My sister reported that someone in the grocery store was wearing pajama bottoms. I saw someone with both pyjama bottoms and slippers in the grocery store last week. A younger person, definitely no older woman would do this.
In my thinking, older women don't wear bottoms, we wear pants. That distinguishes me in the class of older women.
I saw a Reitmans store window advertisement a few months ago. The sentence was: "BOTTOMS ON SALE". It was amusing to see that I might change my bottom for someone else's. I went in to see what bottoms all included, I found a lot of different kinds - and leggings was central among them. They do have shaping qualities, so maybe that's a valid promise.
The introduction of "stretch" fabrics in the 1960s meant that stockings/nylons and garters/girdles became pantyhose. Stretch fabrics were "elastomeric." Spandex won out among all the types and most often is branded as Lyrcra.
So I consider that the underwear of the 1960s has evolved into the streetwear (outerwear) by the 2000s. Along the way, Audrey Hepburn and Debbie Reynolds in the late 1950s, Olivia Newton-John and Debbie Harry in the 1970s and Madonna in the 1980s - our celebrities set the standard for office workers by the 2010s.
There has been societal debate about whether leggings are clothing on their own, which can be worn without covering, or are an accessory only to be worn with other items covering them, such as skirts, dresses or shorts. When I was working, executives wore suits - men and women. They dress up. Even informal looks formal on them. Aspiring executives "followed suit."
It is those middle professionals who stretch the dress code towards the comfort and casual. Are leggings part of business casual - that is still being debated.
In a 2016 poll of its readers Glamour magazine said that 61% of its readers thought that leggings should only be worn as an accessory, whereas an article that same year from Good Housekeeping concluded that "...Leggings do, in fact, count as pants—provided they are opaque enough that they don't show your underwear.
Are there leggings jokes? Not really. Here's one in the list if you consider all legs:
What's green, has 4 legs, and could kill you if it fell out of a tree? A pool table.
And my picture of the day? It turns out that leggings have got into everything - there are all kinds of ways to represent your art at Redbubble. From Brian's Lilycrest Garden lilies images to Cherry blossoms at Vineland Research.
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