To think scrunch bum leggings look fucking shit

@Boomboom22 - they are padded arse pants. Eventually I suspect we will move to arsekini when summer comes

So they don't even show off your real bum? Like fake nails and eyelashes then. 🙄

They are padded to fuck and gathered to make it look even deeper. The ruching is going between the pads.

Ah x-post with @JFT

Hold on - these are definitely going up inside the crack?

Jumping in here to say I’ve seen many iterations of these things and the ones the youngsters are wearing this last few years are definitely elasticated deliberately down the bum crack so as to pull the fabric deep into the crack. Some of them look incredibly uncomfortable and I don’t think they even wear g-strings under them.

They don’t look padded to me, altho I believe you that there may well be some that are. They also cut into the groin and make a horrible camel toe.

There’s been padded panties on Dalston Market stall since many decades as a large backside is attractive to many people but those ones you wear under clothing to look natural.

yes, they aren’t fashion - just a horrible trend.

It's ruching and sometimes padding. It creates false depth along the outer part of the seam where it's gathered. Go have a look at a pair, you'll see what I mean.

I agree they look absolutely ridiculous but they don't go up your bum. The shape would never hold if they did. If you're really curious, and it's clear a lot of posters are, give yourself a wedgie and check out how it looks, especially as you move. It's completely different.

They're also not the collapse of society. They're just the latest ugly trend that we'll all be laughing at in ten years' time. Did you know those stupid trousers with Juicy written across the arse are still in? I had no idea, but I saw some girls wearing them the other day.

I was just going to add to my previous post a few back that it is def a class divide and also where I live altho a v wealthy area it’s possible the young(ish) women are legit sex workers who live here or coming to the area deliberately on the prowl at least. My area used to be a red light district now gentrified but we also get high traffic tourists as well as general show offs who are maybe hoping a model agency or porn producer is gonna approach them, who knows.

I only have one word: thrush !!

A pp said they don't go up your arse, so are they all padding with a fake crease on the outside and not their bum at all? As how could you see a defined crack going in an inch at least if they don't go between the cheeks? Doesn't make any sense.

It makes perfect sense and it's not a difficult concept. They are smooth and normal on the inside, and on the outside there's ruching, and sometimes padding, on the seam to give it that exaggerated bum effect. Ruching and padding create false depth; that's literally the aesthetic.

I'm surprised that this flummoxes someone who claims to be so proud of using one's brain.

😂

Haha, there is a class divide for sure. It's not all teenagers by any means. In my grammar school noone would be seen dead wearing these, highly fashionable kids no dress code, they wear normal leggings and joggers. The FE college on the other hand, maybe 70% wear them.
Possibly linked to thinking your body and male attention are more important, versus your brain.
A pp said they don't go up your arse, so are they all padding with a fake crease on the outside and not their bum at all? As how could you see a defined crack going in an inch at least if they don't go between the cheeks? Doesn't make any sense.
Also they don't look good on anyone they look like the person wearing them thinks of themselves only as a sexual object surely, which generally is not a good thing. The type to have bleach blonde hair push up bra and fake eyelashes, ie doesn't like what they really look like / has very low self esteem.

Bleugh. Suitable only for attention seekers and sex workers..😗

I have just returned from the Gym and an exercise class in Brixton, territory of the hip and cool of S London, and can report that not one person was wearing these travesties of taste. I have never seen anyone in that gym wearing them.

i don’t think they are that popular in S London. The “fashion girls” don’t wear them.

Cat anus leggings

I have just returned from the Gym and an exercise class in Brixton, territory of the hip and cool of S London, and can report that not one person was wearing these travesties of taste. I have never seen anyone in that gym wearing them.

A few young women wearing them round the streets in my less fashionable area.

I wish you'd enabled voting, OP!

Yes, yes, a million times yes - they are absolutely repulsive and if they weren't so vile, they'd be hilarious. It's not just the look - it's the thought of where that seam goes and what it does.

IMO these scrunch bum leggings are repulsive. I've seen a lot of them ever since lockdown when they first became fashionable.

I live in 'fashionable' a high density inner city area and notice everyone from joggers who are legit exercising to young women just hanging or cyclists, or roaming in the high street wearing them. Notable the actual art students and fashion students are not wearing anything of the sort.

As much as I find them ugly as heck and also feel a bit violated having to unexpectedly look at someone's bum crack and / or labia in detail when I'm minding my own business, the thing that strikes me the most is that anyone is brave enough to wear them! I'm in shock and awe at their confidence and boldness mainly.

Recently I was sitting chatting with a friend on a bench in a very public busy inner city area. A woman walking her dog loitered in front of us for ages in a pair of skin tight shiny satin scrunchy bum shorts. As the dog was sniffing about the edge of our bench her genital area was right up close and personal in our eyeline, I was so shocked to see every aspect of her front and rear parts, she might have well just been naked, every contour and crease, it wasn't so much 'camel toe' as totally graphic.

I'm very used to seeing naked strangers as I do a lot of life drawing but it seemed so extreme and in public, hardly be surprised if she was on the receiving end of all sorts of unwanted attention, I felt like she forced herself on us in fact and it seemed a bit grubby and violating to us. But I was thinking well... how brave! really...

There's nothing wrong in wanting to be seen as sexually attractive to other people, but there's something wrong when this is the primary consideration, irrespective of circumstances. When a woman is doing the school run, or exercising or shopping in Tesco, and especially in the workplace, those are not the appropriate times to be presenting herself in a highly sexualised fashion.
I want the men I come into contact with in daily life to see me as competent, to be listening to what I say, interacting with me as an equal human being - I wouldn't want them to be thinking about shagging me or focusing on my arse, while I'm trying to have a professional conversation.

People have lost the notion of appropriate time and place for certain clothes and behaviour. Although tbh, I'm not convinced there is any appropriate time to wear those leggings.

That wasn't the point the original poster made. It was a female v male thing.

I don't consider myself a pearl clutcher, but when a garment is so obviously designed to elicit sexual desire it's not prudish to question the appropriateness of such, especially in the gym, school run or Tesco! There's a time and a place FFS!
And are we seriously still questioning that the patriarchy exists?

Cultural history of the buttocks

I don't think that mainstream male fashion can be extrapolated from what leathermen wear to Pride.

Ruching is a fashion crime anyway. These pants just make it really clear that ruching accentuates and doesn't distract the eye at all.

That's usually pride parades and yes indeed they are drawing attention to their arse for other homosexuals.

But you can see two distinct halves, it’s got to be going somewhere.