Regardless of its trendy roots among the many Kar-Jenners and Co., the development may be traced again to the Fifties, beginning off as a type of dancewear, and lasting via the mod period. Many dancers wore leotards over their tights in an effort to create an elongated, extra elegant line. However typically, they’d layer with shirts or sweaters, oftentimes belted to assist make clear their waistlines. “Cyd Charisse and a number of the Previous Hollywood vixens and ingenue used to bop in issues like that,” says picture architect Regulation Roach. The look has turn out to be notably related to Edie Sedgwick, the socialite and Andy Warhol muse. In a single particularly memorable {photograph}, Sedgwick balances on a leather-based rhinoceros, her black stocking-clad leg prolonged into an arabesque, a T-shirt protecting her leotard, save for the underside. 

The look picked again up—once more in an train capability—within the Nineteen Eighties with the aerobics craze. Between Jane Fonda’s exercise put on and Jamie Lee Curtis’s electrical chemistry with John Travolta in 1985’s Good, high-cut leotards with belts had been all the trend within the athletic scene. Within the ’90s, the no-pants look appeared a number of instances on the Chanel runway, in addition to Alexander McQueen and Jean Paul Gaultier. And thru the early aughts, Christian Dior and Miu Miu took up the mantle as nicely. 

However the pantless development didn’t transfer away from the athletic associations till pretty just lately. In 2022, Kendall Jenner stepped out in a glance from Bottega Veneta’s spring 2023 assortment—a navy blue knit sweater with white cuffs, black briefs over sheer black tights, and a pair of black slingback heels. Bottega wasn’t the one one to ship the look down the runway: Valentino couture, Victoria Beckham, and Raf Simons all employed pantlessness of their collections. For fall 2023, Maison Margiela and LaQuan Smith manufactured such kinds, as did Miu Miu, who made a splash with their controversial embellished panties, worn by Emma Corrin, amongst others. (The actor and vogue plate shortly adopted the development, carrying Miu Miu’s take to the Venice Movie Competition in addition to to the premiere of My Policeman.)

Since then, the development has solely gained extra followers. Adwoa Aboah, Cara Delevingne, and Jodie Turner-Smith all took the search for a spin at Vogue World: London in September 2023. Lori Harvey broke out the lingerie for a celebration, whereas Regulation Roach wore Calvin Klein briefs over fishnet tights together with his Luar take a look at the CFDA Awards. Even Taylor Swift provided her tackle the pantless look.