Tank Tops

by smitikumar

Tank tops are part of almost everyone’s fashion vocabulary. Fascinating name too. Though until about a day ago I realised that all that I presumed to know about tank tops was false!! I had thought of putting in a little post about the origins of the word only to realise that the kind of top I have insisted on calling a tank since school is actually a crop top.
A tank top is a sleeveless, collarless, broad necked top worn by men and women. It gets its name from the top half of the kind of swim suits people wore in the US in the 1920s. These outfits were called tank suits because you wore them and swam in a tank.

Leonardo Dicaprio in a tank suit in The Great Gatsby. The movie like the book is set in 1922 America.