Legging lemmings (leggings for men... with pic!)

The Guardian Unlimited (UK) ^ | 8-4-07 | Alexis Petridis

[GraniteStateConservative]

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Earlier this year, while examining the new rave look, I tried on some leggings decorated with fluorescent harlequin patterns: I resembled a cross between Timothy Claypole and something off the sex offenders register: When Rentaghosts Go Bad. ...

And yet designers persist with male leggings, news of the fact that wearing them makes you look like a cross between Timothy Claypole and something off the sex offenders register having clearly failed to reach their ateliers. On the catwalk, Calvin Klein teamed them with shirts and blazers, the mind-boggling implication seemingly that you should wear them to the office, genital bulge and all. And one commentator said, "Leggings can also be matched with the extreme short shorts trend." You're probably thinking the same thing as me: what extreme short shorts trend? For the sake of all our mental equilibria, I shall refrain from investigating that particular sartorial avenue.

[GraniteStateConservative]

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

One word comes to mind.

[RayStacy]

Groovy?

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Why not just wear sweat pants or pajama bottoms with a sports coat? This is really stupid.

[Red Badger]

GAWD, I can't wait to get out of these fag britches..........

[Giddyupgo]

LMAO....

[Red Badger]

I LIKE THEM!......

[divine_moment_of_facts]

When you think of it.. is not all fashion stupid?

[RichInOC]

[cue James Gandolfini]

"He's a faaaag!!!..."

[null and void]

That’s the fashionable thing to say...

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Looks like something Edwards might wear, if you get my drift.

[Pontiac]

Calvin Klein teamed them with shirts and blazers, the mind-boggling implication seemingly that you should wear them to the office, genital bulge and all.

I guess I will emotionally torn in twain if it is between “genital bulge” of the jet set and “gluteus maximus cleavage” of gang banger wanabees.

[Slings and Arrows]

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[Beckwith]

Leggings for REAL men:

[MichiganConservative]

No.

[ASOC]

ROTFLMAO

Needs a codpiece.

The look is so 80s - 1680s that is.......

[skeeter]

What/whom are these forces that are on an unending mission to humiliate the western male?

Lesbians? Jihadis? Commies?

Someone help me understand.

[johnny7]

Ho-ka-hey...

[vetsvette]

Metrosexuals. The dream date of every feminazi.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Oh puhleeeeeeeeeeze. My friends and I have a saying....

"Wearing Spandex/lycra anything is a PRIVILEGE, not a right."

I know of no red-blooded, macho male who would be caught dead in these things! Yikes!

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

What is that? The Japanese Mens Synchronized Swim Team? ;-)

[lesser_satan]

And you expect me to believe that the fashion world is dominated by homos? /sarc

[OpusatFR]

“(S)He’s a maniac, maniac on the floor,

and (s)he’s dancing like he’s never danced before.”

[glorgau]

Next up, the codpiece!

[CaptRon]

I thought the article said “for men”.

[divine_moment_of_facts]

That’s the fashionable thing to say...

LOL.. And atheism is a religion! ;)

[The_Reader_David]

Actually, 'silly' also comes to mind.

Seriously, if we're bringing back hose for men, let's go the whole way, and revive the mode of dress the settlers at Jamestown were used to: hose and doublet.

I mean, they don't look bad here:

Tell that fellow (or Joseph Smith, for that matter) that he didsn't look manly,a and he'd have see you on the field of honour in the morning--your choice of swords or pistols.

[Lady Jag]

[Slings and Arrows]

What is that? The Japanese Mens Synchronized Swim Team? ;-)

YATTA!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I always wondered about Robin Hood an his gang of merry men hanging out in the isolated depths of Sherwood Forest...

[Nathan Zachary]

All this fashion crap should be banned in the name of global warming, not to mention ending child sweat shop slavery, and other sweatshops/slavery that the fashion isdustry is directly responsible for.

The manufacturing of synthetic materials and dyes is the cause of a huge amount of chemical pollutants, especially in china where the by-products from these processes are dumped in every waterway. Never mind all the jetting around these poofters do feeling fabrics and cupping each other while measuring each others inseams.

Take that you whiney, leftist global warming alarmist fashion fruits. Those hypocrites need to look at themselves before they go pointing fingers at anyone else, and through "global warming" theme fashion shows and telling everyone else to reduce their "carbon footprint".

[Nathan Zachary]

All this fashion crap should be banned in the name of global warming, not to mention ending child sweat shop slavery, and other sweatshops/slavery that the fashion isdustry is directly responsible for.

The manufacturing of synthetic materials and dyes is the cause of a huge amount of chemical pollutants, especially in china where the by-products from these processes are dumped in every waterway. Never mind all the jetting around these poofters do feeling fabrics and cupping each other while measuring each others inseams.

Take that you whiney, leftist global warming alarmist fashion fruits. Those hypocrites need to look at themselves before they go pointing fingers at anyone else, and through "global warming" theme fashion shows and telling everyone else to reduce their "carbon footprint".

[Nathan Zachary]

Wasn’t it the French who were into that look? Sure a few Spaniards tried it out as well, but quickly changed after being laughed off a few battlefields along with the French.
/s

[freekitty]

Kinda of catchy. LOL

[Slings and Arrows]

Kinda of catchy.

Like ebola.

[rogue yam]

Like ebola.

More like AIDS, really.

[ansel12]

You must be thinking of the "old Edwards", have you seen the new "Edwards Version 1.2" ?

[Pablo64]

Leggins for MEN???

NOT!!

[balch3]

the ongoing feminization of America. All part of the Communist goals as elaborated by Cleon Skousen in the Congressional Record years ago.

[Caramelgal]

Anne Boleyn: “Hey Henry, those tights make you look like sooo Gay!”

Henry VIII: “What did you say?”

Anne Boleyn: “No. No. I meant “gay” as in “happy”! Don’t get your codpiece all in a ruffle. What I was trying to say Henry, is wearing those sissy girlie-man tights make you look happy!”

The rest is history.

[Excellence]

Tight tights!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7nAnkkiOKI

[pcottraux]

Kinda catchy!

I kept expecting David Hasselhoff to show up.

[expatpat]

It’s intended to allow homosexuals to display their goods.....

[R. Scott]

One word comes to mind.

Like maybe the apparent sexual orientation of the pretty models?

[darkangel82]

They have lost their right to be called men.

[Dahoser]

Note the utter lack of a legging lemming.

Obviously a different name is in order for this legging abomination.

[britemp]

‘I know of no red-blooded, macho male who would be caught dead in these things! Yikes!’

Really? They look just like the ones American Football players wear to me! ;-)

[metmom]

Nasty.

That should come with a *gouge your eyes out* alert.

[metmom]

Yes.

[GraniteStateConservative]

You should order some for your husband for Christmas before they are sold out.