to not believe anyone wears "scrunch butt" shorts in public in real life

This…my DD wears them in the gym.

She mainly does weights/power lifting so I’d imagine the extra fabric in the scrunches gives a bit more room for manoeuvre.

They really don’t look that obvious in RL!

Saying that, as non-gym wear I’d raise an eyebrow but I don’t particularly like the sportswear aesthetic anyway.

I’ve seen nude/pink ones (long) in the town centre.

Was tempted to clutch pearls and think how frightfully vulgar.

I've seen them, honestly I think the lines on them look like an anus .....

Lots of young women and teens wearing these leggings around London often with angle socks over the top - very 80s Jane Fonda.
Many others including mine wearing bra top with cargos- very 90s. Both equally revealing in their own way.

Personally I prefer both looks to the drippy oversized tracksuit look from a few years ago when everything was unisex.

I’ve seen girls wearing these and I can’t get my head round them wearing them in public, they’re like men’s ballet tights. Put it away luv, I don’t want to see your crack.

I read from this, that they were to stop leggings from stretching too thin and becoming see-through? So the opposite of showing off.

Scrunch shorts are not new, they've been around ages.

Saw in Asda near Portsmouth yesterday 😂

So they're for showing off glutes - doesn't make them any better

Have you not seen many teenagers lately?

I had to explain anus shorts to elderly DM 😁

Exactly. And relaaaaaaaaax 🙏🏻

Scrunch leggings for weight training were designed to make full squatting with a heavy load across your back more comfortable at full squat/stretch.

Proper ones should have extra fabric on the glutes that’s designed to stretch and remain opaque. So many ppl don’t realise their leggings aren’t squat-proof. (I work with a few and when they bend over 🫣)

The scrunch shouldn’t really be between the glutes but more sort of sitting on the coccyx. Proper gym ones usually have a reinforced band that runs down the seam under the scrunch. No chance of seeing an arsehole.

Big (trained) glutes and thicc thighs through weight lifting are desirable.

We'll, I'm in Australia. I see them EVERYWHERE. School pick up, the theme park we were at on Friday, shopping, the park.

They look horrible, but are very popular.

I'm not a fan, but mostly because I only really see them on teenagers and it makes me shudder at all the dirty old men that must be perving on them all day long (assuming that still happens like it did when my peers and I were teenagers).
But remember all the boobs & hips/belly's out of the 90's? Surely better than that?

Meh, wear what you want. But don't they make you feel like you have an atomic wedgie?

Probably, but if I wore them it wouldn't be how my bum looked that would upset people 🤔 It'd be bits visible from the front. The reason why I wear shorts over tight leggings when running in winter. Totally different subject

Most of the younger women at my gym wear some version of these - either as shorts or leggings

I don’t wear them or any “active” wear tbh. However, I don’t care if anyone else wants to wear them. I’m sure some people look at my outfits and think wtf. Some comments on this thread are bordering on misogyny.

Good grief... reading this thread makes me feel like I'm sat in the director's box at the World Professional Pearl Clutching Championships Cup 2ⁿᵈ round qualifiers.

Which has just been hijacked by three coachloads of competitors from the International "Being Judgemental is the Whole of My Personality" Tournament.

Fear not though, as the "I feel entitled to stop and intently stare at some random girls girls pelvic area for long enough that I can get a good ol' look at her anus and vulva then complain about seeing these things, an OHEMGEE ALL MENS IS PERVERTS LOOK AT THEM DARING NO NOTICE THAT WYMENS EXIST!!ONE!ELEVEN!!1" squad are here to save the day! Only instead of CS gas, they're spraying everyone with a mixture of jealousy and envy, making everything worse...

I mean there's nothing wrong with having an opinion or with sharing that opinion, particularly with style/fashion etc. Unless you're gonna start with that "Stevie, it's not 1998 anymore, besides you looked stupid in that Levi's Sta-Pressed stuff even when it was in fashion", because I don't listen to filthy liars..

Seriously though, can't we just accept that fashion and style changes over time (don't start)? Maybe let people wear what they want to, whatever makes them feel good? Or do something wild and crazy like acting as if we're on the same team and building each other up instead of tearing each other down?

To clear up any confusion:
• Yes, white chino's with creases that'd impress the Sa'ant Major DO look good coupled with white trainers, thank you very much.
• No, I am NOT "on my way to boy band rehearsals".
• Yes, I DO have a genuine Levi's branded Flat Eric teddy (I also have two kids though, and he's looking like the years have been just as unkind to him as they have me)
• And yes, my wonderful, beloved (and ludicrously patient - with me at least!) DW does buy my clothes for me.

That is all.

I’ve got some leggings with the scrunch bum, they make your bum look bigger, that’s the point of the scrunch, not to highlight your bum hole, although I see what you mean 😆 the scrunch is supposed to sit a bit higher than where your bum hole is.

I live in a large, studenty UK city, and have never noticed seeing them. After reading this thread, think I must have walked past 100s of pairs without noticing!

No worse than "tit bags" sewn into blouses / dresses, surely? They've been around forever...

I actually think that men would have a much harder time getting away with wearing something equivalent that prominently highlighted their bum(hole) and/or genitals, should they be interested in doing so.

They'd be shouted at and reported as perverts (which, to be fair, they probably are) - by the same people who, if it were a woman, would be calling those noticing her attire the perverts, whilst trumpeting her right to wear whatever she likes, however revealing and unsubtle.

Do you wear pants with them? Or a thong?

I have black leggings in them they are so comfy