I can't take it anymore!
Okay, fashion world? Celebritantes? All the semi-drunk sophomores wandering around the university? We have to talk.
This is NOT okay.
I'm not sure what kind of strange time-dimensional warp we've stumbled into lately, but I'm worried. I've been waiting, hoping it was just a blip on the fashion radar. Hoping that it would only last as long as it took people to get themselves to a mirror, and would then fizzle out in a spray of rightful shame and cringing self-recognition. But it hasn't.
Maybe it's all those oversized sunglasses blocking the view.
But.
But.
What kind of mad, mad world are we living in now that leggings are suddenly being mistaken--by otherwise perhaps altogether sane people--for pants? I thought we'd all decided that leggings could only make sense as work-out wear. That the only acceptable way to wear them would be with a sports bra or an oversize t-shirt or a leotard, on your way to the gym or a jazzercise class. Hell, a year ago, it almost appeared that most people had decided that leggings were such an abomination in general that they even stopped selling them in most department stores, exercise-needs or not. And yet now I'm confronted with... with... this.
People, repeat after me: leggings are not, have not, and with best of luck never will be meant to be worn under skirts, unless except possibly maybe you're going for a consciously ironic retro look. And in that case, they best be patterned and funky, missy. But a demium skirt with black leggings? NEVER okay. A tunic with leggings? NEVER okay. (Put on some damn cropped jeans or something!)
Also, leggings under shorts? NEVER, EVER, not even REMOTELY okay.
Look, I know the '80s have been making a comeback, and it's been making me weep. Y'all have no idea how happy I was when the '80s were over. I sighed with relief over the passing away of super-permed hair and neon clothes and leggings under sweaters and thought, "Oh thank God, we'll never have to deal with this again."
And yet. And yet.
I can deal with the leg-warmers: they can be cute. And with a judicious use of some patterns in near-neon colors. And with the oversize earrings. But please, please, for the love of all that is dignified and classy, do not go back to the leggings. I really thought we knew better. I really thought we were over this!
If you are guilty of this travesty, please invest in a pair of nice fitted trousers or pretty understated tights, whichever's more appropriate, and end this gallery of shame. Your children will thank you.
This is NOT okay.
I'm not sure what kind of strange time-dimensional warp we've stumbled into lately, but I'm worried. I've been waiting, hoping it was just a blip on the fashion radar. Hoping that it would only last as long as it took people to get themselves to a mirror, and would then fizzle out in a spray of rightful shame and cringing self-recognition. But it hasn't.
Maybe it's all those oversized sunglasses blocking the view.
But.
But.
What kind of mad, mad world are we living in now that leggings are suddenly being mistaken--by otherwise perhaps altogether sane people--for pants? I thought we'd all decided that leggings could only make sense as work-out wear. That the only acceptable way to wear them would be with a sports bra or an oversize t-shirt or a leotard, on your way to the gym or a jazzercise class. Hell, a year ago, it almost appeared that most people had decided that leggings were such an abomination in general that they even stopped selling them in most department stores, exercise-needs or not. And yet now I'm confronted with... with... this.
People, repeat after me: leggings are not, have not, and with best of luck never will be meant to be worn under skirts, unless except possibly maybe you're going for a consciously ironic retro look. And in that case, they best be patterned and funky, missy. But a demium skirt with black leggings? NEVER okay. A tunic with leggings? NEVER okay. (Put on some damn cropped jeans or something!)
Also, leggings under shorts? NEVER, EVER, not even REMOTELY okay.
Look, I know the '80s have been making a comeback, and it's been making me weep. Y'all have no idea how happy I was when the '80s were over. I sighed with relief over the passing away of super-permed hair and neon clothes and leggings under sweaters and thought, "Oh thank God, we'll never have to deal with this again."
And yet. And yet.
I can deal with the leg-warmers: they can be cute. And with a judicious use of some patterns in near-neon colors. And with the oversize earrings. But please, please, for the love of all that is dignified and classy, do not go back to the leggings. I really thought we knew better. I really thought we were over this!
If you are guilty of this travesty, please invest in a pair of nice fitted trousers or pretty understated tights, whichever's more appropriate, and end this gallery of shame. Your children will thank you.