If only they were cotton. They're "high quality" if they're cotton. They're usually made of materials for swimsuits. Considering the girl in the 3rd photo is holding an iphone 7 plus and based on my knowledge as a teen back them, my guess is mid 2010s because of bbl bodies as a beauty standard and because of online shopping.
E: Yeah this was a previous style that got brought back and revamped+VERY cheap materials, and no the Kardashians didn’t invent or popularize it but they did make it a staple of their own style and fashion once it was already trending.
Kardashians just copied black women. The “beauty standards” they propagated were already in full force amongst millions of Americans before they came along.
U ain’t got to tell me, i agree lol im a black millennial, I remember a world when black beauty was not even recognised in the free market. The kardashians made black beauty a standard, making it palatable for Europeans as the Kardashian’s are Persian so not white, but not black. The lips, the cheekbones, the pulled back slicked back pony, the skintight clothes that show off curves. They’re all found frequently among black women of all shapes, sizes and nationalities.
I agree about the Kardashian being culture vultures, but for example is what an average woman from Naples looked like in the 90s and I can guarantee you they were not inspired by black culture.
It's very hard to pinpoint the exact inspiration for fashion as every fashion is referencing something else/not original
Not sure why you would say a trend in 90s Italy was not influenced by American pop culture. People have been taking their cues from black culture worldwide since blues, jazz and rock′n′roll went global. By the 90s, hip-hop was right up there with it, joining its predecessors funk and disco.
Look through the 90s - Coolio, Shaggy, Tupac, the Fugees, Bob Marley were all top hits in Italy by mid-decade but even in 90 and 91 you′ve got Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson setting trends. The late 90′s and y2k aesthetic was HUGELY defined by hip-hop′s global explosion. Micro braids and faux cornrows like the above ensued where they had never gone before, lol.
The only difference is that the big hair is missing. Watch literally any hair metal band music video from 1987-1991 and youll see something very similar in every shot.
Cheap tight dresses have been a thing since the 1960s, but this specific look was not common (if it existed at all) in the 1980s. The fabric would’ve been thicker and less stretchy (in neither case are they remotely cotton), it would’ve had a sweetheart neckline or something, it would’ve had a pattern maybe, etc.
Dresses like this almost flaunt how cheap they are, by being very unadorned and of thin material. It’s a post-Instagram and online shopping thing.
Exactly! Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman made her skin tight, barely there dress famous in 1990, but they were popular starting in the mid 1980s and became mainstream fashion in the early to mid 1990s. Everybody wore them from Madonna to squeaky-clean “good girls” like Kelly on Saved By The Bell, and Donna on Beverly Hills 90210.
Right! Me born in 1977 is thinking "I had a collection of skin tight cotton dresses starting in 1991 during my metal days". It's been a thing. It's a cheap tight cotton dress.
These cheap dresses are never cotton. A 100% cotton dress wouldnt stretch the way these do, these dresses are usually 75-100% synthetic. These are bodycon dresses and they were mainly the big ticket item for FashionNova, a site with clothes meant to emphasize and fit women with curves/bbls. They became popular because the Instagram baddie look was in, it started trending with black women(your athlete wags, rapper wags, and early Instagram influencers)and then the kardashians took it to another level(especially considering the surgeries they got to maintain the look). The clothes are made the stretch as much as possible to emphasize how big your chest/ass is. It isn’t really in style anymore because the only people who look good in this style tend to be the ones who were wearing it long before it became popular.
I feel like some iteration of these dresses have existed my whole life. In the 80s, Vanity/Apollonia/Pebbles wore them. In the 90s, slide 2 would have been called an En Vogue dress. You could get them at Deb/Rave/Wet Seal. Then came Fashion Nova and Shein.
Hoochie dresses have always existed [and been in my closet].
Yep, this dress style is not new, the only thing that is usually new is the crowd of people becoming aware of them (and then usually doing some revisionist history to say it started around the time they became aware.)
2016 when it became more fast fashion and everywhere, first started popping up in 2012 (although more basic versions no cutouts), and on trendy sites in 2014.
Tube dresses came in 2014, when a certain aesthetic popped up on tumblr, then spilled over to Instagram in the following years. You'd see them on the street a lot by 2016, but less so by 2021
Tube dresses came in the 70s and became huge in the 80s, but have been a consistent theme throughout the 90s and 2000s. Some people trying to do Y2K revival aesthetics enjoy tube dresses.
