to think leggings on their own is ridiculous

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as they are basically a form of tights worn under a skirt or long top. Not worn as trousers like I see so much of, particularly teens or young students. My daughter has taken to this recently but its her choice, I have bigger battles to pick.

I suppose the false jeans kind make a BIT of sense but I still don't get it.

i think people can dress up as giant toothbrushes if the fancy takes them

Saw a group of young girls like this. All bar one had on black leggings and cropped tops. It looked dull and boring and like some kind of uniform. and they all looked like Max Wall, remember him.

at Max Wall - that's what my mum and Sdad used to liken me to in my leggings and DMs. Yes leggings must be worn with long t-shirts, obviously.

YABU

Back in the 80's when leggings were invented they were a decent thickness.

The trouble is the modern ones are shite

It really doesn't look very nice and often leaves nothing at all to the imagination which is pretty gross when out and about.

Countess, the campus where I work is heaving with girls wearing very flimsy leggings with short tops. Not so bad from the front but usually unforgivable from the back. To quote Ogden Nash "You look divine as you advance . . . Have you seen yourself retreating?"

I am in that unfortunate position of being too pregnant for my usual clothes, but not pregnant enough for maternity trousers to stay up. Leggings are my only choice. I do my best to find arse covering tops, but on the days where I have nothing left that manages to cover bump and butt forgive me.

YANBU. Especially the patterned leggongs where the pattern becomes distorted out of all recognition as it is so s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d.

how disgusting to link a picture probably taken unawares
you think the lassie consented to that
it's nasty picture to prove puerile point about attire

I quite agree. Im my day, leggings were trousers. nice and thick, and totally not seethrough! Nowadays, they are just footless tights!
I spend a lot if time people watching at work, and its really never a good look!
The trouble is that NOTHING is left to the imagination. And even if you have the pertest bum in the world, in leggings, its going to jiggle unpleasantly.

Why are they so thin?

DD2 has some footless tights, bought labeled as such and DD1 has some M&S angel leggings. The difference in thickness is negligible. In fact I think DD2s tights might be more decent.

Yadnbu. Its a hideous sight on anyone. Leggings are not trousers. when will people learn. Leggings and dresses or big jumpers are ok but not shirt tops.

YANBU. Even if someone has the most perfect figure in the world it still looks bad IMO. I don't want to see the exact shape of someone's bum cheeks and camel toe.

it is ok to excercise in the gym/home

I don't give a rats behind if a person has a whole load of extra weight or an arse as tight as the back of a fiat 500, I just hate walking behind someone on the steps when exiting the crowded tube station to find the persons arse stuck in my face with little left to the imagination. Leggings are thin enough and tight enough to almost be an undergarment IMO. All I see is your naked arse and the outline of your vaj if you wear them without something over the crotch area.

I may sound like a perv but that's what I see. Its great if you want to attract a partner I suppose, but very off putting for me. And I am in my 20's and could wear them that way if I wanted but choose to wear something over them for that very reason.

Topshop do thick ones (silly prices though, £18) and I wear mine with plain "oversized tops" (more ridiculous prices) or heavy jumpers and Docs. They're easy, warm, comfortable.

I think they flatter people most of the time, they're just like a second skin, but other people seem to have such a huge problem with the leggings as trousers thing that I don't do it myself.

I cannot stand seeing people wearing leggings like trousers. Especially as they are usually really thin fabric and you can completely see their knickers through them. They just look like tights and the woman ends up looking like a bit of a nutter.

Utterly revolting, ridiculous, nasty, tacky etc, etc.

I know what you mean by the 'hoof'. I don't understand it, because I make a real point of not having the hoof and it's the sort of thing I would definitely check before leaving the house. I'm too old to wear leggings and a short top anyway.

What people wear is up to them, but I'm curious, do they actually know that everyone can see their knickers?

Is it such a big mystery, knicker-wearing? who cares!

It looks grim. If you don't care about looking grim then fine, but I don't want to see your arse cheeks and your clopper in such scary detail thanks!

Clopper. Never heard it called that before.

I personally give a shit. And again I find it pathetic that so many people do.

Oh dear better put my leggings away then . Some of the cheaper leggings are so thin, but next do some in decent thickness

I learnt it off Mumsnet.