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It was confirmed within the first half of the first official day of Fashion Week: Crop tops will be big again next spring. Early shows such as Richard Chai, BCBG, and Veronica Beard all trotted out some version of le crop. Even though these few are hardly the weathervane of American fashion, there are three of them and according to fashion math: Trend.
This new generation of half-shirts is split between more office-appropriate offerings (as in, no actual skin shows) and essentially belly-button peep-holes (which is fine because that stuff needs to breath sometimes, you know?). More are sure to come, so brace and practice the art of sucking in.
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