A millennial weighs in on spring's midriff-baring silhouettes and our ever-evolving relationship with our abs
, where crisp Oxford shirts were sliced along the upper rib cage, leaving a raw hem dangling toward hip-hugging micro miniskirts.Saint Laurent Spring 2022. Photo: Gorunway.com, fueled by predictable laws of fashion nostalgia: What was old is new again, especially to a crop of designers who came of age when Britney, Christina, Lindsay, and Mischa sold the fantasy of washboard abs and a singular, candy-colored vision of the world.
“Discipline is liberation,” Jane Fonda—the original “fitfluencer”—told her legions of followers. An endless supply of home videos promising “abs of steel” confirmed the idea that chiseled was the only acceptable form the female body could take, layering on “another set of expectations,” says Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Ph.D., a historian of fitness culture at The New School in Manhattan. “Women had to be really careful about dietbuild muscle,” Petrzela says.
, a progressive Los Angeles–based health company that focuses on helping women and mothers develop strong pelvic-floor muscles. “It’s the body’s powerhouse,” Clampett continues, and yet when many people hear the wordthey just think about the abs—the superficial rectus abdominis, the so-called six-pack that Britney Spears famously achieved by doing upwards of a thousand crunches a day back in 2001.
“You have a choice now,” adds Katie Sturino, author, body-acceptance influencer, and Megababe founder. She is quick to point out that 20 years ago, when millennials were abs-out en masse, fashion was more monolithic. Not so today. “I don’t know about you, but I didn’t feel like I had a choice back then.”
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