To think that there should be laws about leggings?

[dadshere]

Just reading to my DD in the library. Mum with similar aged daughter is wearing black leggings. I say black but in fact they are closer to a little bit opaque, only a little mind. She is not wearing underwear. She is basically naked from the waist down, sitting four feet from me with her legs open whilst her dd sits on the floor listening to her read. I'm not even sure that they are leggings, they might be tights, they certainly couldn't be any tighter. I feel like I am being presented with a view that should be reserved for gynecologists, midwives and lovers.

What's the problem with being male or female and not wanting to see someone's genitals in public? And looking at someone's face is difficult when their anus is practically winking at you.

A few years ago I was shopping in town and walking behind a group of men probably in their mid twenties. One of them was wearing his jeans very low on his hips with his white Calvins on show. Unfortunately this only highlighted his hairy arse crack and it was difficult to look anywhere else. He might as well have circled it in neon.

How can considering the feelings of others when making your clothing choices be a feminist issue?
So many people rushing to defend Library Lady's God given right to flash her fanny at preschool story time. Mad.

Nothing wrong with leggings as a clothing item, as a pregnant lady I adore them at the moment. However I always choose good quality yoga leggings or double up my cheap pairs, the idea of my underwear being visible through them makes me cringe, let alone all my other business if I went commando.
I have no mental filter so I probably would have gone up to the lady and told her her trousers were see through and that my child had noticed, just in case she was unaware (I've worn some strange shit when I'm tired).
However lady would probably have been mortified and felt awful, I don't think she left the house intending to expose herself.
It's like the food on the face issue or a dangling booger, yes it's embarrassing but I'd rather know!

I'm seeing a lot of transparent leggings around, with short tops.

but so far everyone's been wearing knickers.

thing is, those leggings - or are they tights - are so see through I wonder how you could not know and not realise that your genitals are on show if you actually put them on with no pants?!

I always ponder the idea of dressedinthedark.com (a wardrobe version of yplac) when I see people like this: I was on a flight with two young women in see-through leggings not long ago. Obviously, I first judged them when they were in front of me in the check in queue... The destination is one which every guidebook or tourist resource begins by suggesting that wearing modest attire for both sexes will be treated as a show of respect by the residents: so leggings with crop tops, even when not see-through (they were) were noticeable from the outset. To be fair, though, one of the women was wearing a thong. Mind you, they paled into insignificance (if going commando whilst wearing see through leggings can ever be considered insignificant) when compared with the woman wearing cream silky Daisy Dukes which showed her bright tropical print thong in all its glory. Mind you, if I had a nice firm bum, perhaps I'd want people to catch a tantalising glimpse through my outerwear...

I agree with OP, though: some things cannot be unseen. I genuinely don't want to see anyone else's labia, topiary or butt crack whilst I'm on the plane. No exceptions. Ever.

but you can't see behind you can you - even with two mirrors it's not that easy
It's easy if you hold a mirror whilst standing with your back to a larger one. Great views all round.

you can't see behind no

but you do know if you're wearing transparent leggings and no knickers

daisy dukes and bright thongs are deliberate surely, no one does that by accident! So surely same applies to this woman in the library.

Leggings and shorts with a band shirt is pretty much all I wear :D but I would never go out with everything on view, yikes.

Walking through city yesterday with young DD. I was lost so although holding her hand I was a bit distracted. She gasped...I looked down. The woman in front of her was wearing thigh high boots with the shortest flippy skirt. Poor DD was head height with the woman's bottom and had clearly got an eyeful!

I've never witnessed see through tight leggings which show off a woman's private parts. I don't leave in a posh area either but most people seem to dress for the occasion.

dadshere, what a horrible comment and horrible thread. You sound a delight. Not.

Trying to assimilate your fatherly attentiveness that comes with reading to your DD with utterly misogynistic commentary about a woman in the same library? Really - how macho you are.... I think my husband might just mention it to me, not see fit to broadcast it over mumsnet in some attention seeking way.

Trying to assimilate your fatherly attentiveness that comes with reading to your DD with utterly misogynistic commentary about a woman in the same library? Really - how macho you are.... I think my husband might just mention it to me, not see fit to broadcast it over mumsnet in some attention seeking way.

OP is not a man. Do you actually read threads before commenting?

Marinade

Except the OP is a woman....... so ate ypu sexist or what???????

Yep. Of course. Silly me. Perhaps I expect a bit more kindness from another female rather than this derogatory nonsense.

Hopefully we can all agree that this is one thread that is better off without a diagram.

I wear leggings all the time )too lazy to shave legs) but always make sure mine are not see through and like others wear with long top or dress. Some of the comments on the thread are ridicoulous. Wearing what you want is one thing but people should also have respect for other people. Do I want want to see someone else's fanjo or ass because they choose to wear see through clothes or no underwear nope. The comment about the woman in library maybe not affording clothes made be roll my eyes. Pants are very cheap no excuse

Lol @ chocolatebiscuit

Ate you Patrick Stewart from Extras

Babyiwantabump

I just read this does seem to be the outfit of choice round here - see through primark leggings and teeny tiny top...
as a teeny tiny top hat. Good God, what a look that would be. Do you think we can start a trend?

Leggings are children's apparel and entirely unsuitable for adult women unless worn under a dress or at least a lower thigh type tunic. Or for dance/the gym.

Well this advert came up on my Facebook this morning - so it must be a thing . To wear see through leggings on purpose?

Nchappy I just laughed out loud . Teeny tiny top hats 🎩 the new fashion craze!

Babyiwantabump I'm just going through my Monopoly set as we speak. Off to Primark next

I love my leggings (cheap ones shock horror), I always wear them over black knickers, the big ones that come up to the waist, and wear a long top over them. By long,I mean at least mid thigh length.
Wear whatever the hell you want, as long as your private/sexual parts are covered. And that goes for male and female equally. But hardly surprising that people have tried to turn it into a feminist issue, on mumsnet. Has anyone mentioned PND yet? Or suggested that the lady might be too poor to afford knickers?
I'm sure someone will. After all, there's always some reason why women, especially mothers, can't adhere to basic standards of behaviour on here.

But hardly surprising that people have tried to turn it into a feminist issue, on mumsnet. Has anyone mentioned PND yet? Or suggested that the lady might be too poor to afford knickers?

Or 'early dementia'. Anyone behaving weirdly over the age of 30 always summons the 'could it be early dementia?' poster.