The return of the shorts trend to fashion weeks

In September to early October, most of the world’s luxury brands present their fashion shows during fashion weeks. As you know, fashion weeks provide an important part of the fashion calendar to buyers, designers, retailers and publications. In fact, these are the fashion weeks that show the current and future trends to everyone.

Milan Fashion Week – Spring and Summer 2024

Trends play an important role in the career path of fashion industry activists or even other businesses; Among the most impressive of them in fashion weeks, we can mention the return of the trend of shorts, underwear and their changes and developments. In this article in Sarak’s wardrobe magazine, we analyze this trend completely. Stay with us.

New York Fashion Week – Spring 2024 Collection

History of underwear and shorts in fashion

While men in Europe and the United States traditionally wore underwear on the upper and lower body, women’s underwear was mainly for the upper body.
Before that, there were no pants or other underwear for women; Because it belonged to the sub-group of men’s clothes. In the middle of the 19th century, Amelia Bloomer revolutionized fashion and politics by popularizing bloomer trousers. These pants were generally loose and their length extended from the waist to the knees or ankles. Women also started following this style to get rid of heavy clothes and to protest against gender inequality.

The 90s, a door to independence in women’s clothing

At the beginning of the 90s, due to the increase of women’s suffrage, the cumbersome layers of clothing that limited the display of body parts fell out of fashion and led to the emergence of controversial and very different styles. In the 1920s, women had adopted a free style of life to the extent that they were given the nickname flapper. Flappers had boyish haircuts, smoked cigarettes, and wore short skirts and underwear.

London Fashion Week 2024 collection analysis

Thong style and display of bones

With the trend of short crotch pants and thong style, which is derived from a kind of American underwear, the appearance of bones and body protrusions reached its peak. Celebrities such as Paris Hilton and Christina Aguilera played an important role in this field; Very short shorts and showing part of the underwear had influenced the fashion industry.

The return of trends

Changing fashion trends is one of the most important rules in the fashion industry. The world of fashion does not have a fixed trend and is constantly changing and reviving forgotten styles and trends. Every season, designers and fashion industry activists try to use notable standards and styles in their artwork. Trends were usually modernized and returned to the fashion scene after 30 years with social changes; But today, with the increase in the speed of life, this period has decreased to 15 to 20 years. (Photo 10)
From 2023 to the Spring/Summer 2024 collections that were recently held in 4 fashion capitals, there is a strong return of short shorts, jorts, or denim shorts, and underwear.

Check out the shorts trend in fashion weeks

With a short look at the collections displayed in the fashion weeks, one can understand the creativity of designers in recreating shorts and making changes in their dimensions, form and shape.
In the women’s collections, most of the shorts, which were similar in size to underwear, were depicted as if the designers had agreed to show more of the models’ legs; But this trend could also be seen in men’s collections.

Last year, the Miu Miu brand brought back the y2k style Micro Skirts to the fashion scene. In continuation of this trend, short shorts also made their way to the fashion scene and became one of the most important items of the spring of 2023.

Shorts or short shorts had a place in most of the collections. Tom Ford’s collection was among the collections that contained a large number of this item. Many materials were used in this car; From leather and silk to velvet, they all played their role well in the design of short shorts.

In Prada, Raf Simons, the creative designer of this brand, unveiled high-waisted shorts with pleats in the front in his summer collections. These shorts were combined with Hawaiian shirts and jackets in the men’s collection, and with a simple, monochromatic belt in the women’s collection.

The presence of shorts and underwear in fashion week collections had different uses. In the Miu Miu collection, these items took on a sporty nature; Such as golf shorts, tennis shorts and swimming shorts. On the other hand, LaQuan Smith collection’s shorts and shorts were perfectly designed to participate in glamorous parties and discos.

The Jw Anderson brand team unveiled a kind of deconstructive style in the use of new materials by designing clay shorts at London Fashion Week; But other designers, including Glenn Martens in the collection of two brands Diesel and Y/Project, portrayed their avant-garde ideas in other ways, such as covering underwear over outer clothing items or designing shorts that did not look stable on mannequins. (Photo 24, 25, 26, 27)
It seems that due to the rising temperature all over the world, the interest in wearing shorts and removing extra details from clothes is increasing more and more; But as mentioned earlier, the trends will not remain stable for a long time and may be completely forgotten or changed in the coming years.

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