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A. These days wearing shirts or T-shirts inside out is no longer fashionable.
B. Wearing shirts or T-shirts back to front is very in these days.

- Are these sentences grammatical and natural?

Thanks very much to Teachers and members.
 
Sentence A sounds fine to me.

In sentence B, the phrase “very in” is unnatural to me. You can remove the “very” and just say “wearing T-shirts back to front is in these days”, but that sentence could be confusing because people may not realize that “in” is short for “in fashion”. I think it is better to say:

“…wearing T-shirts back to front is very fashionable these days”
“…wearing T-shirts back to front is in fashion these days”
 
A. These days wearing shirts or T-shirts inside out is no longer fashionable.
B. Wearing shirts or T-shirts back to front is very in these days.

I expect you know that back-to-front and inside-out mean different things.

Rover
 
I expect you know that back-to-front and inside-out mean different things.

Rover
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If the label's on the inside but under your chin, the T-shirt is ...:?:
If the label's on the outside, the T-shirt is ...:?:

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In sentence B, the phrase “very in” is unnatural to me. You can remove the “very” and just say “wearing T-shirts back to front is in these days”, but that sentence could be confusing because people may not realize that “in” is short for “in fashion”. I think it is better to say:

I think that most young people would understand 'very in'. Like Munch, I am not happy with the expression, but I can't agree that it's confusing.

The idea that in is short for in fashion is so out, Munch.;-)
 
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