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To run up to every woman I see wearing leggings and a short top and tell her...

120 replies

sensuallettuce · 26/03/2012 21:25

...that I can see her pants.

They are see through are they not?

Like the Emperer's New Clothes Hmm.

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trikken · 26/03/2012 21:59

um me. Ive done it. I wont do it again, I promise. I do mostly wear long tops with them.

PastGrace · 26/03/2012 22:00

I was innocently walking across a bridge the other day and a woman cycled past. Wearing leggings. And a short top. And a thong.

Thin leggings + short top + thong + stretched over bike saddle = mucho brain bleach.

NotQuiteCockney · 26/03/2012 22:05

Isn't it more polite to rush up to them and breathlessly say 'oh my goodness, you have forgotten your skirt!', in an 'I'm sure you'd want to know about this' sort of tone?

wherearemysocks · 26/03/2012 22:06

and whats with tan coloured leggins and short tops? Why would you wear something that makes it look like you are actually naked from the waist down?

I am an offender of wearing my running leggins out to the shops sometimes though but they are proper sports ones that are not see through and I do go running later.

LittleAlbert · 26/03/2012 22:08

Yes, I was thinking just this today in the park walking behind a girl on a bike - Lycra legging stretched so tight I could see she had red knickers on.

So poor girl in some camel coloured ones which highlighted every lump, bump, in glorious detail.

LittleAlbert · 26/03/2012 22:09

Yes, I was thinking just this today in the park walking behind a girl on a bike - Lycra legging stretched so tight I could see she had red knickers on.

So poor girl in some camel coloured ones which highlighted every lump, bump, in glorious detail.

Spuddybean · 26/03/2012 22:12

erm i wear really thick maternity leggins with a tight top...am i bad?

In my defence they defo aren't see thru, i wear boy short type low pants and they aren't uber tight - so you can't see camel toe.

I also have very pretty bras which (not now i'm pregnant and in horrible big yellow one) i do often wear purposely on show as part of my outfit...am i double bad in that case?

Spuddybean · 26/03/2012 22:14

Oh and DP insists on wearing shorts over his running leggins as he feels too self conscious with all the junk on show!

SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 26/03/2012 22:33

In my day, leggings were thick. These things they wear today are just glorified tights!
And whilst I'm on the subject, tights aren't trousers either. Even if they are cable knit or leopard print.
And, when you are actually wearing them as tights, under shorts, you aren't meant to be able to see the thick gusset part at the top, it means your shorts are too short.
Oh, and when you wear your cut down jeans for the shorts, you look really stoopid with your pocket linings showing out the bottom!
And your hair? Try brushing it.
And after you brush it, you could also move your parting up from just above your left ear, that just makes you look like Bobby Charlton!

PastGrace · 26/03/2012 23:08

But I never do the rest of it, ever. Although I probably would if I had nicer legs... Wink

SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 26/03/2012 23:12
Grin
sensuallettuce · 26/03/2012 23:17

And don't get me started on these all in one Lycra patterned numbers Hmm

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Hoebag · 26/03/2012 23:17

I only wear leggings with knee length stuff, but i am fat so anything else would be obscene.

blapbird · 26/03/2012 23:30

The child I nanny for goes to a local (very posh) private school.

On the playground the other day, whilst waiting for her to come out of school, there was a mother in leggings and short T-shirt, she was telling the other mums that she had just completed a marathon and then without any hesitation or any explicable reason, she bent down to touch her toes to illustrate how stiff she was feeling, fully exposing her arse and knickers to all the parents and me behind her- I couldn't believe it!! Everyone knows to wear long tops or dresses with leggings..surely??

ItsTimeToBurnThisDiscoDown · 26/03/2012 23:36

I always want to say something when I see girls in halter neck tops with normal bras underneath, I hate it!

blapbird · 26/03/2012 23:38

esp. grey bra straps which are supposed to be white

Lueji · 26/03/2012 23:54

Yadnbu

Particularly if you happen to see one with lace leggings and a thong. And a short halterneck top.

CreepyWeeBrackets · 26/03/2012 23:58

Halterneck tops with normal bras? What fresh hell is this?

WillowFae · 27/03/2012 00:14

I'm the same Hoebag. Leggings but only with LONG tunics (knee length)

ComposHat · 27/03/2012 00:43

pudenda

Isn't he an Italian footballer?

Mind you I thought cunnilingus was the Irish national airline til I was 26.

SodoffBaldrick · 27/03/2012 01:16

Everyone thinks their leggings are thick and not see-through, and yet...

Of course they're not see-through from the comfort and lighting of your bedroom, while you squint round to get a view of your rear. What the general public see in full, daylight view walking in front of them is another matter.

I was queuing up behind a girl in grey-leggings-plus-too-short-top combo yesterday, and her leggings had a ladder-run and hole in them in the arse. Shock So not just see-through, but an unencumbered view of her pants.

And weight doesn't even come into it. I was walking behind a gazelle-like 18 year old once, with legs like a giraffe and two tennis balls for an arse and it still wasn't a good look. Nobody needs to see a complete stranger's cheek formations.

Once and for all - if you want to wear leggings, just cover your arse.

springydaffs · 27/03/2012 01:22

boom boom Grin

as for I always want to say something when I see girls in halter neck tops with normal bras underneath, I hate it!

no no no, that's cool, innit. Like really cool - duh.

I saw a pic in a weekend supplement of a young girl who for all the world looked like she was naked from the waste down and had a brazilian (or whatever you call it when it's ALL SHAVED OFF) and I was like this >> Shock - like SHOCKED. and I just couldn't work out why a girl would be standing there starkers from the waste down and not be looking brazen or uncomfortable.

took me ages to work out she was wearing tan leggings.

zeropinterest · 27/03/2012 01:27

Leggings + short top are okay only if you are currently engaged in aerobic activity. If you stop for longer than a quick slurp of water, you need to find something to cover your arse.

IwoulddoPachacuti · 27/03/2012 01:28

See through leggings are awful. It's what makes me realise I'm getting old Sad I have far too much of a wobbly arse, and gorgeous c-section overhang to get away with it!

Spuddybean · 27/03/2012 01:28

mine seriously aren't see thru sodof they are like reinforced tarpaulin. I have looked in the daylight and bent over, and asked DP and we are positive they are pretty sturdy. Non pregnancy ones can be flimsy i agree tho.

Mine also don't do the thing of going in your crack (front or back) as they aren't like a second skin.

The tan ones are very peculiar. i am often shocked when i walk behind someone in those. I especially like the ones which also show the cellulite thru. Hmm

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