13. Christina Aguilera’s “Shirt” and “Skirt”
When Christina Aguilera first surfaced on an already-packed female pop music scene in late 1999, she was fresh-faced and innocent, only showing off slivers of skin in a crop top. Even her music, while trying to be seductive, just came across as cute. As the years rolled by, she wanted to shed that image entirely, wearing lingerie with the likes of Pink, Mya, and Little Kim when they covered “Lady Marmalade” in 2001 and then releasing an album called Stripped in 2002. Although the title was supposed to represent rebirth, considering that Aguilera went from Christina to Xtina and started wearing as little clothing as possible, we’re not so sure.
Just take a look at the getup that she donned at the 2002 VMAs. Often topping plenty of worst-dressed lists, you can’t deny that when Xtina showed up on the MTV red carpet in little more than a scarf for a shirt and a strip of denim for a mini skirt that jaws had to be collected from the floor. With her dyed dreadlocks, black patent leather heeled boots, and overly obvious spray tan, while we all sometimes wish that we could forget this outfit, the media is just never going to let us. In that case, we might as well celebrate it a little.
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