Trend alert: guys, it’s time to crop those tops and show some skin

With the pandemic dictating what not to wear, Milan’s men’s wear for spring 2022 was a multicoloured burst of much needed fashion fun. If summer bodies are best made in winter, you might want to get those crunches and sit ups in now when Fendi’s crop tops for men in sherbet hues hit our shores.

A big head-turner is their cropped suit and shirt combo, with a tie to boot that called back to the slashed suit photographed by artist Philip Garner in his book the Better Living Catalogue.

Prada took on new gender bending heights with skorts in its signature retro prints, which perfectly mirrored Miucca Prada’s monotone skirt-short hybrids from the spring 2017 womenswear collection, a big favourite for all the Thigh Guy trends. Prada was also all about an exposed midriff with a particular styling choice seeing cropped knit turtlenecks styled over jackets as the perfect layering option for winter.

Crop tops for men are certainly not new and social media users have often dedicated themselves to bringing the trend back with sporty throwbacks. The likes of Will Smith, Adam Sandler and Mario Lopez sporting the jock-friendly trend between scenes have been favourites for many fans and adorers.

Lopez has even shared his own post of the trend, with his son wearing his own tiny version of the returning trend.

While crop tops have made a few appearances for men’s wear in the years well past their peak in the 1990s, it seems the trend is creeping back this year. If you weren’t going gaga for Siya Kolisi sporting his own version with a STATSports GPS tracker, then you can certainly take some inspiration from Dallas Cowboys running back Zeke Elliot who broke the internet with his “half shirt” that the team quickly remade to sell.