The 2000s trends are returning to the runways and streets, including low waist, transparencies, miniskirts, microshorts and the so-called "ballerina body" associated with a more elongated and less voluminous silhouette. Balletcore helped popularize this aesthetic that references the ballerina's body.
This return occurs in a specific context: the moment when the so-called weight loss drugs transformed the debate about weight and body. Transparencies put breasts and lingerie back in evidence, while shorter pieces leave legs and buttocks more exposed.
The relationship between these fashion trends and beauty standards raises an important question: to what extent does clothing merely follow the transformations of these standards and when does it begin to influence the way women see their own bodies. This connection is not direct or the same for everyone.
The repetition of certain images and silhouettes in fashion can reinforce specific beauty standards, especially at a time when there is great discussion about body, thinness and acceptance. Fashion is cyclical, but no style returns exactly to the same context in which it originally emerged.
