To think scrunch bum leggings look fucking shit

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Even the name is horrendous

They would on me.

How can anyone deny the existence of the patriarchy? Its about socialisation of women, who have always been oppressed by their biology. It's not specific named people and if that's conceptually too difficult to grasp maybe leave it to adults to talk about. It's the fact men have more power than women. See primary school playgrounds or watch a lesson. Jeez.

Have you looked in a mirror

Exactly.

Totally off point maybe but it makes me smirk that the teenage girl yoot of today think they're smashing the patriarchy by dressing how they want by wearing school skirts so short you can see their bum cheeks and scrunch bum leggings, etc

They're actually playing into their hands.

If men did the same: I don't want to see men on the street in the equivalent of swim shorts or bare chests.

Kindly explain why most sexual assailants are male and most victims are female then. Men feeling entited to women's bodies is the foundation of patriarchy.

This conversation about empowering oneself through the medium of leggings that go up your arsecrack reminds me of this

Your body isn't your choice. Your terrible clothing taste is your choice.

It's not OK to shame someone for having big tits/flat tits/spare tyre/mum tum/etc. It's absolutely OK to laugh if someone thinks that ski pants should be worn anywhere other than a ski slope.

It's the difference between criticising what someone is and what they believe.

I think they’re awful. But I also think they’re like an updated version of that awful 90s trend for cycling shorts/leggings with a thong over the top in gymwear.

Except that, whereas in the 90s it was all about having a tiny bum, the 2020s fashion for bum shape is massive (but with a tiny waist).

I certainly won’t be wearing scrunch bum leggings. Which is a mercy for everyone who will be looking at me! 😆

I think most leggings look awful unless worn with something long enough to cover the bum, and the thighs in the case of fatter people. I do not want to see lardy arses, especially in nude shades or thin fabric, thanks.

That's exactly what I saw yesterday when out shopping. A very overweight young woman, short length top and flesh coloured leggings really tightly stretched over her backside were a distraction to say the least.

Dark coloured leggings with a longer length top would have looked so much nicer.

Yeah...like women dressing as men dressing as women...
I guess it's post- post moderninist fun?

They look ridiculous, but I'm sure I wear things others think look ridiculous. So I keep my thoughts to myself!

There are terrible fashions of every era and this one seems to be butt-shorts and scrunch leggings 😩 I do not want to see anyone's bum cheeks! The pink/peach/brown basically flesh coloured ones are the worst as they make the wearer look naked. I really wonder how many people are choosing to wear them just because it's currently fashionable versus actually enjoying wearing them. 🤔

I’ve only ever seen one or two people in the gym wear them, never in the wild and the couple that I’ve seen in the gym probably had lovely bottoms without these.
Nobody really cares, people wear all sorts. Whatever floats your boat.

I was queuing in a shop recently behind a young woman and her DP & small children. She was extremely overweight and was wearing a pair of those tiny shorts that don't really cover one's arse cheeks.
I tried desperately to avert my eyes but I couldn't stop staring in horrified fascination. It was like I was frozen to the spot 🤣

I’m still trying to get round the thought that someone actually believes that the fashion industry, magazines, cosmetic houses etc are dominated by……women. ( I nearly wrote men there, my incredulity seeping through to my fingertips).

That has not been my experience, either observed or IRL. I think :

Men like to control how women present in public. In some cultures, they like to enforce ‘modesty’ , so women have to cover certain parts of their anatomy, at the extreme they cannot go outside their home without being covered from head to foot in a concealing garment, sometimes even the face is totally covered and there is only a small slit for navigation.

The brief period of ‘equality’ which some women strove to achieve has meant that women in some cultures have the ‘right’ to dress ‘ as they choose’ . So those societies have persuaded women that the ‘best ‘ way to utilise that choice is by increasingly revealing and sexualised clothing. Because for both societies, women are sexual objects, to use or preserve without reference to their wishes.

Absolutely! The boys/men must think all their Christmases have come at once.

I like them, they are comfy and make me feel confident after having a baby and losing my arse ! Each to their own 😀

I didn't know what they were called until I saw this thread but there was a young woman in the gym wearing a pair of flesh/pink coloured ones last week. Everyone who came in did a double take.

She didn't do much in the way of exercise but spent half an hour getting the right selfie trying to get backside pushed out and pouty lips in exactly the right position but the gym equipment in the background. You could tell she thought she was the bees knees by the tossing of the head and flicking of the hair. To be fair she had an amazing figure but when she walked away her bum looked like two plates of pink blanchmange during an earthquake. As she walked across the car park the comments coming from the guys in the weights area were something else (but very funny I'm ashamed to admit).

I thought those leggings were supposed to give you support? These certainly didn't, unless you were standing posing.

Yes, balloons make sense. What does it say about me that Tony Harrison sprung to mind first?

😂

I'm still trying to get round the thought that someone actually believes that the fashion industry, magazines, cosmetic houses etc are dominated by……women.

Men:

• Karl Lagerfeld
• Alexander McQueen
• Manolo Blahnik
• Christian Dior

Many of whom design(ed) painful, impractical, and uncomfortable clothes and shoes.

Women:

• Coco Chanel
• Mary Quant

Who designed things like women's suiting and comfortable, if short, dresses.

It's the difference between seeing clothing as a covering for a human and seeing clothing as artistic expression and the woman as an object that is part of the artist's media.

I do not understand why anyone would want a snug chafing seam directly up their arse crack

Pretty sure women do not come up with these designs. You don't see men wearing them.

most fashion designers, clothes makers, make-up artists, beauty entrepreneurs, aesthetic doctors, beauty & fashion marketing executives, fashion magazine editors are women.

This is 100% not true. Most cosmetic surgeons etc are men. Head designers at a few big clothing names:

Dior - gianfranco ferre (m)
Lv - nicholas ghesquiere (m)
Burberry - daniel lee (m)
Prada - miuccia prada (f)
Chanel - virginie viard (f)
Ralph lauren (m)
Nike - john hoke iii (m)

A huge amount is dominated by men

I've said on a previous thread that I don't think they're a coincidence considering the huge proliferation of anal sex in porn and it's subsequent normalisation in people's sex lives.