Baby's first leggings
OK, OK, fine! I have thrown my hands up to the fashion gods and have succumbed to the LiLo-induced trend of...leggings. Yes, I am that girl now. I avoided their siren song for months, pulling on jeans or yoga pants instead. Then, following an unfortunate 6-inch-deep icy muddy puddle incident, my parents kindly bought me these super-cute, waterproof boots for Chanukah (officially my most expensivo shoes ever!), and I have been purposefully puddle-stomping ever since.
The thing is, you need to tuck in your pants, something I have long been loathe to do. So I was clueless until the shoes saleslady showed me the trick: pegging your non-skinny jeans, junior-high-style, and pulling knee socks up over them. Hot. Luckily, I had just snagged myself a so-ugly-they're -cute three-pack from Target (love the strawberries!) so I had that covered.
But after about 36 hours, the whole peg, tuck, pull, repeat ordeal had grown old. I saw a woman (ok, about 500 women) rocking leggings with her boots and I said, "Eff it. I have long legs and a gift card to Lululemon burning a hole in my bedside drawer, let's do this thing."
So I hit Lulu before therapy (just being honest) and the greeter smiled/screamed at me "WELCOME TO LULULEMON! HOW CAN I HELP YOU?!"
"I'm here to buy my first leggings since 1989!" I cheered back.
She actually clapped...which did, I'll admit, make me kind of happy.
After trying on a few, I got these bad boys. And I am not exaggerating when I say I have worn the leggings-and-boots combo ever since. So three days, but still - impressive. I also love the fact that the leggings have a little key/credit card pocket in the back waistband with a white label that reads, "I belong to..." You write your name and number on it, just like mom used to do in summer camp, in case you're out running and something horrible happens. Dan thinks it's morbid but I love it. Like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, I'm a safety girl!
Have you succumbed to any fashion trends lately? Fringey-boots? Boyfriend jeans? Scarves? Share!
Oh, and BTW? You know those shiny spandex leggings that are everywhere now? (see above pic) I SO wore those when I cocktailed my way through grad school. Those puppies always hauled in great tips. Plus, all I needed was a little Windex and a paper towel for easy clean up.
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Date: 01/12/2009 - 01:57 pm
oh sure, if i wear that everyone can see excualty how wide my backside is and count the dimples. they can also tell how much the inside of my thighs rub togeather and how every keeps on wiggling after i stop. no thank you. i wear boots. i love boots. i wear them with a flowing skirt that comes just below my knees.
Date: 01/01/2009 - 01:50 pm
Sweet! My boyfriend talked me out of my first pair of leggings since 1989, he hated the sequins They were Ed Harvy; I don't know who Ed harvy is but he's hugging a lot of hot booties these days.
How do they look?
I recently succumbed to tall, chocolate ugz. They're soft, warm and cannot be worn in the snow or water... cuz they suck up the salt and age beyond their pre-teen years before their time. Yes, boots that are not in the least waterproof.
The Incredible Shrinking Nicole
Date: 12/31/2008 - 11:59 am
I have always LOVED leggings and boots - they are great, IMO. Welcome.
Date: 12/29/2008 - 03:51 pm
I was just thinking about this leggings-with-tall-boots thing YESTERDAY, I SWEAR! I was remembering how I went on this riding boots jag for about two years in high school (and at that point, I'd never been anywhere near a horse...). Nevertheless, on a daily basis I galloped around in big ol' equine nearly-knee-high boots with chunky buckles at the ankle, and (always) black leggings tucked sleekly inside. Only what I wore on top changed from day to day. I felt like hot '80s shit.
And here I was yesterday, pining for that look, bummed out that I can no longer work it because my calves are too thick, even for boots that brag they're "extra-wide in the calf!" Not nearly wide enough, my chipper copywriting friend.
And I had a flashback, too, to a day in a Philadelphia mall, when I was grumpily following an acquaintance around a shoe store, killing time before a meeting we were attending together, when I looked at her legging-covered calves walking ahead of me and thought for a split second, "Well, I may be fat, but at least I'll never be so fat that my legs look like that." This was a very long time ago, and I'd like to think I've grown a lot since then (haha, yeah, laugh it up there, kids, but no pun intended). I'm sure my legs are at least as thick now if not thicker, but you know what? I love my legs more now than I loved my slimmer legs then. I used to hate my legs so much I refused to show them. Just ask my old rock-singer boyfriend who used to grunt, "Why do you always wear black tights over yer legs when you wear shorts? What's with that?" (Luckily, it was one of those New Wave-groupie, thrift shop-trolling, Molly Ringwald-esque looks you could get away with back then.) See, I thought the tights made just the right amount of difference between having fat legs and thin-looking ones. (God, the stupidity! The dysmorphia!)
If I could remember that fat legging-wearing girl's name -- you know, the one I was following around the mall -- I'd tell her right here in public that her chubby little legs are adorable, and that anyone who thinks an ugly, mean thought about them is just terribly unhappy with themselves. I know of what I speak.
Anyway, sorry for the tangent. Viva la legging!
Love,
Kim
Date: 12/29/2008 - 01:01 am
Leggings were my best friends when I was preggo.. a little summer dress with leggings was my uniform. I tried to get into the whole jeans tucked into boots business but I just feel like I'm trying too hard... oh well... maybe I'll try the next trend, but probably not.