A woman wearing a wrap skirt

A wrap, in the context of clothing, is a simple skirt-type garment made by wrapping a piece of material round the lower body. Many people of both genders throughout the world wear wraps in everyday life, however, in the West, they are largely worn by women. They are sometimes sewn at the edges to form a tube which keeps the required size. They are secured using a knot, ties, or in modern examples buttons or velcro.^[1][2][3][4]

Traditional examples[link]

• Dhoti and Lungi, worn in India.
• Lava-lava, worn throughout Oceania.
• Sarong, worn throughout South-east Asia.
• Ta'ovala, worn in Tonga.
• Kanga and similar garments worn in throughout Africa.

Modern examples[link]

• Beach wraps - In the west, sarongs and towels are sometimes worn as wraps at the beach.^[5]
• Wrap skirts - skirts made in the design or style of a wrap.
• Wraps are sometimes worn for doing Yoga ^[6]
• Weather wraps, wraps designed to be water- and wind-proof.^[7]

See also[link]

• Wrap dress

References[link]

Look up wrap in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Wrap or WRAP may refer to:

Storage and preservation[link]

• Overwrap, a wrapping of items in a package or a wrapping over packages
• Plastic wrap, a thin, clear, flexible plastic used to cover food
• Shrink wrap, a polymer used to bundle boxes on a pallet for transport
• Gift wrap or wrap paper, used to enclose a present

Media and the arts[link]

• Wrap (filmmaking), the end of filming on a movie set
  • "That's a wrap!", an idiom often used by a director on a film set
• wRAP (album), 2002 album from Finnish rapper Kana
• "Wrapped" (Gloria Estefan song), the lead single from Gloria Estefan's album Unwrapped
• "Wrapped" (Bruce Robison song), a Bruce Robison song; covered by Kelly Willis in 1998 and George Strait in 2006
• WRAP (AM), the first radio station in Central Florida
• WRAP-CA, a low-power television station airing infomercials in Cleveland, Ohio on channel 32
• Gallery wrap, a method of mounting an artist's canvas onto a frame
• Word wrap, how text is continued onto the next line

Marketing and finance[link]

• Wrap advertising, a method of advertising on vehicles
• Wrap account, a financial product/platform in which a brokerage manages an investor's portfolio for a flat quarterly or annual fee
• Service wrap, a set of non-core services which are bundled with a core service to form a complete package of services that are sold

Products and services[link]

• Sandwich wrap, a food item where an outer shell is wrapped around another food item, often a standard sandwich filling or vegetables
• Mud wrap, a type of spa treatment
• Wrap (clothing), a skirt-like garment

Other[link]

• .wrap, computer video file format
• Waste & Resources Action Programme, a nonprofit quango in the United Kingdom
• Wellness Recovery Action Plan, a therapeutic method and series of self-help books
• Western Regional Advocacy Project
• Wireless Router Application Platform, a very small form factor personal computer
• Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production, a not-for-profit organization in the United States
• Worldwide Responsible Apparel Production
• To wrap up, an idiomatic verb used to indicate the completion of a task
• Wrap-up, a slang term for a conclusion or summarization
• A form of vandalism where a victim's property is covered with toilet paper

See also[link]

• All pages beginning with "Wrap"
• All pages with titles containing "Wrap"
• Wrapper (disambiguation)
• Wrapping (disambiguation)
• Cover (disambiguation)
• Enclose (disambiguation)

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