It seems that women *the teens and early twenties variety especially* seem to forget that leggings are not pants. They are leggings. A hybrid between tights and pants. Therefore you should always remember one thing: cover your ass! Ladies, regardless of how nice or well scuplted you deem your derriere, please cover it when wearing leggings.
Too many a time have I walked behind a young woman on the metro and seen the exact shade and shape of her underwear through the bum she presented to me underneath her leggings. It’s not a view I particularly enjoy with my morning coffee. I don’t want to see it, and while there are some who do, please for the sake of the rest of us keep it off the public metro and streets by just doing me one little favor: cover your butt.
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Carolynn Markey
September 18, 2013hah hah. SO TRUE. Great outfit. You rock those leggings…and thank you for covering up your bum 😛
Joanna Haughton
September 18, 2013Thanks. And you're very welcome. I don't like to share those bits over your morning cup of coffee either.
Logan Cantrell
September 18, 2013Thank you. Just, thank you. haha I'm so sick of seeing leggings with short t-shirts. It is so unattractive.
Joanna Haughton
September 18, 2013agreed. It's a bit much I think.
Jessica Gehman
September 18, 2013Cracking up and nodding at this one! My husband came home from the grocery store looking like someone had poked him in the eye a few days ago, there was quite a lack of butt coverage at the foodstore on a Sunday morning!
Joanna Haughton
September 18, 2013Glad to make you smile. I get where he's coming from.
Alyssa
September 18, 2013Amen, sister!
Joanna Haughton
September 18, 2013🙂
April McLeod
September 18, 2013Awesome outfit! I'm growing to love the leather look that's trending this season. And I also appreciate the butt coverage. 😉
Joanna Haughton
September 18, 2013Thanks. I've loved leather for so long and it used to be so hard to find fun pieces, but now it's everywhere and I'm like a kid in a candy store. And yes, always butt covered.
Martha Woods
September 18, 2013Great outfit! Very rocker. 🙂 I have been semi-mooned too many times to count by girls in leggings. Oy!
Joanna Haughton
September 19, 2013oh yes! I understand!
versatilestylebytracey.com
September 18, 2013Love this look and keep on educating those youngsters!
Joanna Haughton
September 19, 2013Thanks.
Rachel
September 18, 2013I 100% approve this message. 🙂
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Joanna Haughton
September 19, 2013It's Rachel endorsed 🙂
Amanda Cobb
September 18, 2013Yes! I 100% agree. Also, you are rocking those leggings. In the appropriate way, of course.
Joanna Haughton
September 19, 2013Of course 🙂 Thanks.
Sian Thomas
September 18, 2013Yaaay thank you!! I agree with you! Although that's not the worst of it…apparently some girls wear tights as pants?! In one of my friend's big lectures at uni, a girl walked in with a crop top and a pair of printed tights – you could see her underwear straight through them – very worrying!
Sian xx Rebel Angel
Joanna Haughton
September 19, 2013Oh my. That's a cause for nightmares. How is that not a obscenity thing. I mean you can't walk into some place in your underwear.
Colleen
September 18, 2013You look awesome in this!! And yes, I don't want to see a butt. It makes me crazy–I want to yell, "you're doing it wrong!"
Joanna Haughton
September 19, 2013EXACTLY.
Cody Doll
September 18, 2013oh that is soooooo true. I hate people who forget that. I also hate people who wear nude leggings. I seriously always think they are nude. It's just not cool, period.
By the way you are HOTTT. Whew. Love your outfit today.
Joanna Haughton
September 19, 2013Nude leggings. Haha! Yes, it looks like they're naked and then you avert your eyes, but you glance back bc you aren't sure whether they are or aren't. It messes wit my head.
Shannon Rice
September 18, 2013haha – great advice! I wonder when everyone will catch on?!?!
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Joanna Haughton
September 19, 2013Soon, hopefully?? *wishful thinking*
LuceBuona
September 18, 2013Yeap, spotting a pair of leggings barely covering someone else's underwear is definitely not something that goes well with your morning coffee! And it get worst when taking the electric stairs!
