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A trend believed to be dead is returning to the catwalks. But very few should be pleased – he drove us into despair in our youth.
Miu Miu is the cheaper label from Miuccia Prada and is specially designed for younger customers. Yesterday the label presented its new collection at the “Paris Fashion Week” and presented a trend that was believed to be dead: mini skirts that reach just below the bottom and sit low on the hips.
Representatives of my generation should quickly remember the terrible time when every piece of clothing had to sit low on the hips. Grandparents joked about whether it was still a skirt or a belt – and you yourself sat at school with a growling stomach so that the trendy clothes just fit. The trend reached its peak when Christina Aguilera wore such a tight skirt in her video for “Dirrty” that the public was outraged by the content of the song and the accompanying video.
Extremely short mini skirts: Christina Aguilera showed us how to do it
Slutshaming was the order of the day and Christina Aguilera flirted with the supposed slut image. The corresponding album was appropriately called “Stripped” and here, too, the singer appeared on the cover in low-rise jeans that almost reached her pubic bone. That her figure was more than unhealthy could be seen in the following years, because Aguilera had to struggle with weight fluctuations again and again.
Today’s buxom Christina is the human proof. Later the singer tried to score with femininity by pretending to be a kind of 20ies burlesque artist, but apparently no rooster was crowing after her. The teen star’s sad holdover are the department store perfumes that bear her name. That conveys the message: You are only interesting if you are young and thin.
Bodyshaming preprogrammed
But that’s exactly what worries me about the new trend: in order to wear it, you have to be young, thin and without curves in the best case. Bodyshaming is practically pre-programmed when the girls have the so-called “muffin top”, that is, the bacon rolls that protrude from the waistband and can be seen over the short skirts. But big surprise dear fashion industry: We women have hips and a small belly, because that’s quite right for medical reasons alone. After all, we harbor important organs in our abdominal cavity.
Nobody needs this trend
It is hardly surprising that influencers who convey a toxic body image have long been celebrating the collection on Instagram. My hope lies with the youth, who are now much more politically active and live more consciously than my consumption-addicting generation of the late 90s and early 2000s was. Maybe they don’t chase every damn fashion hype like we do. Because no one needs this trend anymore.
I am a 24-year-old writer and journalist who has been working in the news industry for the past two years. I write primarily about market news, so if you’re looking for insights into what’s going on in the stock market or economic indicators, you’ve come to the right place. I also dabble in writing articles on lifestyle trends and pop culture news.
