Even millennials can no longer avoid this look

EThis spring, a small piece of fabric is reminiscent of the great history of the miniskirt. A Londoner who was young 60 years ago is said to be its inventor – Mary Quant. Although a Parisian designer, namely André Courrèges, can also be held responsible for the trend at this time. And although the miniskirt had been a striking stage prop for decades, aside from being in fashion. With Mary Quant – and the model Twiggy – the mini skirt became a symbol of youth from 1962 onwards.

Jennifer Wiebking

Editor in the “Life” department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper.

If you are looking for a typically youthful piece of clothing today, you will quickly find yourself in the crop top, long known in experienced circles as a crop top. It annoys parents, but teenage girls still wear it, it’s been like this for years. Like the mini skirt back in 1962, the crop top isn’t exactly new either. The mothers of today’s thirteen or fourteen-year-olds will still remember the navel-gazing in the eighties, for example during aerobics. And after the crop top has been dominating pedestrian streets and the Instagram feed for a while, it is now, like the miniskirt before it, becoming the fabric of designer collections.

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In any case, on the September catwalks, a particularly large number of brands whose clientele is not exclusively Gen Z women (those born after 2000) took on the small piece. Apparently nobody can avoid this look. The following brand examples with Generation Y core customers (those born after 1980) show it: Sandro and Miu Miu (available in the online shop Mytheresa). everything is now cropped: Also the blouse by Attico and the long-sleeved shirt by Jacquemus, both of which can also be ordered via Mytheresa. The crop top sometimes shrinks to crochet bra size, see etro.

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As in the 1960s, without the appropriate body image, fashion would be just an empty shell. We remember Twiggy’s skinny legs with a miniskirt. The good news: Today there are healthier counter-movements to the obsession with slimming, and under the crop top you can occasionally see a little belly fat in addition to the exaggeratedly trained ab crack.