What's with the leggings wedgie look?

[dancingmarshmallow]

I hope I'm not being rude and perhaps I'm showing my age, but what is it with people wearing leggings the are wedged right into their butt crack? It seems like this is the current trend but it seems so vulgar 🙈

Even if it was those things it's not new. In the 90s having thongs showing out of your trousers was a thing.

In the 60s, even if quite slim, we were expected to wear elastic girdles, which had the effect of smoothing out the bum line into 1 solid curve instead of 2 separate buttocks. I was going out one night in a Jersey midi dress, and my mother was appalled, as she said she could see the shape of my bum😱Things change, we are probably going to swing the other way, back into prudish Victorian mode soon.

Ugh - it's just so grim. When you look at the so-called role models for young women now though it's not surprising. I was looking at the photos of the Kardashians on the way to Kourtney's wedding the other day. If I didn't know who they were, I'd think they were a bunch of porn actresses or hookers. And that's what a lot of young women aspire to

mycatisannoying
I'm glad my teenage daughters don't dress for the male gaze. Thankfully they prefer oversized clothing.

This post has really annoyed me. It sounds very self congratulatory. Although of course not necessarily the case, it’s entirely possible that the teenage daughters in question are ashamed of their bodies and feel the need to cover up. Wearing oversized clothing is not necessarily something to be proud of.

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I agree ... The way I dressed for a night out in my twenties would make some posters hair curl. If I'm honest, at the time I did it partly because yes I was on the pull. But also because it was comfortable to dance in and my girlfriends and I enjoyed the process of dressing up in our glad rags ... all meet at one house, music on and singing away while getting ready. And I absolutely had the figure for it back then.

My 40+ feminist self rolls my eyes at the memory now but every generation has their. equivalent fashions. Im not going to judge a girl or woman on what they wear.

Tbh this comment is really shit "she looked absolutely awful, especially as she wasn't exactly skinny" since when did being skinny=looking good?

So rude. I know lesbians who wear these leggings, they are categorically NOT dressing for the male gaze. I also know teenagers who wear oversized clothing because they have a negative body image. What you have said is ignorant and dangerous. Women aren’t even allowed to dress how they want now without being accused of doing it for male attention…

It's awkward, and i don't know where to look, but i get that they're young and are don't what young people do to mate. I remember thinking everything in the world was sexual in some way when i was young. Hormones are a crazy thing. They're showing their wares.

Thankfully they prefer oversized clothing.

So do I... But then, I want to hide my body because I'm not confident in it.

It's not black and white.

God, you all sound miserable and old.

Frankly I would rather be miserable and old than wear something so hideous.

I read this and realised that you're completely right and teenagers don't care at all what mumsnetters think about their leggings because they have exams and sex and parties to think about. When did we get old?!

Eh they're comfy, they wash and dry quickly and imo they look better than any of the hideous Boden clothing that makes everyone look like they work for cbeebies

You do realise that other people may think what you wear is hideous?

Have fun being miserable

I saw a girl the other day in a beige pair, I could see the outline of her privates, both front and back. Not a nice look.

I just wish I had the figure, got it, flaunt it.

Very feminine clothing, you'll not catch a transwoman in them😜

Men have had some equally dodgy fashions, remember when they all wore the Calvin kline underwear with the waist band showing above their jeans.

Its obviously done to be looked at. I have a bum so come look.

they can’t be doing it fo zero other reasons

It's called fashion, if you're at an age that it looks rediculous you are your mum, if not you will look back and kind of cringe in years to come, this is 'powerful' women pushing this trend via insta, social media, men aren't involved anymore in this equation when social media is what drives a lot of fashion that it isn't localised anymore but global, the us didn't really take on the rave scene pf the uk in the late 80's/90's, now fashion is globalised.

You finding it vulgar is as you said a generational thing, it is just more globalised now

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They're famed for emphasising the shape of other things😬
There's a lot of jokes online about them

From some of the comments on here I think the 'male gaze' (horrible expression) is the least of the legging wearers worries

It really is so misogynistic. I find it so depressing that women trot out this crap about other women. Let people wear what they like, now there’s a radical thought.

I have not read the whole thread so apologies if someone has said this already.

My take on the leggings up your bum /ultra schulpted look is that it is (except in the case of genuinely fit female exercisers) a bastardization of the keep fit/lycra as leisure wear trend, which trend is fine if you really are fit and toned but invariably as has ever been the case with fashion, is also adopted by the very much not physically fit with the worst possible outcomes/consequences.

I agree with a previous poster who said back in the day it was the "thing" to have nice (or rather - large) breasts.

Now it is the fashion to have a "large" bottom - which if done correctly means toned glutes, even though those who wear this type of shapewear actually just have a big arse (as it "I have eaten too much").

It is interesting tho, that the focus of on the body part has moved from something where there genuinely are no muscles, i.e. breasts (I never bought into the "i-must-i-must-increase-my-bust" type exercises, and failing that your options were either a boob job or a lifetime of wonderbra wearing) to a part where, in theory, if you work out enough (squats etc) you can actually change the shape/outline of your bottom because there are muscles in there.

Having a toned bum has been desirable for at least 25 years. I remember reading in a mag that walking up stairs 2 at a time toned your bum. It the time my desk was in the attic rooms of a converted Victorian townhouse, with no lift. I walked those many stairs two at a time 😂