Who is wearing crop tops

[verycontrary247]

In my daily interactions with people I see almost no one in crop tops, but it feels like the vast majority of the clothes I encounter when shopping is cropped. Cropped shirts, tanks, cardigans, sweaters- even turtlenecks! The existence of cropped turtlenecks implies that they believe people are interested in wearing crop tops in winter and I just don't get it.

Who can appeal to clothing manufacturers to make shirts of a standard length again?

[Bad Dingo]

I like cropped tops with high waisted pants, otherwise you have to tuck a ton of material in. I'm not talking super cropped, just slightly above my natural waist.

[Velar Fricative]

You really see no one with crop tops? I feel like they are everywhere and I'm still the lone weirdo covering my ass with tunics.

ETA: And I mean, every girl/woman of any age is wearing them per my vantage point, except maybe elderly women lol. 

[SusanBAnthony]

I see teenagers with crop tops but not adults.

[Jalapeñomel]

Every teenager I teach.

[gerberdaisy]

I see them everywhere, including lots of moms at drop off. You will also never find me in one, need to cover my stomach as much as possible.

[sonrisa]

Everyone between the ages of 12 and 20 something?

[eddy]

I am short so I love the crop top trend. I hate shirts clinging to my hips so a crop hits perfectly right at my beltline. 

[shauni27]

i do see crops out in the wild but mostly on the youths. I see them at the gym as well, on occasion, on women under 30.

I am annoyed because I need new workout tank tops and in the three stores I went to, not one single tank was full length, they were all cropped.

[janegold]

I wear crop tops all the time, including currently. Mostly in the form of athleisure wear but that's what I wear 90% of the time anyway.

[Patsy Baloney]

The youth.

[mrsukyankee]

I will wear slightly cropped sweaters. I have a high waist so I can get away with high waist trousers and a slightly cropped top (but nothing that uncovers any skin and I tend to wear a tank under it just in case). Otherwise, I see it on uni students regularly (though not as much as in the warmer weather).

[penguingrrl]

I see a lot of people wearing them, and not just under 30s. I can’t wear them, they make me look even shorter and chubbier than I am (and this had held true at my thinnest, my belly always looks big for my size no matter what and my legs are always super thin)I need a shirt that goes down to the bottom of my butt to flatter me both front and back. I haven’t bought new clothes in years because it’s all cropped and looks awful on me.

[stemmie]

I'm a petite with a short waist. The crops work for me with high waisted jeans but they don't expose skin because of my height.

[mcmel]

Someone at my work is wearing one today. Belly completely out lol.

[circa1978]

I don't consider them unusual enough to really notice. I work on a college campus and live in the world so I'm sure I do see them. I have a very long torso for someone my height and DDs anyway, so current shirt lengths are a challenge. Would sign the petition.

ETA: I think this would be an interesting growth opportunity for someone who sells a lot of basics, like GAP or Target. They sell pants in lengths - why not T-shirts?

[loira]

I refuse to pay full price for half a shirt.

[jinkies]

Feb 12, 2024 10:25:44 GMT -5 circa1978 said:

I don't consider them unusual enough to really notice. I work on a college campus and live in the world so I'm sure I do see them. I have a very long torso for someone my height and DDs anyway, so current shirt lengths are a challenge. Would sign the petition.

ETA: I think this would be an interesting growth opportunity for someone who sells a lot of basics, like GAP or Target. They sell pants in lengths - why not T-shirts?

Old Navy does sell tshirts in "tall" lengths!

[circa1978]

jinkies , I have just realized what an idiot I am, lol. I do actually often get the tall length in dresses there. I was thinking of like a table with the same shirt in cropped, average and long lengths but yes, I think I did just invent something that already exists, 😂.

Tangent, tall sizes should be more available. I feel bad buying them when I have legitimately tall female friends who don't have as many options and my 6'4 DH and now nearly 6 foot tall teen share my freakishly long waist and I'm constantly looking at their bellies even in tall sizes, when I can find them. And for men, they are so much more expensive.

ETA: And yes, by mating with another long waisted person, I did create a mutant child. He has an ideal swimmers body but refuses to get in the water now that he's hit puberty.

[TR]

Feb 12, 2024 10:30:09 GMT -5 loira said:

I refuse to pay full price for half a shirt.

lol this is the same energy as the people who talk shit about destroyed denim

[rupertpenny]

I'm short-waisted with bigger hips, and I love slightly cropped tops. Especially sweaters. Normal-legnth sweaters are either too tight at the hips or too big on my torso, and I used to always feel schlubby in sweaters.

[expectantsteelerfan]

My dd. That is all she wears. But then she also usually wears an oversided hoodie over them (she has some cropped hoodies too, but often wears the big long ones more).

I have found myself wearing more shirts that hit at my natural waist when previously I was all about the tunics, but I won't ever bare skin.

[shinyhappy]

Feb 12, 2024 9:48:59 GMT -5 eddy said:

I am short so I love the crop top trend. I hate shirts clinging to my hips so a crop hits perfectly right at my beltline. 

Yep. I actually love them with high waisted pants/shorts. It’s really flattering for my body type (pear)

[starburst604]

I am definitely not one of the people wearing them. My stomach had it's day in the sun, but that time has come and gone!

[sonrisa]

Feb 12, 2024 10:12:22 GMT -5 stemmie said:

I'm a petite with a short waist. The crops work for me with high waisted jeans but they don't expose skin because of my height.

I'm the opposite so every top is a crop top on me. lol. High waisted jeans never reach my belly button. The current trends would show 6+ inches of my midriff and no one needs that. 

[dreamcrisp1]

My coworkers wear crop tops.

[Velar Fricative]

Feb 12, 2024 10:44:10 GMT -5 shinyhappy said:

Feb 12, 2024 9:48:59 GMT -5 eddy said:

I am short so I love the crop top trend. I hate shirts clinging to my hips so a crop hits perfectly right at my beltline. 

Yep. I actually love them with high waisted pants/shorts. It’s really flattering for my body type (pear)

I'm a pear too and I might need to try this now that I think about it some more. It's not like crop tops necessarily mean exposed belly, it just means I need to find flattering Urkel pants so my belly is still covered.

[lilypad1126]

I’m very tall (6 feet) so the crop top trend is a mixed bag. Sucks in that cropped tops are extra short on my. Great in that regular length tops that used to seem too short are now in style 🤣

I look and feel better in shirts that hit at my hips, so I don’t actually like this trend. But the vast majority of women I encounter wear crop tops so it seems I’m in the minority.

[midwestmama]

I see teens and 20-somethings in crop tops, but generally not in demographics older than that.

I am so ready for crop tops to be a thing of the past (again) - I am short-waisted, and with my current weight/body shape, the high-rise jeans and crop tops are just about the worst fashion trends on my body. (Every time I try on high-waisted jeans, I feel like I look like Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum from the old Disney animation of Alice in Wonderland.)

[verycontrary247]

I'm 5'8 with a long torso, so regular length shirts tuck into my high waisted jeans just fine. I accidentally bought a cropped shirt and it just looked comical on me.

My ex-LDS toxic modesty brain is clutching my pearls at the idea of people wearing them at work lol