 A faux wrap dress resembles this design, except that it comes already fastened together with no opening in front, but instead is slipped on over the head.A wrap top is a top cut and constructed in the same way as a wrap dress, but without a skirt.Although it is often claimed that Diane von Fürstenberg 'invented' the wrap dress in 1972/73, Richard Martin, a former curator of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, noted that the form of Fürstenberg's design had already been "deeply embedded into the American designer sportswear tradition," with her choice of elastic, synthetic fabrics distinguishing her work from earlier wrap dresses.