The
truth about the crop top movement is that it has existed since the
1970s. The cropped shirt was originally created by men for men and was
part of men's fashion for years before women began wearing them. It
started in the early 70s with weight lifters cutting off the bottom of
their shirts to gets around GYM dress codes that banned shirtless men.
Crop tops soon spread to other athletic pursuits such track and field,
cross country running, and amateur football. In the late 70s crop tops
had become common in disco dance clubs and with urban counter culture
movements. The golden age of the boys crop top was the 1980s when name
brand clothing retailers such as Nike marketed cropped t-shirts and
sports jerseys to teens and young men. Hollywood movies glorified men in
cropped shirts in films such as Bill & Ted's excellent adventure,
Survival Run, Rocky III, the original Nightmare on Elm Street, Old
Enough, Electric Boogaloo, and Over the Edge. The goal of this blog is
restore the glory days when it was common for guys to wear cropped
shirts.