  We introduce dressed Wilson loops as a novel confinement observable. It
consists of closed planar loops of arbitrary geometry but fixed area, and its
expectation values decay with the latter. The construction of dressed Wilson
loops is based on chiral condensates in response to magnetic and electric
fields, thus linking different physical concepts. We present results for
generalized condensates and dressed Wilson loops on dynamical lattice
configurations and confirm the agreement with conventional Wilson loops in the
limit of large probe mass. We comment on the renormalization of dressed Wilson
loops.
