunched fabric doesn't look that great. For example, the one where the long tails are twisted so that it looks like a sundress with thin straps over the shoulders, that style didn't look good because after the fabric was twisted, they didn't look like sundress shoulder straps; they just looked like a thick rope of fabric over the shoulders. Considering you can wear one item in two or three styles, it's not bad, but not worth the $199 price I've seen on some websites. If anyone wants an more indepth opinion about this dress, feel free to write me. (Change the word 'mail' in the e-mail address; I deliberately misspelled it to avoid web crawlers trolling for e-mail addresses to SPAM.)

Posted by: Joanne | June 12, 2007 11:00 PM

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