Ian Wallace from The Punch, weighs in on leggings this winter.
The website tightsarenotpants.com has gone as far as publishing a manifesto against tights worn as pants and even offers copyright-free templates of a logo and stickers to be used as protest material. Editor’s note: Aussie readers would be more familiar with the term “leggings” instead of tights. “Jeggings” presumably come under the same category.
The manifesto of this group states:
The wearing of tights as pants is an abomination.
Many women spend years trying to find those perfect jeans or pants that minimise their bums while making their legs look longer. And then in one fell swoop they destroy any illusion by wearing tights as pants.
It leaves nothing to the imagination. Some women try to cover up by wearing an oversize shirt or jumper - but if tights-clad butts are hanging out all over the place gasping for air through the fabric then these women are in denial about the state of their body. I am convinced they have removed the mirror from their homes.
Nola Weinstein is Fashion Editor of online website Glam Chic and she says the look flatters about .0004 per cent of the population. Her main problem with tights as pants is that they DO NOT SUPPORT and it is not a pretty sight to walk through a shopping mall and see someone’s bum jiggling all over the place.
Celebrities like Lindsay Lohan, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry have perpetrated the trend of tights as pants, and tights have been showcased as pants on the fashion runways of the world.
Some women reading this will argue that tights are more comfy than a pair of jeans or pants and they also come in a range of colours, patterns and textures. The material and therefore the threads in tights, however, are thinner and wearers seem oblivious to the fact that people can often see through them.
A wander through the streets will confirm that tights as pants are becoming a fashion epidemic but just because a woman can wear tights as pants does not mean she should.
Women who wear tights as pants seem to select one size smaller than they would choose to wear in pants or jeans. In mathematics teachers always stress that if a smaller number is divided by a larger number there is always a remainder. That remainder is an abomination if tights are worn as pants.
If a woman wears tights as pants she must enjoy people gawking at her body parts and assessing her fitness level. Tights as pants are truly eye pollution and possibly a form of public indecency. I hope there is an end in sight as this is one fad I cannot get behind.
Ian Wallace: You won't catch him in a pair of leggings. Fashion faux pas, or are you getting into the trend?
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