Fashion Nova and PLT, as well as the Kardashians, kinda brought them back into style (they were popular in the 90s too, just not exactly like those pictured, they’re more modern 2010s) and ‘Instagram fashion baddies’ popularised them I believe (kinda reminds me of the bandage dress trend also, but that was a little before this, and even in my 30s I still love a good bandage dress lmao don’t judge!), but they could have been around before that, that’s just the first time I saw them properly explode and everyone was wearing them on my feed (back when I followed influencers, which now I don’t lol)
Also, look, I don’t care for the Kardashians either, but if anyone wants to argue that they weren’t a massive influence on a lot of fashion being brought back, or new fashions introduced, in the 2010s would be lying to themselves
People are saying 2010, but I remember ones like these popping up circa 2007, maybe even a little earlier. They were also throwbacks to what people wore in the 80s, though with a more muted look.
If only they were cotton. They're "high quality" if they're cotton. They're usually made of materials for swimsuits. Considering the girl in the 3rd photo is holding an iphone 7 plus and based on my knowledge as a teen back them, my guess is mid 2010s because of bbl bodies as a beauty standard and because of online shopping.
Yeah they’re probably more likely some cheap stretchy poly blend.
Remember, it's popular cuz everyone is broke and a tubesock is cheap to make and sell.
Fashion nova was the start and like 2016
Kardashians
E: Yeah this was a previous style that got brought back and revamped+VERY cheap materials, and no the Kardashians didn’t invent or popularize it but they did make it a staple of their own style and fashion once it was already trending.
Kardashians for sure. They permeated so many spaces of beauty and fashion.
Kardashians just copied black women. The “beauty standards” they propagated were already in full force amongst millions of Americans before they came along.
The Kardashians are culture vultures. Anything that made big, the black community has already been doing it.
U ain’t got to tell me, i agree lol im a black millennial, I remember a world when black beauty was not even recognised in the free market. The kardashians made black beauty a standard, making it palatable for Europeans as the Kardashian’s are Persian so not white, but not black. The lips, the cheekbones, the pulled back slicked back pony, the skintight clothes that show off curves. They’re all found frequently among black women of all shapes, sizes and nationalities.
Correction, Kardashians are not Persian, they are Armenian, many who do have white skin. Also, some Kardashians are half European white.
Actually Kim Kardashian had much paler skin when she was younger.
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I agree about the Kardashian being culture vultures, but for example is what an average woman from Naples looked like in the 90s and I can guarantee you they were not inspired by black culture.
It's very hard to pinpoint the exact inspiration for fashion as every fashion is referencing something else/not original
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Not sure why you would say a trend in 90s Italy was not influenced by American pop culture. People have been taking their cues from black culture worldwide since blues, jazz and rock′n′roll went global. By the 90s, hip-hop was right up there with it, joining its predecessors funk and disco.
ETA you can find lists of hit songs on Italian charts on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_number-one_hits_(Italy)
Look through the 90s - Coolio, Shaggy, Tupac, the Fugees, Bob Marley were all top hits in Italy by mid-decade but even in 90 and 91 you′ve got Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson setting trends. The late 90′s and y2k aesthetic was HUGELY defined by hip-hop′s global explosion. Micro braids and faux cornrows like the above ensued where they had never gone before, lol.
Americans continue making everything about them. These style of dresses have been popular in South America farther back than they were in the U.S.
I think it started after the recession but was in full swing in the early 2010s
Oh yeah I totally had these from Aussie cheap shop Supré in 2009-2010
Yeah, I had a very similar version of the first dress from Supre in 2010
I remember us rationalising “it’s classy see, because even though the skirt is short, the sleeves are long” 😂😭
People saying early 2010s...
Me knowing this was popular in the late 80s.
The only difference is that the big hair is missing. Watch literally any hair metal band music video from 1987-1991 and youll see something very similar in every shot.
I didn’t exist in the 80s and even I know this dress style isn’t new at all. I swear some people’s references for life do not extend before 2010.
Cheap tight dresses have been a thing since the 1960s, but this specific look was not common (if it existed at all) in the 1980s. The fabric would’ve been thicker and less stretchy (in neither case are they remotely cotton), it would’ve had a sweetheart neckline or something, it would’ve had a pattern maybe, etc.
Dresses like this almost flaunt how cheap they are, by being very unadorned and of thin material. It’s a post-Instagram and online shopping thing.
L I T E R A L L Y 80'S S T Y L E S !
if you can’t tell the difference between this and what they were wearing in the 80s it’s not my problem
Right, this is the same stuff Kelly bundy wore
Exactly! Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman made her skin tight, barely there dress famous in 1990, but they were popular starting in the mid 1980s and became mainstream fashion in the early to mid 1990s. Everybody wore them from Madonna to squeaky-clean “good girls” like Kelly on Saved By The Bell, and Donna on Beverly Hills 90210.
