The infinite appeal of the tank top Uncouth uniform of the everyman or sexiest piece of clothing ever?

The tank top that was discussed the most, in Italy, at the beginning of the year was that of Giovanni Truppi in Sanremo who, answering Amadeus who asked him why he wore it, told how the tank top was his stage uniform since its beginnings. But in reality, off the stage of Sanremo and on the catwalks, many have been seen during the last Milan Fashion Weeks: from those in the luxury version of Prada and Bottega Veneta, to those used as a layering element seen by Gucci and Sunnei, passing through the experimental versions of Diesel, Ambush, MSGM, MM6 Maison Margiela. In times of genderless fashion, normalization of sexyness and (why not) of ravenous institutionalized narcissism, the tank top has become a blank canvas to tell the body and male and female identities under new and richer perspectives by many designers who have from time to time dug the different cultural facets bringing it further and further away from its original existence as a humble underwear garment. 

The thing that surprises most about the cultural story of the "tank top", however, is that if many of the garments born as symbols of countercultures appear very normal today, the tank top has still maintained such a strong connotation that seeing it worn by a Sanremo singer makes it more sensational than Blanco's transparent shirt or the naked torsos of singers like Achille Lauro,  the Maneskin or Rkomi. According to Wilde, to get consideration you have to entertain the public or scandalize them – a bit like Giovanni Truppi's tank top. A biker jacket, a white t-shirt or a hair dye, after all, today no longer scandalize anyone.