Seriously Ladies, Leggings are NOT Pants

As we approach the harsh winter portion of our Bostonian collegiate experience, I implore you: stop wearing leggings as pants!

I am baffled that it is even an option to just wear leggings under a shirt. It is not flattering to anyone. . They just stretch over all the wrong places, either resting on your pelvic bone and creating an odd tent-like space or accentuating your belly fat in the worst way.

Also, leggings create a sort of bizarre asexual look for your lower frontal region, and while wearing them you slightly resemble the front bits of a naked Ken doll. From behind, leggings don’t do much better. Cellulite is a reality, even in college and leggings are so thin and so stretched that often times they will only highlight your cottage cheesy thighs. Nobody wants to look at that, it is not attractive and doesn’t need to be flaunted. Also, the people walking behind you don’t need to be exposed to the all too intimate outline of your butt. Come on now ladies, lets leave something to the imagination.

Where has this horrible trend even come from? Yes, Lindsay Lohan has a line of leggings but is an educated drug addict whose life peaked with Mean Girls the kind of example that the young bright women of Boston University want to be looking up to? It would be more understandable if someone who was an actual fashion icon promoted this trend, but I have yet to see Tim Gunn having express any confidence that leggings can in fact, “make it work.”

But forget the aesthetic downfalls of leggings as pants, and think about the practical issues. As most of you

know, winters in Boston can be harsh and much of our wintertime suffering is a direct result from the unrelenting  chilly winds. These winds make our fingers and noses burn and oftentimes makes our eyeliner and mascara run town our faces in tear-tracks as we are walking to class. Wearing leggings in this kind of environment does not protect your body from the cold the way that it needs to be protected. Unlike and nice thick cloth of corduroy or denim, wind and moisture can go right through leggings. This cannot only make you colder while you are outside but it can dry out your skin and create lasting discomfort.

On a side note, it has recently come to my attention that there is a new fad breathing life into this leggings craze. Apparently now there are leggings painted (or possibly actually stitched) to look like jeans. This is utterly ridiculous. If you want to look like you are wearing jeans then wear JEANS. There is no shortage of denim in America. If I saw a person on the street wearing these, “jeggings” I would laugh, or cry…I haven’t decided yet- please don’t make me.