To think if your leggings have the appearance of 40 denier tights

[Missunreasonable]

You should not wear them as trousers.
The amount of people I see wearing very see through leggings with little crop tops or tops that sit on the waist line with their knickers clearly on show is astounding. Do people not realise that this is akin to going out in just a pair of tights and short top? Do people even look in the mirror before they leave the house?

I work in a college and one of my students came in wearing size 12 leggings - she's about an 18. Short top and a hoody. Other students were bitching behind her back that they could see her knickers etc. I had a quiet word, she was gutted but haven't seen her in the outfit since.

Not nasty, I'm a size 16 and wear leggings and dresses.She came and asked me where I get my dresses a week later. She had no idea that her everything was on show.

YY to jeans with the crotch dangling mid way to their knees! I get the urge to come up behind them and lift them up by their belt loops and shake them into their trousers like one does with a toddler

This made me laugh.
Not too long ago, I was walking into a shopping centre behind a guy who carefully checked, as he went in, that his jeans were carefully halfway down his backside. Ridiculous looking.

I think the whole weight issue is a red herring. See through leggings with knickers on display looks awful whether you're a size 6 or 18.

Maxi dresses a close second. I felt really guilty because a tall, slim friend of mine who possibly may have looked good in a maxi dress told me she hovered over one in a shop then binned the idea because of what I'd said about maxi dresses.

YANBU these people are missing the three m's
No mirror
No mates
No mother
Because if they had any of the above, it just wouldn't happen ;-)

some maxi dresses look good on some people - if I had the height and figure i'd love a strappy floaty as one they look nice and cool. anything clingy, I can't get the appeal of - surely they are not comfy, never mind what's on show! And don't get me started on the strapless boob tube type of maxi dress, I have yet to see a woman of any age/size who looks good in one! a school mum who must be about a size 26 wears one, if she trod on her own hem it does not bear thinking about

I agree...I saw someone the other day and you could see everything, it was akin to being in pair of knickers in supermarket car park.

every lump was highlighted and bum cheeks, all on ful display.

YANBU these people are missing the three m's
No mirror
No mates
No mother
Because if they had any of the above, it just wouldn't happen ;-)

Umm nice to all of us who have sadly lost our mothers , anyway the lady I saw was with her mother, and they are quite wealthy too, the mother dresses very very well.

CherryEarrings Thu 07-Aug-14 19:45:32

CherryEarrings Thu 07-Aug-14 19:56:00

YANBU because I don't think see through legging wearers realise. All the preachy people saying it's not a question of choosing to criticise or not to criticise other people's taste, well chances are it's not their taste either. They just haven't seen their own backside.

So every single one of you who has a pair of leggings lurking in your drawer and who ever might wear them even just to nip out for a pint of milk, go and check now. Stuff a pillow into the leggings. If you can tell what colour the pillow is when shoved in your leggings then we can tell if you've got your pulling pants or your big grey ones on.

ifuknow

'White or flesh coloured ones are worst where you can see every cellulite dimple, most of the wearers are size 16+
Young girls often look really slovenly these days, with flab hanging out all over.'

I think this is really mean. It's a bad look but it's nothing to do with dress size.

I was walking behind a mother and her daughter who looked about 11 or 12. They daughter had done that rolling up the school skirt thing to make it into a mini, fair enough they all do that, but she obviously hadn't realised there was a slit in the back of the skirt and she'd hoiked it up so high that everyone could see her white knickers as she walked along. I couldn't believe that her mother was letting her walk about like that. So some mothers are no help whatsoever in preserving their daughters' dignity!

As for the men/boys with their trousers halfway down their bum, I was driving behind someone cycling like that (practically sitting on his belt) and his pants were see-through. It wasn't a pleasant sight. As for the young man I saw waddling up the road in a very strange way in his attempts to stop his trousers descending to his knees, I really had to resist the urge to inform him that walking as if he'd just filled his nappy wasn't as alluring as he obviously thought it was . Oh dear, I'm going to be one of those old women aren't I? .

YY @ Haffdonga Thu 07-Aug-14 23:06:06

'I had a quiet word, she was gutted but haven't seen her in the outfit since. '

bobpatandigglepiggle, that was actually very kind of you

I think the people wearing leggings/skinny jeans that match their own flesh tone are the worst, because I can't stop myself doing an unappealing gawp-double take combo before I realise that the person in question is not actually walking bottomless down Streatham High Street, they have just, for reasons unknown, chosen to sport a trompe d'oeil commando look.

The opaqueness is mostly a light thing. A mate wore a lovely jersey maxi dress to my wedding. She looked great, but when the black and white photos came back from the photographer they all showed her with the dress clinging in a v. unflattering way to a paunch. Fortunately we had colour ones as well in which she looked fine, so we gave her a copy of one of those and all was well. Change of light can do very funny things to an outfit.

I think we should bring back the late and unlamented Christmas Jumper Legging. Bonkers though they were, at least they were mostly opaque.

LadyIsabella Streatham hill was the epi centre of this look.

It has now migrated downwards towards Croydon.

For those also offended by bike pants, here's why they should only ever be black:

forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=18136

I see a young woman every day on my way to work. The last few days she has been wearing leggings and a crop top. She is very slim and toned and looks amazing - because her leggings are not see through. If they were, she'd look an utter knob.

I read on a thread here about a woman who wore thin leggings and no knickers to the gym. Was working out with her trainer (on that bringing your thighs together machine thingymajig that I can't remember the name of!) when she looked down and realised her bush was now pretty much on the outside of her leggings as all her pubes were poking through the thin fabric!. Let that be a warning. .

There is a twitter page showcasing legging disasters

mobile.twitter.com/Leggingsfails/media/grid?idx=13&tid=462599732691750912

YANBU! Leggings are hideous, full stop!

I saw a woman the other day in her 50s, crop top and black leggings which were so stretched that they were see through. Not a good look! But if she's happy then it's her business
YANBU though.

YANBU.

Leggings are leggings and they serve a distinct purpose.

Trousers are trousers and they serve a distinct purpose.

Tights are tights and they serve another. Women should be capable of distinguishing between the three. Leggings need to have a long top that covers your arse.

I am sick of seeing far too much of people's minges and arse cracks and rucked up knickers in the street in broad daylight. To add insult to injury they usually wear these thin 'leggings' with a spaghetti strap vest and all the bra straps on full view. YUK YUK YUK.

I saw a girl of about 15 out shopping in what can only be described as a bra the other day. It was definitely more of a bra that a top. I wondered what on earth her mother was thinking to have allowed her to leave the house. I'd have chained myself across the doorway until she agreed to put something less ridiculous on.

I realise that the person in question is not actually walking bottomless down Streatham High Street

It's also in Wandsworth, having done a double take whilst in my car at the women I thought was naked from the waist down but turned out to have flesh coloured leggings.

See through leggings are not a good look, on anyone. Same as white trousers and non neutral knickers. I don't need to see people's underwear.

I had a look at those pictures MissUnreasonable

I know leggings are cheap (£3 in Primark ) wash and dry quickly and easier to pull on than jeans but there was NO excuse for some of these.

My (size 6) DD wears her school skirt uber short but she wears a pair of gymnastics shorts underneath (not to stop her thighs rubbing, for public decency)
I'm the mum barricading the door shrieking "You're not going out like that "