Leggings

[roppal222]

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[i_<3_chanel]

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MONSTROUS !

 

[veronicaUSA]

I have a pair

from the 90s and they are cute if they hit the calf but full length legging as justified by the photos shown above are

 

[ilovepositano]

omg

wait does the bottom left one count? i think she's running a marathon?

kelly osbourne is too freaking funny.

 

[veronicaUSA]

i changed my mind

they look ugly , i mean it has that 90s soccer mom look about it , its not sexy at all. tights belong in the gym.

 

[shopsmuch]

haha those pictures are HORRIBLE! thanks for the laugh.

 

[twin star]

credit: Wall Street Journal

Designers are bringing back '80s-style leggings

Teri Agins
Feb. 3, 2006 12:01 PM

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The next big fashion trend is destined to have legs.

Designers are betting women will make room in their closets for 1980s-style leggings, stretch pants and opaque pantyhose. As New York Fashion Week gets under way Friday, these skin-tight styles will be the focus of many designers' fall collections, including Narciso Rodriguez, Nanette Lepore, Donna Karan, Tracy Reese and Wolfgang Joop.

The leggy look is part of a "mushroom" silhouette that designers are pushing for next fall - fuller on top and slim on the bottom. On top, designers will be showing "dolman-sleeve" sweaters that are wide on the upper arm but narrow at the wrist, tunic dresses, knee-length peacoats and long jackets.

The embellished and colorful "bohemian look for the past season is so over," says Ms. Lepore. "It's time for a cleaner touch."

How widely the new look will catch on remains to be seen. Boomers may shudder at the memory of '80s-style leggings so tight they looked sprayed on, paired with oversized sweaters or sloppy T-shirts. But designers say they are going for a sophisticated look this time around. Back then, leggings were made of cotton, spandex and nylon and were prone to pilling and losing their stretch, especially in the knees.

Now, leggings, stretch pants and jeans use improved fabric technology that retains their stretch. Having perfected figure-molding "shapewear" undergarments, manufacturers are offering innovative blends, such as microfiber, cashmere, rayon and nylon, which give leggings and stretch pants a structured and polished look that they didn't have previously. (Even leg warmers - for the street, not the gym - are making a comeback, thanks to additional Lycra sewn into the top and bottom to prevent them from falling down.)

One promising sign for retailers: The look has been easing its way into the mainstream for more than a year. It follows tight and slim-to-the-ankle "skinny jeans" worn by hip, young women in London and Manhattan who tucked them into short and tall boots.

Now, tight jeans have "morphed into skinny leggings," says Julie Gilhart, Barneys New York fashion director. Last fall, Marc Jacobs, Anna Sui, and Dolce and Gabbana were among the designers selling tight pants, both long and cropped, and leggings. The trend was in full swing on the haute couture runways in Paris last month, including white mini-dresses over black skinny pants and boots at Chanel and shiny, footless tights under billowy dresses at Jean Paul Gaultier.

"For me, the skinny look is a directional change. It just feels right again," says Mr. Rodriguez, who will show pants in stretch fabrics with leaner legs and voluminous coats and jackets on Tuesday.

Hosiery makers are hoping the leggings trend will coax bare-legged women back into hosiery for the first time in nearly a decade. With women dressing more casually in capri pants with bare legs, hosiery sales had dropped 12 percent to $2.76 billion in 2005 from 2003, with sales of tights plunging 26 percent to $109.9 million in 2005 from 2003, according to NPD Group Inc., market researchers.

The leggings trend already has boosted sales at hosiery maker Kayser Roth Corp. where sales of its Hue brand "footless tights" tripled in the last quarter of 2005 from a year ago, says Alison Hessert, Hue's spokeswoman. For Fashion Week, both Hue and Wolford will supply designers with free tights and leggings for their runway shows. Hue models will dress in black parkas and miniskirts to hand out "Fashion Week Survival" kits with navy sweater tights to show guests on Monday.

"I love mousey-gray opaque stockings - a leg that is sexier than last year, when I had no stockings in my show," says Mr. Joop, whose Wunderkind-label runway show is Thursday. The effect, he says, "looks like a strong, modern, practical-thinking woman, who is walking, not riding in a limousine."

The return of leggings is a classic example of the fashion cycle repeating itself. When designer jeans were launched around 1978, styles became progressively tighter over the years, leading to the Guess brand "Marilyn" jeans with zippers at the ankles. Stretch fabrics exploded with the 1980s' exercise boom, when leggings, white athletic shoes and baggy tops replaced jeans as the casual uniform for most women.

In the 1990s, flared-leg jeans and wider pants came into style and over the past four years, $100-and-up low-rise, boot-cut "premium denim" caught fire. Designers infused them with stretch and in recent seasons introduced more styles that were narrower in the legs.

