Butterfly Back Tank Top Blog Posts

In this section you will find fashion blog posts about butterfly back tank tops — sleeveless summer tops whose open or wing-shaped back design gives the style its name. On a plain tank top the interest is all at the front; the butterfly back turns the garment around, with crossed straps, cut-out panels or a printed wing design across the back. This page is the blog post index for the topic on Apparel Search: it collects the butterfly back tank top posts from the fashion blog.

Butterfly Back Tank Top Blog Posts

About Butterfly Back Tank Tops

Two posts sit in this index. Butterfly Printed Tank Top Back, from June 2015, is the print version of the idea: a tank top with a butterfly printed across its back, photographed from behind because the back is the garment. Ashley Greene in Junk Food and Kitsch, from June 2013, is the celebrity version — a casual tank top outfit post where the top is part of a layered summer look. Together they mark the two ways a back-detail top gets covered: as a product, where the construction is the story, and as an outfit, where it is one piece among several.

As a garment, the butterfly back tank is a warm-weather layering piece. The front is a standard scoop or racer front; the back carries straps that cross or split into wing-like panels, which means the top is usually worn over a bandeau, a sports bra or a camisole, or on its own at the beach. Fabrics are light jersey knits — cotton, rayon and blends — because the style belongs to summer, and the printed versions put the artwork where a plain tank has nothing. Readers who want the product guides will find women's, men's and boys' tank top guides, cotton tank tops and the tank top definition and term in the topic block below.

The butterfly back belongs to a family of back-interest tops — racerbacks, keyhole backs, lace backs and strappy backs — that grew as warm-weather dressing became more photographed from every angle. It differs from the racerback, whose straps meet between the shoulder blades for sport, in being decorative rather than athletic: the panels are shaped to be seen. In the tops guides below, tank tops are filed by fabric and wearer as well as by back style, since the back design is a variation on a standard garment rather than a category of its own.