Question about those weird asymmetrical hemlines I keep seeing

I was down in the East Village last weekend grabbing coffee, and I swear every third person walking by had a shirt or dress where one side was like 4 inches longer than the other. It wasn't just at a few trendy spots either, I saw it on 10th Street and around Tompkins Square Park. At first I thought maybe people just didn't hem their stuff right, but then I noticed it looked intentional with these sharp diagonal cuts. Some of them had the long part on the left, some on the right, it was all over the place. Is this a specific trend that's been going on for a while, or did a bunch of people just get the same idea at the same time? I'm thinking about trying it on an old t-shirt but I'm not sure how to keep the edge from fraying weird. Has anyone here sewed something like that and had it actually hold up after a few washes?

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lisa_wilson8724d ago

It's just another way clothes are getting more casual and intentional with weird cuts these days.

the_kevin23d ago

Just grab one with a good stretchy waistband and it'll be fine. Learned that the hard way after buying a stiff pair that fit like cardboard.