USA Legend Crop Top for Women, Flat Seams and Stretch

Legend is a design in the brand's USA print range, and as with the rest of that family the name belongs to the artwork rather than to any statement about origin. It is the clean, hard-edged version of the theme rather than a weathered one.

What a Clean Print Demands

• Sharp edges show every fault. A crisp design has nowhere to hide a soft register, which is why the dye being set into the fiber rather than laid on top matters as much here as on a faded one.
• Flat seams keep lines unbroken. A raised seam crossing a straight edge is visible in a way it never is on a scattered pattern.
• No sewn-in label at the neck or the hem, so nothing lifts the fabric where the print is meant to lie flat.
• Four-way stretch so tension is shared across the body and along it, and straight lines stay straight.

How the Edges Stay Sharp

Sublimation bonds the pigment to the thread, so nothing rests on the surface to lift, crack or blur where two colors meet. That is what keeps a hard-edged design looking deliberate after a season rather than tired.

Where a Clean Graphic Goes

A crisp print sits comfortably with sharp things, which is the opposite of how a deliberately weathered one behaves. Tailored trousers, a clean midi skirt, a structured jacket: the top holds its own beside them instead of softening them. It works just as well the informal way, with denim and a high waist, where the contrast between clean print and worn fabric is the interesting part. As a base layer it disappears entirely, which is a perfectly good use for a top you happen to like. This design is cut in Small only, so read the chart before ordering. Nothing here is occasion-bound; it is an ordinary stretch top carrying a clean graphic, and it goes wherever an unprinted one goes.

Fabric, Sizes and Care

• Fabric: 83% polyester, 17% elastane.
• Stretch: four-way, so the knit gives across the body as well as along it.
• Breathability: a quick-drying knit that moves air rather than holding it.
• Sizes: Small only in this design.
• Print: sublimated artwork from the brand's USA range.
• How to measure: run the tape around the fullest part of the chest.
• Chest measurement: Small 84 to 88 cm.
• Brand: Mememe, a label that describes itself as Ukrainian.
• Finish: flat seams, no elastic bands, no sewn-in labels.
• Care: gentle wash, hand ironing, no dry cleaning.

Before You Order

Does USA mean it was made there? No. USA is what the brand calls this artwork family, nothing more. The label describes itself as Ukrainian, and the manufacturing statement it publishes covers its underwear rather than its tops.

Only one size is cut. What if I am between bands? There is no second band to weigh, so check the chest figure above against your own before ordering rather than after. A cropped hem travels upward when the knit is worked near its limit, which is what a near miss looks like on this shape.