Right! Me born in 1977 is thinking "I had a collection of skin tight cotton dresses starting in 1991 during my metal days". It's been a thing. It's a cheap tight cotton dress.
I'm. Ot even from the 80s and know this 😂
Right like was anyone here around in 1989-90? This look was all over MTV
Could be the Shein and Instagram effect. I'm thinking mid 2010s to 2020s.
These cheap dresses are never cotton. A 100% cotton dress wouldnt stretch the way these do, these dresses are usually 75-100% synthetic. These are bodycon dresses and they were mainly the big ticket item for FashionNova, a site with clothes meant to emphasize and fit women with curves/bbls. They became popular because the Instagram baddie look was in, it started trending with black women(your athlete wags, rapper wags, and early Instagram influencers)and then the kardashians took it to another level(especially considering the surgeries they got to maintain the look). The clothes are made the stretch as much as possible to emphasize how big your chest/ass is. It isn’t really in style anymore because the only people who look good in this style tend to be the ones who were wearing it long before it became popular.
those are polyester or some other synthetic, not cotton
Don't disrespect cotton like, that's likely polyester.
I feel like some iteration of these dresses have existed my whole life. In the 80s, Vanity/Apollonia/Pebbles wore them. In the 90s, slide 2 would have been called an En Vogue dress. You could get them at Deb/Rave/Wet Seal. Then came Fashion Nova and Shein.
Hoochie dresses have always existed [and been in my closet].
Yep, this dress style is not new, the only thing that is usually new is the crowd of people becoming aware of them (and then usually doing some revisionist history to say it started around the time they became aware.)
Cotton?
2010s, peak 2010s clothing for insta baddies with bbl bodies.
2016 when it became more fast fashion and everywhere, first started popping up in 2012 (although more basic versions no cutouts), and on trendy sites in 2014.
The white one in slide 3 is pure 2016
Fashion Nova and Instagram around 2014 or 2015.
I remember Walmart had a stunning knockoff version in several colours in late 2013, just in time for Christmas. That dress sold out fast.
All 3 of them are absolutely rocking those dresses, that's all I know.
I would say probably in 2015
When everyone started being broke in the 2010s 🤣
The rise of Fashion Nova
Tube dresses came in 2014, when a certain aesthetic popped up on tumblr, then spilled over to Instagram in the following years. You'd see them on the street a lot by 2016, but less so by 2021
Tube dresses came in the 70s and became huge in the 80s, but have been a consistent theme throughout the 90s and 2000s. Some people trying to do Y2K revival aesthetics enjoy tube dresses.
Yeah
That Was Part Of The REHASH
The first person that comes to mind is SSSniperwolf lol
This was a thing in the ’90s, but came back to popularity after the 2010s.
Became popular in the 80s and have had rises and falls and rises in popularity since.
80S
Idk but I’m not complaining
That's not cotton Lol
Thinking 2018, with influencers before Shein’s rise in 2020
Fashion Nova and PLT, as well as the Kardashians, kinda brought them back into style (they were popular in the 90s too, just not exactly like those pictured, they’re more modern 2010s) and ‘Instagram fashion baddies’ popularised them I believe (kinda reminds me of the bandage dress trend also, but that was a little before this, and even in my 30s I still love a good bandage dress lmao don’t judge!), but they could have been around before that, that’s just the first time I saw them properly explode and everyone was wearing them on my feed (back when I followed influencers, which now I don’t lol)
Also, look, I don’t care for the Kardashians either, but if anyone wants to argue that they weren’t a massive influence on a lot of fashion being brought back, or new fashions introduced, in the 2010s would be lying to themselves
EXACTLY Like That
And Before The 90S
MANY CHICKS & Strippers Wore The Right One ! ! ! ! ! !
LOL !
2010
2010’s cheap fast fashion:
Charlotte Russe or Forever 21. The sleek cheap look was more Forever 21. The brightly colored office/club clothes was more CR.
BBL fashion
These gained popularity with the American Apparel era around 2010. Then it trickled down from hipsters hitting the clurb to the Kardashians.
Circa 2015
Kelly bundy in the 90s
Kardashians and they're predominantly synthetic materials like polyester
People saying 2010s this was MySpace and ugg boots
they are never cotton
I'd say the Britney Spear's era. Too early?
Hooker wear
2014-2015
I like those dresses and the cut of them. I'd say mid to late 2010s.
People are saying 2010, but I remember ones like these popping up circa 2007, maybe even a little earlier. They were also throwbacks to what people wore in the 80s, though with a more muted look.
Kim kardashian, I’d say somewhere around 2020.
Gtfo
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