The crossover cuts aren’t just ornamental: Their design gives them a very respectful, sturdy hold on one’s bod. The Verrazzano bridge brings us, naturally, to suspension. Or as Jagaric puts it, “The construction stays put.” The bridge: It’s something both high up and plunging, and something that looks architecturally assured. There are a lot of angular, triangular, and pointy parts of bridge design,” Jagaric answers when I ask what the leggings reminded her of. “I think of New York bridges - the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge,” says Andrea Jagaric, chief design officer for Aerie brands including OFFLINE, the line now synonymous with these crossover leggings, which are distinguished by their particularly high-waisted cut and sharp plummet in the center. How dare one’s waist be forfeited to a hegemony of the straight waistline? Meanwhile, the swoop of the crossover cut seems like one’s shape is not just an afterthought or something to ignore. It doesn’t enhance anything it doesn’t point out anything.” The straight waistband is the cookie-cutter imprint on fitness apparel. “The straight waistband draws your eye to nothing of interest!” says Dr.
The V-notch is a rebuke of the orderly horizontal waistband. When you look at something and there’s the tilt, you’ll be drawn to it. “There is a part of the visual cortex that finds anything tilted, anything not horizontal,” Dr. Susan Weinschenk knew immediately why this waistband snatched so much attention. The V-notch can be subtle the V-notch can be exaggerated.īehavior scientist and design consultant Dr. Sometimes the cross is more deeply acute, and sometimes it’s highlighted with different patterns. Leggings designed with a little surplice dip at their top are now front-billed options from fitness-apparel heavies like Carbon38 and Beyond Yoga. I wore these shorts into transparency, threw them away, and wistfully remembered their agreeable fit as lost to time - until recently, when I noticed all the V-notch leggings had bloomed again, returning from hibernation in high-waisted, severely angled abundance.Īfter turning eyes ( 7 million pairs of them) on TikTok last year, crossover leggings from Aerie became so ferociously popular that they sold out six times, and the waiting list was thousands deep. Like a lot of flattery, I knew there was a little deception, but its deliciousness protected it from too much scrutiny. Mental health would be so much better for these girls.The first time I wore a crossover waistband - on a pair of bike shorts about ten years ago, when bike-shorts options were scarce - I felt absolutely flattered. “That’s why I like Aerie so much - they love everybody for who they are and they don’t retouch anything. “It’s a pretty common thing for middle schoolers to look at themselves and compare themselves to all of these beautiful women on social media - when in reality they don’t look like that,” Schlenker explains. (With the latter, “you’d see these skinny, slender girls no cellulite, no blemishes, no stretch marks.”) She also recognizes that the supposed “realness” of social media can have a detrimental effect on the body image of young women, and appreciates Aerie’s focus on inclusive representation and body positivity. The partnership with Aerie is a long time coming for Schlenker - who grew up buying swimwear from the brand when it was contained to “just the back wall” at the American Eagle in the Mall of Georgia - and recognized the stark difference between the way Aerie chose their models and the portrayal from traditional retailers.
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