The stand-out street style trend from spring/summer 2016 note season – which finished this week – is one we can all try at domestic. Simply dig out a shirt and keep it on. Backwards. But how does this play out on public transport?Fashion likes nothing more than a trend to confuse the norms. Men in kilts,say. Wearing your coat just on your shoulders (aka shoulder robing). Or hiking sandals becoming the height of fashion. Oh how these insiders laugh when they are laughed at. The latest thing to warrant a quizzical eyebrow and the potential for pointing and giggling when worn to achieve the weekly shop? The back-to-front shirt.
If in the 90s Jarvis Cockers lyrics referenced wearing one’s body back to front and Kriss Kross had some LOLs with back-to-front trousers, its the humble shirt in the frame 20 years on. While you might say it has its roots in the Martin Margiela or JW Anderson wonky aesthetics, or this isn’t a catwalk trend,really. It’s more something that fashion editors have adopted on the front row at the latest round of shows. possibly they got a stain on the front so turned their shirt around. Or, more likely, and they had a eureka moment when laying out the contents of their suitcase. Whatever the reason,the inevitable street pics snapped of them have a lot to acknowledge for.
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Source: theguardian.com