Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

To think scrunch bum leggings look fucking shit

487 replies

shockwaze · 25/10/2023 20:35

Even the name is horrendous

OP posts:
New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Thread gallery
18
PotOfViolas · 21/04/2025 12:37

I don't think they look nice on anyone

Lascivious · 21/04/2025 11:34

They look incredible on my 24 year old gym bunny niece. Not so great on older women I see wearing them at my gym.

Maaate · 21/04/2025 11:32

Katemax82 · 17/02/2024 09:29

Ps I'm 41 so should know better, but my husband says they make my arse look great

Show quote history

Which is important when you are cleaning

RatherOutdated · 21/04/2025 11:22

Good god - this is an actual garment! I thought all the young people were giving themselves deliberate wedgies with ordinary pants. It seemed incomprehensible but I didn't like to ask what was going on.

CesareBorgia · 21/04/2025 06:42

Robotalkingrubbish · 21/04/2025 00:30

What’s a BBL?

"Brazilian Butt Lift" - where fat is transferred to your bum from elsewhere in your body to make it bigger and perkier.

Robotalkingrubbish · 21/04/2025 00:30

What’s a BBL?

Lovelylibra07 · 21/04/2025 00:11

Omg they look hideous!! The ones with the “built in booty lift” look the WORST to me! I tried a pair on….and NOOOWAYY could I walk around looking like a had a BBL. Not sure how people who wear those don’t see how hideous they look 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

Trousername · 06/04/2025 18:29

WideLegPant · 25/10/2023 21:46

Can you get ones with eyeballs printed on the buttocks? Surely Wish or somewhere do them? You could have great fun with optical illusions on these...

That's an idea - with a bit of artistry you could make your bum look like a Barn Owl's face. Should scare the fainthearted off!

OhCalmTheFuckDownMargaret · 06/04/2025 16:49

Nude leggings are hideous too

PotOfViolas · 06/04/2025 16:33

CoffeeCantata · 06/04/2025 14:25

People are entitled to wear what they want, within the laws of decency.

And I'm entitled to judge them! Yes, scrunch-bum leggings are vile and, since they're a very, very conscious choice by the wearer, they certainly carry a message to onlookers...and it's a bit of a nauseating one, in my opinion.

Happy to be thought a prude - in fact, I'm Proud to be a Prude.

They're outside the laws of decency

LadyWithLapdog · 06/04/2025 16:31

This is a thread from last year. I’m pleased to see there’s very little of this around anymore, though the nice weather has only just started.

CoffeeCantata · 06/04/2025 14:26

Gettingbysomehow · 06/04/2025 14:21

There are blokes in the gym wearing them too. When they bend over there is literally nothing left to the imagination and yes....I am pearl clutching.

Let's pearl-clutch together! I think history and aesthetics will be on our side in this.

CoffeeCantata · 06/04/2025 14:25

People are entitled to wear what they want, within the laws of decency.

And I'm entitled to judge them! Yes, scrunch-bum leggings are vile and, since they're a very, very conscious choice by the wearer, they certainly carry a message to onlookers...and it's a bit of a nauseating one, in my opinion.

Happy to be thought a prude - in fact, I'm Proud to be a Prude.

Gettingbysomehow · 06/04/2025 14:21

There are blokes in the gym wearing them too. When they bend over there is literally nothing left to the imagination and yes....I am pearl clutching.

Happyspendingthedayinthegarden · 06/04/2025 14:15

theduchessofspork · 25/10/2023 20:40

They always remind me of a middle aged relative saying ‘the ones that go into the great unknown..’ about g strings in the 90s

funny story about G strings. There was a fashion for younger girls to wear them high up on waist with low cut trousers/jeans so that you could see the top of their G string when they sat down. In a café with my mother - she asked me if sanitary belts had come back into fashion - indicating a young girl's G string. I nearly spat my coffee out laughing. 😂

Katemax82 · 06/04/2025 14:11

namechanged221 · 06/04/2025 13:34

Trashy/chavtastic

The sort of women who wear these are usually with a man in a grey adidas tracksuit pushing a buggy and smoking a vape...

My husband kept buying me these last year,...yes ge wears jogging bottoms and vapes! I don't wear them anymore since my daughter said they make my arse a feature, she said "this is literally you.." then pulled her pyjama bottoms down exposing her behind. Not the look I want

namechanged221 · 06/04/2025 13:34

Trashy/chavtastic

The sort of women who wear these are usually with a man in a grey adidas tracksuit pushing a buggy and smoking a vape...

Superduper02 · 19/02/2024 21:46

Weirdly I was thinking about this very thread today and how I might be missing a trick not having a pair of these.... then came to senses!

Original poster
shockwaze · 19/02/2024 18:34

👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼

Nice to see this thread revived.

I haven't changed my opinion one bit!

OP posts:
Newestname002 · 19/02/2024 16:12

SurprisedWithAHorse · 17/02/2024 19:02

There's no way they should give you thrush if you're wearing clean underwear underneath them that isn't a thong or G string.

That was my thinking also. On the rare occasions I wore shapewear now I always had fine cotton blend pants on too... 🌹

2024WasNotInFactMyYear · 17/02/2024 21:56

It may be normal for women to want positive attention, but the lengths required to achieve that attention are growing more and more extreme.
I agree with previous posters that this is likely a side-effect of explicit content becoming increasingly normalised.

Dachshund40 · 17/02/2024 19:52

I bought some leggings online, when they arrived I realised I’d ordered some bum scrunch leggings, gym day came round couldn’t find my regular leggings in the laundry basket so put the bum scrunch leggings on, oh my word, they are so comfy!! Material is nice and thick, so doesn’t thin out when you’re doing your Bulgarian spilt squats. I wear them to the gym and yoga and don’t care what others think as they are the most comfortable gym wear I have had in ages!

HazardLights · 17/02/2024 19:31

SurprisedWithAHorse · 17/02/2024 19:02

There's no way they should give you thrush if you're wearing clean underwear underneath them that isn't a thong or G string.

Oh God, if I wore underwear, then scrunch bum leggings then jeans over the top it would be the perfect recipe for thrush. It’s not about hygiene, it’s about the multiple sweaty close fitting layers.

SurprisedWithAHorse · 17/02/2024 19:08

Restingbitch2 · 17/02/2024 19:06

I’ve heard from two people (one on real life and one on here) that some don’t wear knickers…

Show quote history

Well that's a separate issue. If you wore leggings or tight trousers with no underwear you'd have the same problem.

The only inherent problem with these things is that they're absolutely fugly and ridiculous trends have been aimed at young women since ridiculous trends began. They're just ugly clothes that are already on the way out now; loose joggers seem to be coming in. Perspective.

Restingbitch2 · 17/02/2024 19:06

SurprisedWithAHorse · 17/02/2024 19:02

There's no way they should give you thrush if you're wearing clean underwear underneath them that isn't a thong or G string.

I’ve heard from two people (one on real life and one on here) that some don’t wear knickers…