6/13/2023 0 Comments Tramp stamp![]() And just this past month, Collina Strada showed belts inspired by lower-back tattoos for its spring 2022 collection. “ Time to Get a Tramp Stamp,” read a Jezebel headline in April of 2020. Earlier this year, Paloma Wool released a capsule collection that was an ode to lower-back tattoos of the ’90s. By 2013, Nicole Richie had gotten her lower-back tattoo removed, saying, “It just means a certain thing, and I don’t want to be part of that group.”īut now, after a year and a half of a pandemic, the tramp stamp is being welcomed back with open arms, it seems, along with Y2K style in general. Inevitably, the Y2K aesthetic fell out of favor - not to mention the word “tramp,” which is steeped in misogyny - and the pendulum eventually swung toward a more minimalist, more covered-up style. But the “tramp stamp,” specifically, became a thing in the late ’90s and early 2000s, when the era’s biggest celebrities - Britney Spears, Aaliyah, Nicole Richie, Lindsay Lohan - all started getting tattoos of butterflies and crosses and such on their lower backs, and flaunting them with fashions of the day like crop tops and low-rise jeans. Men and women have been tattooing their lower backs in one way or another since forever. “But then, probably around 2011, they just stopped.” “When I first started tattooing around 2005, they were quite common,” recalls Pratt-Fusari. Women in particular, he said, are coming in and asking for so-called “tramp stamps” again - more than they have in about a decade. Pratt-Fusari, a tattoo artist at Sacred Tattoo on Broadway, has noticed a resurgence in lower-back tattoos. On TikTok, influencers have embraced lower back ink, with one video amassing more than 3.8 million views since it was posted in October.In the last year, Austin C. “I lean more toward that since I grew up seeing my mom dressed a certain way so I love everything Y2K,” Fitoussi added. I think it’s so cute,” Carisa Fitoussi, a Toronto-based tattoo artist, told Yahoo. I’ve always loved them, regardless of the stereotype behind them. “In the last two, three years, a lot of people have been getting them. According to Gen Z, tramp stamps are back. However - unlike the original implications - this time around tattoos are seen as more empowering rather than embarrassing. Lower back tattoos became popular in Western culture in the late 1990s and early 2000s by young, female celebrities including Britney Spears, Aaliyah, Nicole Richie and Lindsay Lohan, who flaunted their lower back ink.Ī 2011 study found that the body artwork, referred to as “tramp stamps,” became unfairly associated with promiscuity. While a lower-back tattoo - or a “tramp stamp,” as they are colloquially named - has been synonymous with a somewhat trashier lifestyle of the naughts, Gen Z’s love of the early 1990s has seen them making a comeback. If you thought the resurgence of Y2K fashion was going to be limited to thinner eyebrows and lower jeans, then think again - some trends may be a little more permanent. My wife and I have 91 tattoos and piercings - haters say we’re ‘from hell’ ![]() ![]() Grandma has hilarious reaction to grandkid’s ‘horrible’ tattoo I’m a tattoo artist – I let my 9-year-old daughter practice on me and she’s ‘surprisingly’ good I’m going bald - so I got bangs tattooed on my forehead
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