tight black leggings and big foofy boots

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

Aesthetically Uggs are not too great but damned if I'm not crazy envious of women wearing tall Uggs with skirts while waiting for the train on very cold days. The look so warm and soft. I also assume these women change into normal shoes when they arrive at their destination.

And I'm not sure I'm any better looking in my flats or non-Uggs and long socks or leg warmers over tights or leggings.

my opinion is this is a good look because i like ass

http://www.geekologie.com/2011/09/28/wampas-1.jpg

aahahha

omg

ahahaha

i used to rock the big furry boots (not uggs more like mukluks) look 10 years ago but people still wore skirts and pants back then.

remember those boot cut black stretch pants everyone wore at the end of the 90s?

yes! they are indestructible, btw; i still have two pairs of them that i wear to work out when i haven't done laundry in a while.

ha i got a pair at lerner that i still wear to bed/gym

they were the occasion for some mom-like tsking in my head the last time i went out dancing and the 21-year-old girls were wearing very very short dresses. i was like, at least, in my day, when we went dancing, we wore pants! i just feel like how can you even dance in a micro-mini? /mom

I saw a girl at a nightclub wearing those underpants-looking hotpants & got the vapors

Funny thread! I bought my 7 year old niece a pair of Uggs for Christmas and that's where they belong, on Children. When I last went to Austin, T and I saw endless girls wearing baby T shirts with leggings and dress shoes. It's sort of embarrassing. A long shirt or sweater yeah, but one girl's shirt fell above the top of her leggings.

I worked in a University that seems to be particularly well known for its annoying students a few years ago and around 08-09 every other girl was walking around wearing tights as leggings (with nothing long over the top). They also wore PJ bottoms in the gym. I pretty much turned into my mother overnight.

I really hate the fashion industry for basically forcing me to wear leggings due to 99% of dresses in regular shops that I like being too short to wear without.

They also wore PJ bottoms in the gym

lol that's nothing. I went to a stoner hippie school for a while and a lot of kids would go to class literally wearing what they'd gone to bed in. One of my professors actually had to tell a class that they needed to dress/wash themselves before coming to her class. NB - I never did this.

ha, I came v v close to the brink of going to the corner store in my PJ bottoms over Christmas to get hangover food. I had to have a long hard think about things after that.

if i can't go to the gym/store in my lounge pants, i don't even want to know what other rules i'm violating

Oh, I think lounge pants are OK. Like, yoga pants? I've changed out of PJ bottoms into those when going out in public which really isn't that much of a diff but nobody needs to see my flannel PJs imo.

thank you this trend

flannel pjs in public is the worst imo.
a gaggle of teen girls came into the place where I get my lunch wearing pj bottoms, uggs, tiny tank tops & with the worst birdsnested sideways bedhair...I was like "Did you come here straight from a gangbang? Jesus, put some clothes on."

none of that bothers me at all -- if people smell, that's one thing, but general slovenliness is a person's right

in teenagers it disturbs me. brings out my dormant mom-gene

that pjs and uggs thing not so much slovenliness as a pretty carefully cultivated look. on campus in the summer or fall it's usually running shorts and a sorority t-shirt with running shoes. like every. single. day.

I remember back in lolcollege that tons of people, male and female alike, would wear those snapaway track pants everywhere. I'll cop to owning a few pairs, but they never left my dorm or apartment.

Wear what you want outside. I usually just go for comfort or utility.

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxlua2THei1qay8jfo1_400.jpg

whyyyyyy

Always thought this combination was a total fire hazard.

That is a very satisfying image.

That's what happens when Werner Herzog invites you to a barbecue

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iH_7k3UjGpk/ThaHKZ5j1JI/AAAAAAAAAaE/mTVJe8AL2Jc/s1600/burden1.jpg

Today is one of those Chicago winter days that I would gladly suffer your mockery for warm, Uggs-clad feet and calves.

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.

Yeah, it gives off a very '2000AD' type silhouette. Reminds me of Halo Jones or something.

http://www.2000ad.org/images/page/halojones.jpg

http://thedailywh.at/2012/01/17/pajama-pants-parish-of-the-day/

Many xxposts to Jenny: I got a pair of those Levis 512's you mentioned upthread...omggggg so comfy! Love!

Yay! I had to wear an old pair of Lane Bryant jeans this weekend and I was so grumpy about it. Pajama jeans forever!

tight black leggings and boots are a bad look 50% of the time and pretty awesome the other 50%

unfortunately the difference is completely within my prejudices so it's probably better to avoid it

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.

For me, of course it makes me think of:

http://0.tqn.com/d/animatedtv/1/0/-/3/leela.jpg

She only gets away with the short top cos she's a CARTOON.

Also, UGG boots are the best hilarious practical joke Australia ever played on the rest of the world, seriously >_<

my opinion is this is a good look because i like ass

― goole, Tuesday, January 10, 2012 2:11 PM (1 week ago)

duh

Even when it is obese flabby ass with visible undies and cellulite? =)

ass is ass Trayce

I will never understand men.

don't forget flat saggy cycling nanna ass in spandex (sans foofy boots tho)

i saw a whole GROUP of girls wearing tight black leggings like pants today. but they were all running, so weirdly they didn't look like they weren't wearing pants. not even when they stopped running at the crosswalks.