The Question of the Day comes courtesy of the “New York Times”, which asks: “Why Are Everyone’s Bra Straps Showing These Days?”
If you haven’t noticed, it’s apparently cool again to let your bra straps show, and one expert says it could be Jennifer Aniston’s fault. Sort of.
The idea is that visible bra straps first became a pop culture phenomenon in the 1990s. And now, the ’90s are “in an extended revival”, so EVERYTHING ’90s is back, including the “re-emergence of the bra strap.”
It may not seem like THAT big of a deal now, but prior to the ’90s, it was fairly shocking to intentionally draw attention to a bra, whether that was Madonna’s bullet bras, Gwen Stefani’s black bras under white tank tops, or Jennifer Aniston’s bra straps on “Friends”.
They went away over the past decade or so, but now they’re back, on fashion runways, among celebrities, and even in everyday life.
In addition to the ’90s callback, the “Times” says, “There is something both rebellious about the refusal to hide the bra AND feminine at the same time”, and some believe “we need femininity in this difficult time to lift us up.”
