BS: Women and their leggings???????

Subject: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 23 May 18 - 04:10 PM

Now that the warmer weather is here again, why do so many women find it necessary to walk about, or in many cases waddle waddle about looking like chickens by wearing those hideous black leggings?????

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: Senoufou
Date: 23 May 18 - 04:17 PM

I don't like them either Bonzo. They aren't healthy, and as you say they look like chicken legs. I usually wear loose cotton trousers with a long-sleeved, smocky, pretty cotton top. Comfortable in any temperature and decent when in Africa.

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 23 May 18 - 04:18 PM

As long as they're comfortable and happy about themselves, who (apart from you) gives a FF?

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 23 May 18 - 04:18 PM

That was for Bozo, not you Sen!

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: Raggytash
Date: 23 May 18 - 04:27 PM

I have a feeling that Bonzo is on a personal mission to try and upset as many people as possible today.

We have already had disparaging remarks about African, Chinese and Middle Eastern people today. which fortunately has been deleted. (both Senoufou and I commented on it)

Now he is trying to provoke on another, perhaps less risky, subject.

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 May 18 - 04:34 PM

Tell you what, Bonzo. You walk right up to them and tell them what you think.

We'll wait here for you to report back about their responses.

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 23 May 18 - 04:37 PM

Pass the popcorn please....

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 23 May 18 - 04:58 PM

Better a bar of chocolate please!

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: Senoufou
Date: 23 May 18 - 05:01 PM

Oh I think Bonzo has the right to express an opinion surely?

I used to wear a leotard, leggings and those woolly leg-warmer things when I went to the gym and did dance etc. (about a million years ago) They were comfy and stretchy for exercise. However, I don't think they're very flattering for street wear.

But then someone on here (I forget who) once said my husband must look like a right idiot wearing Lycra long shorts and a baseball cap. I think he looks extremely tasty, and he has very firm muscles...sigh... (swoons...)

We all have our tastes in fashion, and it's perfectly acceptable to say so.

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: Nick
Date: 23 May 18 - 05:24 PM

Occasionally reminds me to buy a pack of sausages

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 May 18 - 05:24 PM

Oh, yes, Senoufou, I remember you-know-who taking it out of any man
who would wear Lycra,
there were expletives involved.

It distracts the heck out of me, for some reason,
to see leggings on nubile young schoolgirls.
The things are THAT tight
and they might as well have bare legs,
as little is left to the imagination.

And don't get me started on adult women
who are seriously overweight,
who look like something entirely different than chicken legs,
poured into skin-tight leggings.

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 May 18 - 05:36 PM

Body shaming.

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 23 May 18 - 05:37 PM

But any criticism pales into insignificance when you look at men who choose to wear great baggy cargo shorts. Especially the ones with bulging beer bellies.

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: Senoufou
Date: 23 May 18 - 05:44 PM

I'm elderly and rather plump, so I'd never wear clothes that hug the figure. They only emphasise one's shape. And I do feel that women should at least be decently dressed. I'm not talking about burkas, but showing less is more attractive than revealing all.

I also insist on clothing that is comfortable. Can't bear to be trussed up in tight things.

However, haven't people got the right to wear what they blooming well want? And people also have the right to form an opinion, as long as they don't turn nasty or catcall in the street.

Another thing I absolutely detest is TIGHTS. The Devil's invention. Very very bad for women's health.

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: Jos
Date: 23 May 18 - 06:48 PM

I haven't worn tights for years, but they came as a blessed relief some 50 years ago, after the misery of stockings and suspenders (if the suspenders weren't so tight they hurt, they were not tight enough and fell down - necessitating a quick scoot behind a bush or into an empty church in order to remove them).

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 May 18 - 07:25 PM

Queen Elizabeth apparently feels women should wear stockings; Meghan was caught unprepared in an early appearance with Harry, but now wears stockings. Perhaps once Charles is in charge that silly rule will go away. Pantyhose are The. Worst.

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 May 18 - 07:30 PM

I care not a jot what I look like when I'm out and about and I care not a jot what anybody else looks like either. Up to me, up to them.

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: Donuel
Date: 23 May 18 - 07:36 PM

as long as the law requires us to cover our nakedness, whatever does the job is fine with me. Fashion is either a disguise or disguised classism.

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 May 18 - 07:46 PM

André Leon Talley on fashion.

