Heat Up Your Summer Style With the Halter Top Trend
Nostalgia has made its way into our closets and it’s here to stay with the hottest trend to make a comeback: the halter top.
Y2K fashion is the gift that keeps on giving this summer, as the halter top returns with full force. From the white halter dress sported by Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch as she stood atop a subway grate to Betty Rubble’s signature blue halter dress in The Flintstones, the halter dress' legacy was set even before 2000s-era stars like Paris Hilton adopted the trend.
Coming from the Germanic word meaning “that by which anything is held” the allure of the simple summer top is its seductive revealing back-baring feature that, according to Fashion-A Visual History from Regency & Romance to Retro & Revolution, was created to leave “an uninterrupted area of skin to expose to the sun by day and display by night.” From Bella Hadid's summery look to the revival of the sequin butterfly halter sported by Olivia Rodrigo, see which of your favorite celebrity trendsetters are embracing the halter top.