tight black leggings and big foofy boots

Thanks, Jenny!

The thicker and more opaque leggings get, the less I hate them. I remember some years ago, though, maybe it was before the leggings "comeback"? When there weren't a lot of versions on the market yet so the young fashion things were wearing tights. As pants. This is probably where my real disdain for the whole thing comes from. And now thanks to the lazy and unobservant people described in this thread, we're right back where we started.

I don't know, some of the college girls I see near my office building put way too much effort into the rest of their clothes and accessories to really be THAT lazy and unobservant about their tights. I'm fairly certain its a distinct choice in some cases.

love this look

― dylannn, Monday, January 9, 2012 11:35 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

or big furry boots too. and yeah, a poofy sweater. but not long. want to see some shiny ass.

― dylannn, Monday, January 9, 2012 11:43 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i can't lie, this is all OTM as far as i'm concerned

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_r8O-bvp3zYU/TSNgNaB4oQI/AAAAAAAAAbE/BLimDvoW070/s1600/Olivia-Wilde-Wears-Leggings-as-Pants.jpg

right-hand image: GL
left-hand image: NAGL

Nah, don't like this look at all

Perving by crepes is exactly why I'm so embarrassed for women in translucent leggings. They're basically naked, which would be just mildly unfortunate except for people who actively enjoy someone else's possibly-accidental state of undress.

Oh come on how can this possibly be accidental?!

the overstretched transparency is probably accidental

... is the title of my new spoken word piece

Substitute "processing visual stimuli as males" for "perving by crepes".

No no, that last one prob isn't accidental, obv. Earlier posts were about people in more worn versions that you could see through.

Also frankly the schoolmarm in me can't remotely fathom why anyone would wear these if they realized men everywhere are looking at their asses this way. But I'm a hundred years old and headed for a convent so ymmv.

maybe they are nudists who like to stay a little bit warm

It's the only probable explanation.

I mean, I have never worn tight black leggings, but my sense is that when you put on a garment you have some vague idea of how form-fitting it is. Not to mention that you perhaps own a mirror, or have friends, or any number of other ways that you might be informed of what it is you're wearing and what it looks like. Not to say I haven't worn a few things that looked way stupider than I thought they did, but it'd be kind of hard to wear something that hugs each and every curve of flesh and not just feel that, right? Or are they so tight that they cut off circulation and shut down nerve endings? I dunno.

xpost oh okay, that makes sense then

I think girls wear them becuase they're comfortable tbh! Not nec because they are so form-fitting specifically.

I'm guessing the cameltoe in that last picture is entirely accidental?

Yeah, I think you're right that there's a difference between "these are worn out and became see-through" and "these are really tight and form-fitting," it's just that the latter, in combination with the Uggs (and, yes, usually the long sweater) is a trend right now. So I think the people wearing it know what it looks like, having seen it in magazines/TV/friends, and are totally going for it. But I might just be rationalizing because I think it's so pretty.

But, I mean, I have long been a totally indefensible sucker for Uggs in a way that I can't explain. I think I love the incredible bottom-heavy imbalanced-ness of them, it's this awkward oversizing that I can only compare to Megaman, or maybe to just the 2000s general love of the incongruous join, the massive meeting the miniscule. It's like a LOLcat fashion.

Megaman!

the overstretched transparency is probably accidental

― horseshoe, Tuesday, January 10, 2012 12:02 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm

I'm sorry but I have a really hard time believing all the girls prancing around in leggings worn or stretched so thin that you can literally see their ass cheeks are doing so intentionally. I think most know they're tight obv but not transparent. I think maybe they since they get dressed indoors where the lighting is diff they don't realize exactly how much is on display.

x-posts

Uggs are awful. Always have been and always will be.

I almost can't believe that people still buy them.

yeah I think ENBB otm here, these types of materials can look way different in direct sunlight than they do in a semi-dark bedroom in the early morning

I think girls wear them becuase they're comfortable tbh! Not nec because they are so form-fitting specifically.

― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Tuesday, January 10, 2012 12:06 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Maybe - I still think they are a trend because of the appearance/aesthetic - but would you agree that you'd have to be aware of the form-fittingness if you were wearing them? Again, I haven't worn a lot of these things myself. (i'm male btw)

Baggy ones that give the opposite of camel-toe are, if anything, worse.

xpost

wouldn't you also be aware of it because you've seen a million other people wearing this exact same style?

do nudists even exist anymore? when my grandpa died, my grandma tried to date a little bit and one of her dates took her to a nudist colony, just like in that golden girls episode. the 70s were a wonderful time.

Long sweater would be fine!!! Looooong sweater. One that covers YOUR ASS, FOR INSTANCE. Also that is not camel-toe, that is a NORMAL HUMAN CROTCH, and that is exactly why the too-short top is a problem.

x-post - They do. They're called Germans.

Laruel otm re importance of long tops and also the particulars of camel toe.

In Ibiza last September there were plenty of nudists.

Yes, the reason this look works with the long sweater is that there is something left to the imagination, it isn't all on display. Its like boots and big, baggy sweater are v formless but theres just this hint of shapeliness between the calves and mid-thigh that sets it all off. I don't know, really trying to describe why I like this without sounding pervy and its kinda difficult.

i thought camel toe was just when you can see somones NORMAL HUMAN CROTCH through their cloths

I sort of like the giant moon boot shape in contrast w a close-fitting leg, it's space-suity from the future and/or kind of a super-hero look that I can dig. Those clunky video-game boots are out there, and if people like that look THEY SHOULD GO GET SOME from their local techno goth-serving emporium.

Uggs are just slovenly.

Sometimes though, the long sweater comes off a bit like they were in a rush and forgot to put pants on.

maybe leggings with a too-short top is the closest that puritanical americans can get to nudism

No, camel-toe is when the garment is so tight that the center seam causes a visible vertical separation of the outer genitalia.

I totally had moon boots as a kid! Like this lol:

http://www.moon-boots.com/es/images/l/tecnica_moon-boots_dunkel-blau_dark-blue.jpg

Yeah, camel toe is when fabric gets sucked up in between the lips.

lol

(Let me be clear that I do think it looks gross when the material itself is thin and stretched and you see this diffraction screen of black leggings muddled with whatever the person's flesh tone is, as seen in some of the examples upthread - that is UGH, not UGGS. I just like the idea of a trend where people are into the butt curvature being expressed as a plastic, sculptural composition - the masterly, correct and magnificent play of forms in light, let's say.)

xxxpost yeah yeah - more those kind of huge, overkill mukluk things than the stripped-down hangover Uggs.

Leggings with those boots would be cool as fuck.

Watch out, it will become a trend and we will be backlashing by next January.

I want moon boots again now. I actually slipped on ice and fell on my ass this morning. Maybe I need them. Hmmmmm.

The whole leggings-with-chunky boots thing is the apres ski look, as remy noted up-thread. Those women's ski pants are/were pretty thick iirc, like practically made of neoprene or at least something that wd protect you from cold and ice-scrapes if you wiped out.

The modern interpretation uses way thinner fabrics than those things ever did.

OTM

I think I got those Moon Boots specifically when we went skiing. OMG I just had a weird flashback of my mom rocking the big fur boots with her ski bottoms. You know, the ones that look like Shitzus?

Like this.

http://www.foundmark.com/pers/gallery/parkas/boots/images/boots.jpg

They lived in our basement for years and were always pretty scary to encounter in the dark.

Hahah yes, that's what I was thinking of.

I bought a pair of skinny jeans in comfortable fabric & got them home to find they had no fly or pockets = alas! jeggings!

Super comfy though. I tend not to wear them out except with my longest sweater or oversize flannel. It still feels a little too close to quasi nudity. Short top? OH HELL NO.

I think those boots are a trophy from

http://images.wikia.com/starwars/images/d/d0/SkywalkerWampa.jpg

I can sense big foofy boots, just as I can sense the smell of skunk, or a blinding light in my eyes, and this fact technically makes them "sensual", but this mere fact cannot make them pleasurable.

The girls are just showing their South Bend pride

― mick signals, Thursday, March 28, 2019 1:12 PM (eleven months ago) bookmarkflaglink

underrated

That pic posted represent girls/women I have an aversion to. Not sure about other countries. But here? Yuck.

Which pic?

aw yeaaaaah pinefox is horny on main

want to see some shiny ass