Drama Is My Specialty, So I Found 29 Under-$200 Tops That Are Just That
Nothing makes getting dressed easier than a great top. A great top can take all the guesswork out of putting together an outfit. All you need is jeans, trousers, or a skirt, and you're done. A pretty statement top does all the heavy lifting for you. That's why I recently went on a mission to find the best of the bunch to jazz up my summer wardrobe and make my life a little easier for the months ahead.
We've already established that there's nothing better than a pretty top. But a top that's also affordable? That's double the fun. From cool-girl ruffles that amp up every bottom imaginable to the $36 Zara top everyone in theBest Knockoff Luxury Clothing office loves, I present the 29 best dramatic and affordable summer tops (aka unicorns) I've come across. Happy shopping!
While the front of this top serves '90s minimalism, the back is a different story.
Imagine this top with a long maxi skirt and simple black sandals. In my opinion, it would be the ideal vacation outfit.
I know ruffled sleeves aren't everyone's cup of tea, but during the summer it's almost too good to say no.
If you haven't jumped aboard the lurex trend, this top makes it easy to pull off.
The Seinfeld blouse returns! But of course more chic than ever.
Style this with straight-leg jeans and heeled wedges for a winning look.
Yellow is a great color to start with if colorful ensembles are out of your comfort zone.
This entire outfit will be seared into my memory, it's that good.
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Indya Brown is a fashion editor, stylist, and writer living in Los Angeles. While going to school at Columbia University in New York City, she got her feet wet in the fashion industry interning at Elle magazine, Harper's Bazaar, and New York magazine's The Cut. After graduating in 2016, she joined The Cut as a fashion assistant, eventually working her way up to fashion editor. There, she worked on a multitude of projects, including styling inbook feature stories for New York magazine's print issue, writing and pitching market stories for The Cut, and serving as fashion lead for The Cut's branded content. While New York has been her home for over 10 years, she moved to Los Angeles in the midst of the pandemic in 2020 for a new chapter. Now she is a fashion market editor forBest Knockoff Luxury Clothing , focusing on emerging designers, rising trends on and off the internet, interior design, and BIPOC creatives and brands. Aside from her duties as a fashion market editor, Brown is also a freelance stylist and writer, working on national print and video commercial campaigns for Sephora, The Independent, and Cadillac. Her bylines also include Harper's Bazaar, Vox, and The New York Times. But once the computer goes down and the emails turn off, she's likely eating her way through Koreatown, hunting down vintage furniture, scoping out new outrageous nail designs to try, or taking a hot cycling class.
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