FYI: everyone is wearing underwear as pants—call it a fashion statement!
. Beyonce also solidified the “no pants” look on tour. But even before that, women like Tina Turner and Josephine Baker were wearing costumes that evoked intimate little nothings. This is a look that is intrinsically tied to performers. “Showing underwear for the lower part of the body is extremely radical,” says, a fashion historian and director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
In the ’60s, style icons like Edie Sedgwick wore black tights and underthings as a statement of boldness. But Steele says the look as we know it today is most closely associated with the ’90s. Vivienne Westwood spearheaded the underwear-as-outerwear look, and may be one of the best examples of the trend showing up on the runway decades ago. Consider her fall 1989 collection, which featured a bodysuit with a perspex fig leaf at the crotch area.
And as for whether we’ll be seeing more and more people wearing the look in real life? Steele compares it to the rise of the normalcy of wearing a bra in public, whether it’s a sports bra or one that’s subtly revealed under a shirt or blazer. “The bra exposure became quite normalized, partly by being incorporated into sportswear,” she says. “Another way it could become popular is through aestheticized body exposure at private parties.
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