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 24 May 18 - 12:46 AM

I think bonz is on a nostalgia trip today.. earlier it was 1970s comedy race relations...

Now it's a yearning for mini skirts and hotpants...???

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 24 May 18 - 01:48 AM

"However, haven't people got the right to wear what they blooming well want?"

Precisely my point in my first post, Sen! I often see people, both male and female, wearing clothing which, IMHO, is unflattering, but it's their right to wear whatever they feel comfortable and happy wearing. Nobody's business but theirs, and certainly not a reason for others to bully them by body-shaming. As an ex-fatty, that sort of abuse appals me.

My own uniform, since I retired and binned the suits, ties, and 'formal' shirts is T-shirt and shorts in summer, and T-shirt, jumper/fleece and jeans in winter. I'm a happy, comfortable bunny, and I don't give a toss what anyone else thinks about my appearance. It does help my confidence that I'm five stones lighter than I was back in 2005! ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: Senoufou
Date: 24 May 18 - 03:52 AM

Oooh well done Backwoodsman for losing all that weight! Good for you!

I know that Steve has said on here in the past that, like me, he hates being trussed up, and likes loose, comfortable clothing.

I had to giggle at the term 'panty-hose'. I'd forgotten that's what they're called across the Atlantic!

If the Queen has a 'rule' about women wearing stockings/tights she needs to get a grip. Blinking cheek.
I used to have to wear a liberty bodice as a child. And I remember suspender belts. Thank goodness women and girls have far more freedom now to choose which clothes are comfy and express their personalities!

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 24 May 18 - 04:06 AM

Is this "Be kind to the village idiot" week?
I can't believe a mod allowed this misogynist thread posted by a terminal troll to exist for five minutes
When I think of the serious subjects we can't discuss thanks to thread closures..... Jay-sus
Has this forum really sunk his low?
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: Mr Red
Date: 24 May 18 - 04:17 AM

got anything to say about people who dress all in red?

They won't care wot U say. They is happy in their skin, which is a little on the reddish side.

disguised as a newspaper (since you asked).

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 24 May 18 - 04:42 AM

I thought a newspaper was black, white and red all over?

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 24 May 18 - 04:48 AM

Aha, my band dressed in red for a while in the 60s - we thought that as Lord Sutch's Savages wore bright orange shirts in between periods of leopard skin outfits, wearing red might attract more gigs. We got a few at a Labour Club in Watford!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: Senoufou
Date: 24 May 18 - 07:27 AM

I smile when I think of what I wore as a student. We were all hippies then. I was always in a full-length flowery dress (actually a nightie from Littlewoods!) topped by a very long black crocheted waistcoat, Jesus sandals (de rigeur) and my very thick hair (which I could sit on) braided into two massive plaits, intertwined with coloured scarves. Round my head I had a decorated band like a Native American, with a jaunty paper flower stuck in.
Summer of Love and all that eh?
My Norfolk neighbour would have said, "Yew must ha' looked a roit dolly mawther!" (not a compliment - translates as "You must have looked an absolute prat mate!")

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: G-Force
Date: 24 May 18 - 08:13 AM

There is a vast amount of personal opinion posted on Mudcat, so why is this post worse than many others? Whether or not I agree with the sentiments expressed, I see no reason to get so upset about them. Frankly, some restraint in the language used throughout the Forum (not just this thread) would be good.

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 24 May 18 - 09:20 AM

It's called body shaming, G-Force, and should not be tolerated. Some people are very sensitive about their appearance and, in extreme cases, have committed suicide after having such comments thrown at them online.

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 24 May 18 - 09:58 AM

Perhaps bonz would feel more comfy wearing this
on hot summer days...???

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: Senoufou
Date: 24 May 18 - 01:13 PM

Hahahahaha! A mankini!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Women and their leggings???????
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 24 May 18 - 01:17 PM

Why should you care about what women wear? Or what the shape of their body is? Or what fashion choices (or lifestyle choices) anyone makes?

My personal opinion is that high heels damage the body and I think it a foolish choice to blindly follow fashion in that way, but I'm not going to belittle anyone who chooses to wear them. I also think that white or light colored bathing suits look silly (or, at best, I don't find them as attractive on a person as a bolder color). As do ball caps worn backwards. And the intentional showing of underwear as a fashion statement.

Don't you have anything better to complain about?

Linn