Dare to bare: The new sexy and skin-baring looks

If there’s one thing this pandemic has given us, it’s a desire to rid ourselves of the memory of restrictions and shed our sweatpants in favor of sexy dressing. How the pendulum has swung. Only a year ago, loungewear dressing catered to our need for comfort in the confines of lockdowns, yet now there’s an inherent need for human touch that surfaces with skin-baring looks. Due to the touch crisis and being deprived of seeing people in person - let alone touching them - we’ve segued to 2021’s “hot vax summer” or Summer of Love. This is the first time in a while that we saw consumers seriously show off skin, and the emotional reasoning behind it has lasting power well into 2022 and beyond.