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Lifeisbeautiful3
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Not sure how to interpret this. Teach respect and custody of the eyes. Leggings aren’t the problem…
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Allie1
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I think leggings are a problem. As a fashion trend they’re hideous. I think only about 1% of the female population can pull them off so they look somewhat attractive in them. Everyone else looks like stuffed sausages.
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Soubirous1
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i can’t even stand tight socks so there is no way leggings are comfortable. it’s just more look at me fashion. 20 years ago our priest had to mention to the ladies that some of them were wearing inappropriate shorts to mass and they did listen.
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Irishmom2
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I agree with you. Custody of the eyes.
The real reason I dislike them has nothing to do with men young or old looking at them, but rather I just find them to be boring and uninspired as far as fashion goes. Clothes have become streamlined so much that there are no interesting details left. That is why I like vintage clothing, the details in the collar, the pockets, the way a pleat or a dart charges the look of the article of clothing.
Leggings, like tee shirts, and sweatpants, are just uninspired and “meh” looking.
The real reason I dislike them has nothing to do with men young or old looking at them, but rather I just find them to be boring and uninspired as far as fashion goes. Clothes have become streamlined so much that there are no interesting details left. That is why I like vintage clothing, the details in the collar, the pockets, the way a pleat or a dart charges the look of the article of clothing.
Leggings, like tee shirts, and sweatpants, are just uninspired and “meh” looking.
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ThomasMT
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c4csp
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They are a problem. There needs to be modesty. Women should not be wearing clothing that reveals the curves of their body in that way. Men have a duty to have self-control and be chaste, but women have a duty to be modestly dressed.
Tis_Bearself
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This story is a year and a half old, and had a 76-post thread on here already when it came out, as well as several follow-up threads over the news coverage of the story, and how the young women responded by wearing even more leggings in protest.
Mom pleads with Notre Dame female students to stop wearing leggings, sparks Catholic News
She told them leggings were too suggestive, so they wore them in protest World News
She told them leggings were too suggestive, so they wore them in protest—- Catholic Living
If you don’t like leggings, don’t wear them.
If you don’t like leggings on other people, then don’t look at the other people, because we don’t get to control what everybody wears in this world.
Not sure why we are having the discussion about this old story all over again this year.
If you don’t like leggings, don’t wear them.
If you don’t like leggings on other people, then don’t look at the other people, because we don’t get to control what everybody wears in this world.
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EmilyAlexandra
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I have always seen this as a problem with Islam, and I am now beginning to see that it is also a problem with Catholicism. I would be very wary of joining a religion that prescribes how I am allowed to dress.
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Peeps
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My daughters grew up wearing leggings from the time they were 3 years old–they started figure skating early, and still figure skate in their 30s, and leggings are the “uniform” of figure skating. Tights are worn during competitions and tests, but the “tights” are actually Mondors, which are actually a flesh-colored legging-like garment.
EVERY girl/woman, and many of the male figure skaters wear leggings in practice and competition. The skating rink is full of children, teens, and young women walking around in leggings.
This type of clothing is necessary for figure skaters to make them more aerodynamic–even a small piece of clothing flapping can make jumping more difficult, and for that matter, can interfere with the other elements of figure skating like spins, footwork, and in synchronized skating, the various holds and lifts.
MANY other sports wear a form of leggings, including football, although the “leggings” generally end at the knee, but not always.
I can certainly see not wearing leggings meant for sports when you are not doing the sport. I can also see saving the “workout” leggings that you wear for aerobic exercise, pilates, yoga, etc. for the gym, not church or out-and-about town–they aren’t meant for everyday wear.
But I find a pair of plain black leggings that are not “form-fitting” with a dressy long tunic-like t-shirt or long-sleeved button-down shirt very attractive, and I wear this all the time to church, including when I am playing piano/organ. I wear this to perform when I am with a choir or with my music partner. I don’t think it could be “arousing” because the long tunic or shirt covers my rear end. To me, this is no different than wearing a pair of panty hose or regular hosiery (with a garter belt) and a dress over the top–!!! Same outfit, only the leggings/tunic have less chance that the wind will blow the skirt up and reveal too much.
And speaking probably more frankly than some of you can bear–leggings are a God-send for stopping the painful chafing that sometimes happens if your thighs rub together!!!–and this can happen even with thin women depending on how God designed their individual anatomy.
As for women who look like “stuffed sausages”–I would be careful making comments like that. Around 42% of Americans are obese, and many more are overweight, and there is no reason why large women should have to wear mumus, shapeless dresses, baggy slacks, and long-sleeved baggy tops to “hide” their bodies. And some women who are of a normal weight have bigger legs/thighs–should they avoid a very comfortable fashion trend just because some people have problem with those big thighs?
EVERY girl/woman, and many of the male figure skaters wear leggings in practice and competition. The skating rink is full of children, teens, and young women walking around in leggings.
This type of clothing is necessary for figure skaters to make them more aerodynamic–even a small piece of clothing flapping can make jumping more difficult, and for that matter, can interfere with the other elements of figure skating like spins, footwork, and in synchronized skating, the various holds and lifts.
