to think leggings on their own is ridiculous

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

I saw a woman getting in her car with a t-shirt on and her pink pants showing through woolly grey tights. It still shames me that I didn't stop her.

I was just wondering yesterday why some people would wear beige tight trousers, they show off all lumps and bumps and also look like they've forgotten their trousers. This tight trouser fashion is just not good!
I wear black leggings under long tunics and they look fine, you can get really thick ones from Gok range in Sainsburys but they are boiling!

Leggings are horrible IMO. Useful for the gym or for little kids though.

Personally, I do think they are really un flattering when worn with a short top- bum and camel toe needs to be covered to look good. I did see a girl who had a very thin pair, a short top and her bum appeared to be eating her leggings- just not very attractive- yet if she had a longer tunic, she would have looked lovely. Yes, people can wear what they want- but why wear something which makes you look bigger/wobblier... a long top is a simple solution.

I don't mind them, I'm envious of those slim enough to wear them with a short top.

It was rather embarrassing when a 20ish woman walked past the other day wearing pale peachy ones and DD (2.9) shouted 'Mummy! Rooody noodie!' and pointed TBF, I had to do a double take, she did look naked!

except, not excess. don't know where that came from

Yes, leggings and ski pants were more or less the same thing, excess ski pants had that little stirrup thing. The reasonably young ans svelte could get away with ski pants and a shortish top but they didn't cling to your front bottom - they were more like trousers.

These ones sold as leggings now are really not much more than footless tights.

Startail is right. In the 80s they were like trousers, much thicker, less stretchy, and there were ski pants too. Remember those?

I like to wear leggings and role them down, as I have a massive scar across my stomach. Having anything tight against that area is very unpleasant indeed. I wear long tops and stuff that covers my arse. My arse has succumbed to gravity these days, so I'd rather keep it hidden anyway.

Hareem pants don't get me started on them, look like an oversized nappy

I like them under stuff, it looks great, but you really do need to cover your arse fully. Even if your arse is nice, you still need to cover it. Would you go out in just tights with no skirt or trousers? No. you wouldn't. Except that, hang on.....that's exactly what you are doing.

I do try and wear a long jumper, top or coat over them. They are so comfy though, especially when jeans dig into my muffin top

Can I steal it FellatioNelson? Still very amused by the work clopper.

Eh? Leggings are a bit thicker than tights, no? The ones I had in the 90s were. Surely if you can see someone's knickers they are not really leggings?

I learnt it off Mumsnet.

Oh dear better put my leggings away then . Some of the cheaper leggings are so thin, but next do some in decent thickness

I personally give a shit. And again I find it pathetic that so many people do.

Clopper. Never heard it called that before.

It looks grim. If you don't care about looking grim then fine, but I don't want to see your arse cheeks and your clopper in such scary detail thanks!

Is it such a big mystery, knicker-wearing? who cares!

I know what you mean by the 'hoof'. I don't understand it, because I make a real point of not having the hoof and it's the sort of thing I would definitely check before leaving the house. I'm too old to wear leggings and a short top anyway.

What people wear is up to them, but I'm curious, do they actually know that everyone can see their knickers?

I cannot stand seeing people wearing leggings like trousers. Especially as they are usually really thin fabric and you can completely see their knickers through them. They just look like tights and the woman ends up looking like a bit of a nutter.

Utterly revolting, ridiculous, nasty, tacky etc, etc.

Topshop do thick ones (silly prices though, £18) and I wear mine with plain "oversized tops" (more ridiculous prices) or heavy jumpers and Docs. They're easy, warm, comfortable.

I think they flatter people most of the time, they're just like a second skin, but other people seem to have such a huge problem with the leggings as trousers thing that I don't do it myself.

I don't give a rats behind if a person has a whole load of extra weight or an arse as tight as the back of a fiat 500, I just hate walking behind someone on the steps when exiting the crowded tube station to find the persons arse stuck in my face with little left to the imagination. Leggings are thin enough and tight enough to almost be an undergarment IMO. All I see is your naked arse and the outline of your vaj if you wear them without something over the crotch area.

I may sound like a perv but that's what I see. Its great if you want to attract a partner I suppose, but very off putting for me. And I am in my 20's and could wear them that way if I wanted but choose to wear something over them for that very reason.

it is ok to excercise in the gym/home