to think leggings on their own is ridiculous

lol at the 'Max Wall' look. That brings back memories as my Dad used to say that I looked like him when I wore leggings with Doc Martens (and had sparrow legs).

I agree though that leggings back in the 80s were much thicker and you couldn't see your pants through them unless you bought really cheap ones.

DD was scarred for life recently when she saw a neighbour with leggings and a short waist length top bend over and pick something up as we were walking past -we had a great view of her size 20 floral granny style pants through the leggings!

Hmmm... for myself, no.

For DD1 and 2 (24 and 16) , they look delightful however they wear them.

Lesson may be to teach our children to wear matching underwear under thinner clothes?

DD (6) has very, very long legs and has loads of leggings (partly because normal trousers just look very puffy on her very slim legs). However, DW always intended her to wear them with dresses over the top. This morning she went out with just a top and leggings on and she looked like a runner bean....so slim and the look just made her look like a pencil line!

When women used to wear them in the 1980s wasn't the trend to wear them with Breton tops and the like? They looked okay then IMHO, but this trend to wearing them with very skimpy, short jumpers/tops and a short jacket (which leaves the bottom exposed) is just bleuh

They were definitely much thicker in the old days . I could wear them with a short top and there was no knickers peeking through. I rocked the Max Wall look as well!

They still sell the thick 90's style leggings that I remember my mum used to wear, isn't that what they call tregging's?

I wish she hadn't given them all away to charity now. In fact I wish she hadn't given a lot of stuff away to charity now

The worst leggings I have seen have to be these hareem leggings

I wore leggings with fairly short tops as a teenager in the late 80s and early 90s. They did have Lycra in them but they were also much thicker. Yes, you could see all the bumps, etc but they were not see-through. They were also more expensive - you couldn't buy really cheap ones then.

I think the problem now is that a lot of people buy the really cheap ones, and obviously don't have a mirror.... Quite a few times I have been so tempted to say "do you realise that everyone can see your pants???"

In the 80s leggings didn't have lycra and used to get massive knee shapes in them which didn't look good. I think that no matter how thick the leggings and no matter how perfect the figure , they need the bum covered. There was a mum on the nursery pickup who had a great figure and thick leggings, but her camel toe did not look good. I just don't want to see the exact shape of someone's arse cheeks, no matter how perfect that arse is!

Yes, I lived in ski pants, boots and long baggy (very naff), black and bright coloured jumpers as a student.

I'd completely forgotten we tended to call leggings with stirrups ski pants.

YADNBU. Now that thicker ones that don't show all are becoming popular I'm not minding them as such, it is mainly the really thin ones I dislike. Why do you want the world to see your underwear?! Or lack of it!

Sports shops tend to do some decent, thick and warm leggings and they are very handy for climbing and yoga according to my climbing partner!

I hate leggings, whether with short tops or long ones, so wouldn't wear them myself.
I don't really care if other people wear them though, I'm sure I look ridiculous to many people too

I think they can only be worn with a tunic or long top. Just looks like they haven't got dressed otherwise. But then I don't think leggings and short tops look nice on little girls either.

depends on your arse, and the quality of the leggings

owch at that facebook/gstring/panty liner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do these people know their underwear is visible? I'm sure it's a mistake for some people but is it some kind of fashion statement? Otherwise wouldn't they have realised?

You think leggings are bad - I had to face a woman wearing watch looked like 40 den tights the other day - complete with turquoise knickers - and a cropped top. And YES they were definately tights - ugh!

Yesterday I could see through a young slim woman's leggings to the point where I could see she was wearing white knickers with pink and blue hearts. I don't think it takes a fashionista to know she should have.covered her arse.

"I must confess to smiling when the shorts don't cover the control panel in the tights"

:o Couldn't figure that out for a a minute, I was thinking "control panel" as in computer!

They always used to be thick enough to look like trousers, which was fine. But for the thin ones which look like tights, and are often see-through, YANBU!

Long top - Yes
Short top - No

imo.

YANBU every morning when i drop the dds at school i am confronted with an array of various cheap leggings showing the the wearers knickers, tis a horrid site.

Even the dds are starting to look a bit when they see them.

Buy some thick ones or wear a long top.

YANBU, I have no clue why people do it and I really don't want to see someone's underwear and arse cheeks (and towel with wings it seems in the linked picture!) when I am out and about and I am no prude...

Surely they can't knowingly go out with their under crackers showing? Although surely they must know as they must notice on other people?

I wouldn't have a problem with leggings and short tops so much if the leggings weren't so thin and see through, these are definitely not meant to be worn as a trouser.

To save money buying his own, my husband wore my leggings for his pilates classes with a tee shirt.

It's certainly not a look that would work on me.

It's still shorts and tights as the preferred student attire near us, and I must confess to smiling when the shorts don't cover the control panel in the tights

My leggings aren't like tights. I try to wear long tops but being over 6 ft it's quite a task to find any. People should stop being so ridiculously judgmental.

people where I live actually do wear opaque tights as trousers. I mean 80 denier black tights with a hoody shock

It looks like they do round here too.