MANY other sports wear a form of leggings, including football, although the “leggings” generally end at the knee, but not always.
I can certainly see not wearing leggings meant for sports when you are not doing the sport. I can also see saving the “workout” leggings that you wear for aerobic exercise, pilates, yoga, etc. for the gym, not church or out-and-about town–they aren’t meant for everyday wear.
But I find a pair of plain black leggings that are not “form-fitting” with a dressy long tunic-like t-shirt or long-sleeved button-down shirt very attractive, and I wear this all the time to church, including when I am playing piano/organ. I wear this to perform when I am with a choir or with my music partner. I don’t think it could be “arousing” because the long tunic or shirt covers my rear end. To me, this is no different than wearing a pair of panty hose or regular hosiery (with a garter belt) and a dress over the top–!!! Same outfit, only the leggings/tunic have less chance that the wind will blow the skirt up and reveal too much.
And speaking probably more frankly than some of you can bear–leggings are a God-send for stopping the painful chafing that sometimes happens if your thighs rub together!!!–and this can happen even with thin women depending on how God designed their individual anatomy.
As for women who look like “stuffed sausages”–I would be careful making comments like that. Around 42% of Americans are obese, and many more are overweight, and there is no reason why large women should have to wear mumus, shapeless dresses, baggy slacks, and long-sleeved baggy tops to “hide” their bodies. And some women who are of a normal weight have bigger legs/thighs–should they avoid a very comfortable fashion trend just because some people have problem with those big thighs?
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27lw
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Well, leggings can be a problem. It really depends on what one wears over them.
Pretend they are opaque tights (which they basically are). Would you wear a tunic that barely covers your bum?
Leggings and a bum-skimming tunic are basically the same look as tights and a short short minidress.
For people who wear them as if they were pants, well, yeah there’s no hope for them…
Pretend they are opaque tights (which they basically are). Would you wear a tunic that barely covers your bum?
Leggings and a bum-skimming tunic are basically the same look as tights and a short short minidress.
For people who wear them as if they were pants, well, yeah there’s no hope for them…
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0Scarlett_nidiyilii
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Leggings with a dress or tunic are very cute.
Legging with normal length shirt, not so much.
And most of the people I see doing this are simply not skinny enough to make it work.
Sorry.
Check the mirror before you leave the house.
OTOH, I’m glad to be seeing less of the low rise pants, because I’m so sick of seeing other people’s butt crack.
Not a good look.
So between the two I’d choose the leggings any time.
Legging with normal length shirt, not so much.
And most of the people I see doing this are simply not skinny enough to make it work.
Sorry.
Check the mirror before you leave the house.
OTOH, I’m glad to be seeing less of the low rise pants, because I’m so sick of seeing other people’s butt crack.
Not a good look.
So between the two I’d choose the leggings any time.
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27lw
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I think your comparison to the low-rise pants is the “fallacy of relative privation”:
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0Scarlett_nidiyilii
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LOL you’re prolly right 
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lonegreywolf20
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Not sure one needs to be skinny enough to wear them.
I myself prefer a curvy person in leggings over someone who could be deemed thin, but I would never tell a thin person they’re too thin to make them work. I just simply prefer larger women overall.
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heidi_storage
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Boorrrring thread. I should make up a problem that involves my neighbor trying to steal my baby, or something like that.
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ExtraordinaryGrace
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Female gross immodesty has been steadily increasing in America since the 1970s. Few women participated in the aerobics craze that allowed for this kind of lewd dress. Then came in-line skating, and now yoga. This dress is sadly purposefully used to extort women who are now dominated by the market and not their families . . . .
To be a Christian is to believe in modesty and being chaste. . . . No decent Christian woman should dress like that and today whether Protestant or Catholic. . . . The more people align themselves with liberation theology, which is indoctrinated at places like Notre Dame, the more they will behave in this manner. It’s utterly barbaric. These same women will struggle with finding a spouse that isn’t addicted to pornography and possibly even shame the man not considering how she regularly dresses in the street. They will also experience other problems in life because of a basic lack of modesty. This is truly a major societal issue.
To be a Christian is to believe in modesty and being chaste. . . . No decent Christian woman should dress like that and today whether Protestant or Catholic. . . . The more people align themselves with liberation theology, which is indoctrinated at places like Notre Dame, the more they will behave in this manner. It’s utterly barbaric. These same women will struggle with finding a spouse that isn’t addicted to pornography and possibly even shame the man not considering how she regularly dresses in the street. They will also experience other problems in life because of a basic lack of modesty. This is truly a major societal issue.
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TC3033
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I have no issue with leggings. Honestly one of my favorite things for my wife to wear. 
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heidi_storage
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Huh, I just said this was a boring thread, but a reply that moves easily from aerobics and in-line skating demonic outfits to liberation theology is mildly amusing.
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Allie1
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I think it’s amusing that you took my comment about stuffed sausages as being a comment about obese people. Thin normal weight people look like stuffed sausages in leggings. It accentuates cellulite, cracks, camel toes, skin folds, skin dimples. All of which thin people also experience. And they look like stuffed sausages
And no I am not saying that obese people or thin people need to wear shapeless bags for clothes
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