Summer 2016 is officially over and so too is the season's reigning trend. It's hard to remain fresh in a world of accelerated sales cycles and inundating social media imagery. The off-the-shoulder top that took our collective sartorial predilections by storm has finally worn itself out after what was an impressive, world-sweeping run.

It wasn't long ago that the fashion world celebrated the reemergence of the classic number, fueling the craze for shoulder-exposing styles. As Man Repeller wisely notes (in its own analysis of the trend's end), all you have to do is take a look at images of movie stars from the '50s to appreciate "the original collarbone queens." Readying our own collarbones to take center stage, we witnessed the trend from its propitious beginnings punctuating style blogs to its outright engulfing of retailers' racks. For months we played enthusiastic spectators to serious shoulder-baring in its variety of silhouettes. But alas, like all good things, off-the-shoulder tops too must come to an end.

The head of Instagram's fashion partnerships just declared the trend over in one fell swoop by way of an impeccably timed #OOTD. Eva Chen posted a photo of herself in J.W. Anderson's seersucker-suggesting interpretation, announcing it was "probably the last off the shoulder" she'd wear.

In the wake of the oversaturation of shirts-showing-off-shoulders, one must decide whether to nix the summer staple in favor of new necklines or simply dust off their décolletage and soldier on (with updated iterations just in time for fall).

Keep scrolling to see how Eva Chen mastered the off-the-shoulder top one last time and shop her look below.

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