Straw poll - will you be wearing leggings under dresses this summer?

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I hope this is still acceptable!

Dresses are so, so short everywhere!

Leggings mean I don't have to fake tan and keep me warm!

Will you be wearing leggings this summer?

I'm going out today and I'm wearing tights/leggings/whatever-they-are-called - just something thick and warm - with a dress and a bloody thick winter coat and my snow boots. And my scarf and gloves if I can find them. What's with this weather!?

I think, as with anything, it is down to the wearer and the way clothes are worn. I have seen clothing that is fashionable on people, but it doesn't mean it or they look good necessarily, yes some, but not all. I would wear a dress over leggings for the record. Dress to suit your body shape and how you like.

I don't think the leggings look, looks good on anyone, even Daisy Lowe.
Wear them for comfort but they do not look great.
Same as the calf cut off trousers.

No. I have not owned leggings since I was about 12. I am 35. Leggings are horrid.

I can't wear cropped trousers, but I have seen tall girls wearing them and they look good, again because of how they're worn, or what they're worn with.

i do this, i think it looks nice, didn't know it was a fashion crime :o

and i have quite good legs as well

Not sure why the pro leggings-under-dresses people care what the anti-leggings people think! Just do it and enjoy, there is no right or wrong.

I don't wear them, because I don't like the bulky feel of the waistband (prefer flatter bad of tights) but do not see a problem with them whatsoever.

But I am certain that some of the things I wear might not meet approval by other people, but it just doesn't register, you know? It's only when things like this turn up on S&B that everyone's knickers get in a twist.....look, a massive amount of people are wearing them to dresses. The British weather is shit. Please don't be put off by what appears to be a minority of opposition. I'm sure the anti-leggings brigade wear stuff you'd hate too! Just wear your leggings and feel good about it.

The passion aroused in some posters here just makes me more scared - whatever I wear, there will be people passing me in the street judging me and being horrified.

You have to cultivate a little more faith in your own judgement. Why suspect you are wrong and the others right? Wear what makes you happy :)

BTW, if someone is 'horrified' by you wearing leggings to frocks, I highly doubt the problem lies with you.

(sorry for hogging thread!)

toasted, I don't care. I dress for practicality and comfort over style. If that upsets the fashionistas, so be it. At least I know that, while people may look at me and think "scruffy/frumpy/dated", they will never think "OMG what was she THINKING!!! Aarghh my eyes!!!"

I love being only mildly interested in looking half decent and living in the country. Leggings and dresses will continue to be more than acceptable round here for ever, but even if they weren't I'd wear them because they are so comfy, practical in the blowy changeable weather and IMO attractive.

I will be doing it. I have done for a long time and I think it suits me.

Teaching uniform = dresses / tunics and leggings. 3/4 length with sandals in summer, long with boots in winter.

Or linen trousers (woollen in winter) blouses / T shirts and cardis.

95% of my colleagues wear similar.

I do have a couple of long summer skirts that I wear without leggings when it gets really warm. Ortherwise practicality will out.

I wear leggings in bed as pyjamas, and to run in.

So no, I don't wear them under skirts or dresses, regardless of whether it's fashionable to do so or not. Black does not go with everything.

Yes, because, although I have well shaped legs, I have psoriasis, and hairy legs which don't cope with hair removal on a regular basis. Oh and I'm really pale, and look stupid with a fake tan. So I choose not to expose blue and red blotched legs covered in black hair to the world. I live in Scotland, so wear boots all year really. I'm not sure that unless you were looking closely, you could tell the difference between black leggings and black tights.

i will, because i like the look at its warm and practical

Toasted I like your post, what I tried to say, but yours makes far more sense!

Tights or bare legs - no leggings !

I have, I will and I will continue to regardless of what other people think
I usually wear tights with dresses but once sandal season starts tights look a bit silly with them and I don't see the point in footless tights -surely they are just opaque leggings?

The thought of living in the country brings me out in hives for this very reason

What ev's - I will wear what I like - I live in a deeply untrendy village and if my chunky legs are better clad in tights or leggings and therefore less likely to scare the locals with my pale-ness over muscled calves and burgeoning varicose veins then - result - Dresses these days are often too short for me or full skirted and prone to flying up while chasing children around and bending over - it is not just about what looks good when looking in a mirror - practicalities come into it. I like cycling but cycling in a dress without wearing leggings is for me a definite No! And I do like wearing dresses.

I don't get it when posters say they live in the countryside and are therefore exempt from fashion

I grew up in the countryside and we all loved fashion and any excuse to get tarted up was relished. My mum lives in the sticks and is always really well dressed. There is a weird image conjured up of people who live outwith cities living in Barbour jackets and wellies and being covered in mud the whole time - not true where I grew up, and it wasn't posh countryside, just normal.

As I have lived in several cities, small towns and now a village (not posh) - my observation is that city dwellers are more 'trendy', fashion conscious pretentious - The teenagers here follow trends like anywhere - but I really don't see the attention to detail here in a village - that I saw in London from the older working people. That is understandable - I cannot afford to slavishly follow fashion - I wear what I have discovered over the years and many painful mistakes - what suits. So do most folk.

I live in the countryside and I do live in jeans, wellies and a Barbour jacket. So do half of the village.

It's just practical for dog walking ect. Even walking around the village requires wellies unless we get sunshine as foot paths etc are usually muddy. We don't have pavements round here.

I do it all the time, as I'm 6ft 4, and dresses are never long enough for me.

I don't give two hoots whether it's unfashionable or whatever, nor do I care what others think about it, if I'm comfortable then screw what anyone else thinks.