Are leggings and dresses back?

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If so, is it different from 12 years ago or whenever it was?

I'm over 50s and don't want to look like I'm stuck in a 10+ yr old trend but I always loved the leggings and shift dress and tunic style.

Or is there an alternative to the leggings? I'm tall and tops are usually too short so wear dresses and leggings instead of tops and trousers.

I wore it a lot pre pregnancy and I didn't even need to buy maternity clothes

Given that some of the stuff that’s considered ‘stylish’ and ‘in’ looking round the trendier chains in town looks like you are a member of the Amish and needs you to be 6ft tall and a beanpole I will stick with the dress leggings and boots combo these days.

I’m not sure if I care it’s in or not but I left the house with black leggings and a tunic today 🤷🏻‍♀️

This picture reminds me very strongly of a Victoria Wood sketch from the 1980s, when she was an aerobics instructor wearing a leotard and ‘footless tights’, which were similarly baggy around the knees and bikini line.

Same. I dont see what the difference is between tights and leggings if you are treated them the same way.
I dont mind wearing them with a normal top (I wear them running so it happens!) but generally I choose to treat them as more of an underwear type of thing.

I stand corrected on the sweaty pleather leggings. Although, and I often hate to see this on this forum, she is skinny and tall and young. If I wore that (and I’m normal weight) but short middle aged it wouldn’t translate half as well.

I stand corrected for a second time although in my defence I did mute them because they seem intent on making Katie Holmes a fashionista despite the rest of the world thinking she’s distinctly average.

Still not sure ski pants are due a comeback nor the Victoria Wood 80s aerobics teacher. I do like the split front trousers but they’ve been around a little while now.

This is often how I feel in leggings! I have some old over the knee boots and that look can veer into Panto very quickly 😂

I still had some in a drawer so tried them out before Christmas but I fear not enough time has yet passed for a comeback.

If you wear them with skirts and booi don't see how it's different from wearing tights?

Do not care a bit as long as no one makes it illegal for me to wear mine

Agree, such bollocks on this thread

Such a load of insulting nonsense on here.

Using 'mumsy' and 'looking like a primary school teacher' as insults.

Style and beauty shouldn't mean following latest trends, it should mean wearing what suits you and what makes you feel confident and happy in your own skin.

But that wasn't the question - it was asking whether they were on trend. You can of course be on trend and look awful or be wearing completely your own style, incorporating trends from a decade ago, and look amazing. You can't pretend though that trends and fashion don't exist when it's a massive, money-making industry.

I live in leggings and long jumpers/tunic tops when I'm not in work. I'm not stylish and I'm not bothered either.

I agree cream style and trends are 2 different things. Interesting that they've tried to bring it back in more of a slouchy ballet kind of way (the link someone posted above).

It was definitely a look. It was when tunic style dresses were in and every dress was made shorter than the current trends. Personally I was glad to be able to buy longer length dresses as I don’t want to have to wear leggings to protect my modesty.
I won’t be wearing them as I prefer longer styles.

Just thought I'd mention that Joseph was ALL long dresses / tunics over wide trousers for AW23. Still doing that look, with a variety of volumes & proportions (I stopped examining Joseph's collections closely because I'm so sad I can no longer shop there!)

I really love that fashion's still pretty much anything goes. It's slightly mad to assert something's "over" - if you keep your eye tuned, you can achieve a current look with stuff you've had for years.

I must admit that I've spent the last hour trying to work out if I could give my gigantic collection of Amazon leggings an ankle makeover, though 😂 Answer: no, they're too stretchy and would just ping halfway up my calf!

Do people actually care about what is in fashion we are here like once in life it's your journey we're what you like, look how you like, be who you like without anyone else saying whether or not it is fashion.

This is the ‘style and beauty’ section.

So yes, people on here really do care about what’s in fashion.

Posters ask a question about something, is it fashionable, does it look ok…and inexplicably, up pops someone that says, ‘it doesn’t matter/wear something comfortable/who cares about fashion?…’

🤯🤯🤯

God what a sad world we live in, before the Internet you'd wear something regardless of whether it's in fashion very sad world

Yes, there was no such thing as fashion before the internet. People just wore slacks and shoes they bought from the People's Friend magazine. It all went to pot when Bill Gates, notorious style guru, came along.

😂

We bought from the Boden booklet, or from the La Redoute catalogue, and pretended we were either friends of Johnnie or Parisians.

Oh gosh this!!

Was this like 20 years ago?? I could not believe it when it happened in our city, literally every mum started wearing dresses over jeans! I remember my BF (now DH) saying at the time that he thought it looked nice…