How many tops are you wearing right now? If you think that's a trick question, you clearly haven't been paying attention on TikTok, where the early '00s trend for layering your tops, one on top of the other, is currently topping the algorithm charts. Don't believe us? Just ask Kim Kardashian, who's staged her own throwback at Paris Fashion Week, posing in her hotel room wearing not one, not two but what potentially could be five tops, from long-sleeved styles to ribbon-trimmed camis. That's a lot of tops.
The Disney tweens of Y2K - Ashley Tisdale and Vanessa Hudgens - were among the first celebrities to wear layered vests on the red carpet. At the premiere for Son of the Mask, Tisdale wore three, in turquoise, hot pink and purple, with her boot-leg jeans and ballet pumps.
Hudgens, meanwhile, wore her capped-sleeved slogan tee over a white cotton tank, again with boot-cut jeans that were all the rage circa 2002. Compared to say low-rise waistbands, boob tubes and peep-toe platform sandals, you might consider layering your tops as positively innocuous - and you'd be right, especially as the shops nowadays, no doubt combing the internet for retrending items, have made it doubly easy by making 2-in-1 tops.
That's right, you don't even have to go to the effort of finding one top that fits over the other, thanks to Weekday, Massimo Dutti and Anthropologie, whose pre-layered tees are crying out for a pair of cargo pants. Go on, you know you want to.
Shop: The Best Layered Tops
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Natalie Hammond is Grazia’s Senior Fashion News Editor. She loves winter, hates summer and can often be found writing about the weather (and what on earth to wear).