On a bighter side of things..great outfit! 😉
Joanna Haughton
September 19, 2013Exactly. And thanks.
Kendra Castillo
September 19, 2013haha I love this advice!
Joanna Haughton
September 19, 2013Thanks.
two birds
September 20, 2013agreed!! i love your outfit. the pocket detail on your shirt is so great!
Joanna Haughton
September 22, 2013Thank you. I love a good pleather detail 😉
Renae of Simple Sequins
September 20, 2013hahahahahaha, O I know! I saw this nice looking, slender, long haired, beauty at a public venue last year and I could see EVERYTHING (front and back). I wanted to take her to the side and say "Lady, you leave nothing to the imagination here and I'd strenuously advise you to go home and wear something that covers up your bumm". But of course, I didn't and she wondered off into her world showing her stuff. dang.
I love how you have done this ensemble, Joanna! You have inspired me again in how I can wear my bomber. ah ~ nice.
Joanna Haughton
September 22, 2013That's what I'm talking about. It's a bit much I think. And it plays into the sexualization of women and the propagation that our most important assest is our body and beauty.
And so glad to have inspired you!
Debbie Stinedurf
September 21, 2013I could not agree more…that is one of my biggest pet peeves! I don't know what I like more about your outfit, the jacket or boots. Totally cool look!
Debbie 🙂
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Joanna Haughton
September 22, 2013Thanks Debbie. I appreciate the positive and enthusiastic feedback. Glad you love the jacket.
Chelsea
September 23, 2013Serrrrrrriously!!! This is one thing I cannot stand. I'm so happy someone's spoken out about this 😉
Joanna Haughton
September 25, 2013Hahaha! I'm adamant about this.
Kimberly Bonham
September 23, 2013Great advice! I love your boots and your blog!
Joanna Haughton
September 25, 2013Thank you. So glad you like the site 🙂
Lena B, Actually
September 27, 2013Yeesssssss!
Thanks for linking up for Passion For Fashion… hope to see you tomorrow!!
Joanna Haughton
September 27, 2013uh-huh!
Gingham Ginger
October 4, 2013Agreed. Grade schoolers do this as well. It makes my heart sink.
Gingham Ginger
October 4, 2013Agreed. Grade schoolers do this as well. It makes my heart sink.
Joanna Haughton
October 19, 2013Oh that's heartbreaking.
Tahitia Belle Fille
October 18, 2013I was talking with a friend of mine on another website earlier about leggings and I mentioned your advice here as a good rule of thumb. She suggested also wearing a pair of 60 denier pantyhose the matching colour of your leggings underneath, and how even though it adds a bit more bulk it also gives you a bit more security if you ever have to bend over. I thought that might be a good idea 🙂
Joanna Haughton
October 19, 2013Anything that keeps your privates from being exposed in public I think is a good idea. It's just that not everyone wants to see it, and exposing yourself should be done only when you want to, you know? Like a sexy corset for your hubby. or someplace where it's a conscious choice.
Tahitia Belle Fille
October 19, 2013Absolutely yes! The conscious choice is the important part. I can't think of anything more mortifying than exposing yourself to a room full of people without you even knowing it.
Joanna Haughton
October 21, 2013Absolutely mortifying.
Tahitia Belle Fille
October 18, 2013Also the other day I was BG on a family show and even though I DID bring a sweater that covered my bum to wear with a pair of leggings the woman from wardrobe ended up putting me in a shirt that just went to my waist.
Being just a lowly BG I couldn't say no but when I put the outfit on in the change room I actually thought to myself "Joanna would be so disappointed in me if she saw this" 😉
Joanna Haughton
October 19, 2013Oh you're so right! I'd have kept you in that longer sweater.
Leeds
October 22, 2013thank you!!! i just dont know why people don't get that tights are not pants. it's such a big problem down here in SoCal.
–Leeds
at this volume
Joanna Haughton
October 23, 2013Ugh, it's so frustrating.
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