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 😂

Those leggings just remind me of a cat’s bumhole to be honest.I’d stick to the t shirt and leggings-in a few years they’ll look back and think ‘why the hell did we wear those’😂

Bloody awful things, they don't look good on anybody.
Whoever designed these was having a laugh!!

It's the skin coloured ones that confuse me. Why would you want to appear as though naked to anyone from a distance?

They look like they're slowly being sucked up into the bum - like "shhhhlllluuupppp!" and they'll disappear completely

I wear gym leggings, a sports bra and a fairly snug fitting vest top in the gym. I don’t want cotton clothes that make me sweat and I don’t want a baggy t shirt flapping around me as I run/row/lift.

My gym is a mixed bag of younger and older people, we all tend to wear gym clothing but only a few of the younger girls wear the bum scrunchers and to be fair they look amazing in them. If I had an arse like theirs I would too but I’m old and whilst mine is pretty good normal gym leggings are fine for me!

I don’t see the need to wear them out and about as normal clothes, but women have always worn clothing to highlight their boobs, bums and legs, this is just a different way of doing that.

Not look ......

I've been going to gyms in different cities and at different cost and quality levels for 15 years and I have never seen this "posing twats" phenomenon (the stereotype existed before Instagram, they were just posing instead of taking photos). Never. Most people at all the gyms I've been to have been normal looking and the truly ripped or superfit ones are just working out, as you'd need to do to get those physiques.

A very few women wear revealing stuff but it's hard to care.

I've never seen women "prancing around" naked in the changing rooms either, although in MN land it's an epidemic. I've seen women briefly naked while they dry and dress. Never a prance, not once.

I was terrified when I first started using the gym. I thought I was going to be surrounded by fit young people looking amazing , whilst I was the fat unfit oldie and everyone was staring . My gym thankfully isn't a MN gym. There are just regular people there minding their own business. Old , young, men, women, kids/teens even, disabled people etc. And no ones looking. Occasionally you get a "hi do you mind if I just use this machine.. " or excuse me can I just get to..."

They really arent really hostile place id imagined thanks to MN.

The Instagram gym posers are very much in evidence at my gym - perfectly groomed, come in to chat and take pics while they lift the odd weight, perfect bodies because they’re about 19, not through working out (I remember having an excellent body at that age too. I discovered exercise in my late 20s once that was a distant memory). I find it bizarre but they’re paying their membership fees so guess they can do what they like. I have never seen a changing room prancer though - everyone is just…getting changed in there.

Oh those are bad, sooo bad

@Radiodread ·
They are hideous! Yuck. I’m not for modesty but these look like you’re hiding a Cornish pasty in your arse crack.

Well where else are you supposed to put your post gym pasty then???!!!

I haven't seen those kind but there are loads of people wearing the cycling shorts/ crop top look around town and to the pub where I live, and full on lycia flesh coloured body suits.

Everywhere you look is wobbling bum cheeks.

I taught aerobics in the 90's - micro shorts and bra tops, seriously cut away leotards 😳but I can honestly say, I would never, ever, ever, of been seen in those 🤮

I got knickers that had that scrunch bum thing… they are actually very flattering and make your bum look more perky

can’t quite believe some of the comments on here…. Women judging other women for what they wear, saying “they say they don’t want attention then they are wearing this!”, finding it outrageous and disgusting

I am old enough to feel it all takes me right back to the eighties, and the “she was asking for it, wearing that short skirt”, or the 90s with “is that a skirt or a belt?” Or the noughties with thongs on display “that can’t be comfortable” and “she’s showing her bum” etc etc

all often from women too, it’s called internalised misogyny

we have created and upheld a patriarchal system where women’s youth and beauty are their main currency, and it does not take long before they are deemed “past it”, “put it away grandma “ and “mutton”

so many young women enjoying their (temporary) power to scandalise and alienate older women and show off to men. Hold their attention until they too are too old and suddenly mutton….

it has been like this for along time!

we are all part of the system, why do we care what young women wear? …

Welcome to my yr12 lessons. Some of the girls wear these leggings and a crop top every day. Sometimes flesh coloured. I genuinely admire their body confidence. Then it gets warm and they wear the shorts with a bandeau top. It's a Kardashian thing.

Why is this so much worse, though? At least everything is covered.

A girl at my work wears them. For work.

we are all part of the system, why do we care what young women wear? …

Because the fashion industries preys on young woman to make them believe they have to follow a trend that unflattering and ugly?

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You see young women as victims and not mature enough to decide what to wear?

I have no problem with the women at my gym looking incredible in these (I do draw the line at flesh coloured ones though, that is too disconcerting!) and it's better than the super short shorts that young women seemed to be wearing a year or so ago that are cut halfway up the bum cheeks so they hang out - I also don't like thong swimwear - I can't get past people's actual naked bum cheeks out in public. Covered in Lycra is fine. At the gym, what bothers me is men taking up all the space sitting on machines on their phones and flexing all over the place. Just do your workout and go!

Oh if I were 20 years younger and had a super fit body I’d probably wear them. As it is I’d look like a sack of potatoes if I tried it now.
looking back, I’d have more than likely been in the pub though so 🙈

This is me! We should start a support group ‘People Who Are Surprised By Their Own Disapproval’.

I can't even bring myself to wear leggings at the gym. Baggy and not so baggy trackie bottoms all the way for me!

We should start a support group ‘People Who Are Surprised By Their Own Disapproval’.

This made me chuckle!

Nothing will contain my sweat, tbh😂 I’m just a sweaty, red faced mess in the gym. Wearing regular black leggings and baggy shirts.

I do however (obviously) put my gym towel on the seats etc. and wipe everything I touched (handles, back rest etc) with the gym’s towelettes.

I once went on the rowing machine (former gym, thankfully) after mid 50ies/early 60ies (?) man.

He wore loose tracksuits and clearly didn’t wipe the seat afterwards.
There was enough sweat left behind to basically still see the outline of his arse and nether areas🤢

based on this: I really don’t think one’s choice of clothes matters. Good gym etiquette / hygiene practices are much more important!