As more women wanted to show off their embellished, colorful boots, they began rolling up their jeans - a look that celebrities such as Jessica Simpson helped popularize.

For Karan, putting leggings and tights on the runway allows her to come full circle to the launch of her company in 1985. "A bodysuit and heavy tights were the foundation of Donna's collections," remembers Patti Cohen, her longtime spokeswoman. For fall, Ms. Karan is showing ribbed tights, wool leggings and skinny pants "for the first time in years," Ms. Cohen says. The collection will include longer jackets meant to be worn over the leggings.

And while retailers hope that trendy customers will splurge on a vast number of the new styles, more women are likely to make a few strategic purchases to update their wardrobe rather than revamp it, says Nina Stotler, a consultant at fashion-trend forecaster Peclers Paris North America in New York. Leggings and opaque stockings can be had for under $20 - making them an easy, but inexpensive, purchase. For example, Hue's cotton, spandex, nylon and microfiber "sweater" tights are $18 while Wolford's "velvet-deluxe" nylon and elastane leggings are $38.

"The narrow-leg pants they are talking about for the fall seem pretty cool, and I bet stores will have them for a lot less than they are selling those $150 designer jeans now," says Debbie Turner, a 41-year-old, middle-school teacher in Atlanta.

Retailers aren't overlooking mature women who may be intimidated to wear leggings and miniskirts. Saks Inc.'s Saks Fifth Avenue plans to position the styles as an updated look reminiscent of Karan's earlier designs. "A woman can put on black opaques with a longer jacket or a slightly shorter skirt just above her knee, and she's feeling covered up, but she's still part of a generation," says Michael Fink, women's fashion director at Saks Fifth Avenue.

Designers also are pushing more than just leggings and stretch pants in order to cater to today's eclectic tastes. Lepore, for one, is hedging her bets this fall. She says she is "playing with the volume" on the runway, with new wide-leg pants with fitted tops and as well as pencil leg pants and tops with fuller sleeves. "In the real world, women still want options," she says.
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[veronicaUSA]

hmm

well tight pants have always been there , Tom ford has been doing them for years but they never caught on till now because it is unflattering to most of the population but , now a days the concept of fashion has changed its about individuality people have vast taste , one day a person might one to wear leggings and a big sweatshirt in the day and wide leg trousers with fitted top in the evening, thing is everything goes now , its just a matter of taste. but leggings , though i was wearer of them in the 90s..regret it.. are very well look at the above pix and you know the answer hehehe

 

[Kimkhuu]

Excellent article twin star! Thanks a lot for posting!

 

[Kimkhuu]

I am sure tights/footless tights/leggings is going to make it even BIGGER during the fw 06.07 shows... It's ironic that big designers are doing it, although it is getting very trendy...



Not that I have anything against it when it's done in an elegant way!

 

[AnaisF]

I love the way Mk wears them...like so:


Unfortunately, I think this style can only be carried of well by very skinny people...which is quite annoying, because it can look quite good sometimes.
(pics from proboards70.olsens)

 

[DENiSSA]

I love tights, and I refuse to let the fact that they've been adopted by fashion victims dictate whether or not I will wear them. I think that, when worn properly (sans denim mini and off the shoulder sweat top) they can still be unique and cute.

exactly..i also love how designers are projecting various ways to wear them..


roppal222
thanks for those pix too..lol




and what do u guys think of the the ones with the lace trim on the bottom? i think they look cute when they accent the lace on the outfit your wearing

 

[veronicaUSA]

lace legging trim

well...though i dont wear leggings anymore esp after those photos , but i would say the lace trim leggings look good , if you wear it with a victorian bloouse voluminous like a black legging ( hits the calf not full legging ) and pair with a white shirt or something like they did at YSL it looks nice .

 

[Mettchen]

the sari gueron collection just got me thinking of these leggings from veronique branquinho s/s02

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[Kimkhuu]

^ Those are leggings!? Maybe it's me who has trouble seeing properly but they look like they're too loose to be called leggings no!?

 

[Kimkhuu]

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[Kimkhuu]

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[Mettchen]

^ Those are leggings!? Maybe it's me who has trouble seeing properly but they look like they're too loose to be called leggings no!?

i'm not entiry sure that they're leggings (though on kelly osbourne they probably would fit like leggings as we know them ). but i really have no idea what it is then ?

 

[Kimkhuu]

i'm not entiry sure that they're leggings (though on kelly osbourne they probably would fit like leggings as we know them ). but i really have no idea what it is then ?

Well maybe the top 2 may be leggings, but there's not enough lighting in the pics to really tell....

 

[AlmostFamous]

I see a lot of people posting pictures of footless tights...I personally dont consider those leggings.

Just throwing it out there.