Since when did this become a thing?

[Curiouscat101]

I’ve recently joined a local gym having spent a lot of my adult life trying to avoid the place. Don’t have much social media so didn’t realise the new “trend” is to wear scrunch bum shorts and sports bras

Honestly so many females wearing this in my gym. I felt like the odd one out wearing a black tshirt and some old black leggings.

Ive always done running so in okay shape but I felt out of place in what I was wearing having just started. Maybe I just need to pay less attention to others 😂

I also agree, and I am as critical of inappropriate clothes worn by men as I am by women.

We do not want to see boobs, arses or dangly bits. Keep them covered up (properly).

ugh

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Wear what you like and feel comfortable in. I always try to ignore what everyone else is doing, same goes for where they're at physically, because there will always be fitter, hotter, younger ppl at the gym than you. You do you and don't give a toss what other ppl think of your gym attire.

OMG so ugly. Arevl these women blind? Can't they see how stupid they look. You keep on with your leggings and t-shirt.

Put it this way, I don't think it's a coincidence that this particular clothing item is fashionable given the huge preponderance of anal sex in straight pornography.
I hadn't made that link but you make a really good observation.

Wow, so much vitriol directed at women who choose to wear scrunch bum leggings!
‘Can’t they see how stupid they look’
I would like to ask - Can’t you see how bitter you look with comments like that.
I think some of you need to ask yourselves why a another women’s clothing choice triggers you so badly?
Whatever happened to being kind and building each other up instead of tearing each other down.
The gym should be a safe space for everyone, and everyone should feel they are able to go regardless of their clothing choice and not feel like they are being judged or given evil eye. And that goes for people choosing to wear baggy t-shirts or scrunch bum attire.

I have a male friend who when he spots a woman with her shorts or trousers up her crack says, “Look, that woman’s munching.” In my opinion women who wear such tight nether garments are just asking for UTI’s or sore botties.

@Annemaria you and your friends sound perfect for each other.

He sounds really nice. Is he on match.com? I'll join the queue.

GoosieLucy
I don't agree with vitriol at individual women but I also don't buy the idea that anything done by a woman should be free from negative comments simply for being a woman.

It's no surprise to me that the trend for scrunch bum gym clothes happens after multiple years of telling women they need to have large peachy bums that look a certain way. I also don't think it's any coincidence that it's a trend that, ultimately, feeds the idea of female attractiveness based on male gaze ideals.

Aesthetically the trend looks ridiculous to me as a woman. I've also got no intention of pretending that this trend (like many others) is one about female empowerment.

Individual women can make whatever choices they want. They'll be getting no side eye from me in whatever they wear at the gym. I still reserve the right to think it's a trend more about sexualisation of women than empowering women to access exercise.

O.M.G!!!! I hadn't heard of nor have ever seen 'scrunch bum' anything so WHAT a revelation those photos were!! 😂
I'm now more than ever convinced that vast numbers of the female sex is slowly losing it's collective mind and I suppose we could blame social media and the Kardashians (😱) in equal measure for this?!
It's not so much the clothes/make up/hair/cosmetic surgery etc that's the problem but that the capability to understand and accept what personally suits or looks good that seems to be completely lacking in so many people?! 😳
Females have always copied each other trying to be 'in fashion' but now when I look around me it just seems that we have gone backwards to the restrictive, time consuming, false, brash 'sexy' looks favoured in earlier decades but without the class and sophistication of that time...'trout pout' lips, 'slug' eyebrows, massive false boobs usually half hanging out no matter what the occasion or time of day, faces so botoxed there's not a shred of expression and long wavy 'Barbie' hair and heels so high nobody can actually walk properly!!! I'm so glad that I'm way passed the age where any of this would be required of me just to fit in with my peers!! 🙄

I hadn't heard of nor have ever seen 'scrunch bum' anything so WHAT a revelation those photos were!! 😂I'm now more than ever convinced that vast numbers of the female sex is slowly losing it's collective mind

Calm down. Clearly not enough numbers of the female sex (!) have lost their minds for you to have encountered this before you saw this thread.

@LolaSmiles exactly this. We can view the trend as not necessarily a positive for women, and discuss the implications, without judging individual women.

I couldn't care less what others are wearing (apart from males who insist on wearing their jeans around their upper thighs! I always have an almost unbearable urge to hoist them up like I use to do to my young kids when their trousers dropped a bit! Lol!), and I care even less what other people think about what I'm wearing.....

I think they're hideous. No jealousy here.
I'm more likely to be jealous of women looking good in vest tops and shorts.

To Dr sbaitso, He is very nice but he’s also married & manic depressive…

Damn, he sounded like such a catch before that.

I don't wear that. I'd rather die than have my leggings that far into my soul. Maybe that will be my seventh circle?
I wear husbands pocketless and therefore useless adidas shorts that, for reference are a triple XL because my husband has thighs for days and I'm a size 10/12, they're practically joggers on me, as he's 6'3" and I'm 5'7" and one of his old golds gym tops that has been around since the Stone Age and has more holes than my Sunday socks. I'm there to lift my body weight so my daughters don't look at manipulating, cheating, greasy boys with 2" biceps. Not show off my 'glute pump' so idc

I may be wrong, but I think the ruching is only on the outside. I don't think the leggings actually go into your bum.

I don’t know about triggering. Triggering what? It’s just - women have started wearing skintight leggings with arse cheek contouring and ‘pointing to arsehole’ puckering. It’s… notable. Of course it is. Come on.

The ruching doesn't actually point to the arsehole. It's something people are making up due to their imaginations being enraged and titillated in equal measure.

There's a line of ruching down the middle where the arse crack would be, supposedly giving the impression of a big yet pert bum. It definitely draws attention to the arse but all this talk about arseholes - and my goodness, isn't there a lot of it - is simply tosh.

I know I'm not the only one here old enough to remember trousers with Juicy written across the arse.

Ok, yes it’s definitely a me problem. The rouching and puckering is in a slightly different location on the centre of the cheeks and my filthy mind is just making a huge leap to it being close to and suggestive of an arsehole. You got me! I’m obsessed with them!

Right, off to make a cup of tea and listen to The Archers.

We had teens turning up to school wearing shorts and leggings like these for non-uniform day. So inappropriate.

Yup it is all part of what is seen as the ideal now - a big arse and yes anal sex.

You've got a lot to say about the detail of the ruching, to the point where you're inventing obscene details it doesn't have and discussing them at length.

To be fair, you're not the only one. Wasn't ruching all the way down the arse crack enough for you people?