Why buy a recent top when you possibly can just wear your skivvies as a shirt?
A web based fashion influencer known for her unconventional outfits has popularized an unorthodox recent trend that involves styling two thongs as a crop top.
Joslyn, also often called @sieling.j on TikTok, showed off 3 ways to wear panties as a shirt in a video, which has been viewed nearly 10 million times.
“Wearing underwear as shirt ’cause I can,” the fashionista wrote.
Within the 20-second clip, Joslyn breaks down how different underwear styles could be used, starting from skimpy skivvies to bloomers. First, she demonstrates the creative hack by taking two different coloured Calvin Klein thongs and crossing them over one another to make a bralette. Then, she uses cheeky shorts and granny panties to indicate off the clothes’ versatility.
Her viral video has now influenced others to present the trend a try.
Aurea Andrades, also often called @aureareadykids on TikTok, styled her version of an underwear top with silk pants, a leather skirt and a coloured jacket.
Even fuller-busted women got in on the trend. TikToker @emopeppapiggg showed that using panties as a top could be done on all body types in a duet video with Joslyn.
“Watch this girl prove my hack works on big boobs,” Joslyn wrote, “since everyone assumes this is simply for little bitties.”
While Joslyn’s video has recently gone viral, TikTok influencer Sophie Wood, whose handle is @goodwoodx, can have began the trend when she tried out underwear as a shirt back in 2020.
Commenters were mixed on the brand new trend, with some thrown off by the concept of using undergarments as a top and others calling it “genius.”
“I mean in the event that they clean and also you haven’t worn them I don’t see an issue with it,” one other chimed in, while another person called it “lowkey cute.”
“Okay but why do they really look decent,” added one other commenter.
Underwear brand Hanes even jumped in to comment, “That is so cute and inventive!”
Others were less forgiving concerning the idea of panty-tops, with some calling it “gross.” One person commented, “Simply because you possibly can doesn’t mean you must…”
“There’s literal shirts like that just buy them,” another person said. Added a 3rd: “It’s cute until someone asks, ‘Where did you get your top from?’”
