Leggings to replace trousers?

April 25th 2009

by Lily Stein

No one can explain why designers and fashionistas love leggings so much. Everyone understands that they are practical and comfortable.

Splendid – Modal Lycra Crop Leggings (Black) – Apparel

To add to this, leggings can be worn with lots of clothing items like dresses, shirts, tunics or men’s suits.

Besides, leggings are sexy and couturiers use this characteristic to make their collections popular as they know that men like watching girls wearing tight leather leggings and high stiletto shoes – that looks pretty seductive and provocative.

Ed Hardy – Leggings-Love Cross (Black) – Apparel

Another reason why women like leggings is that they are much cheaper than trousers. Taking this into account Alexander McQueen and Sass & Bide recommend us to forget about all rules of an office dress code and wear leggings instead of trousers, with short tops and wide jackets.

Kate Leggings

Leggings come in very bright colors and various lengths now, with crazy wild patterns. For example, geometrical-print leggings from Viktor & Rolf, weird colors by Threeasfour or molecular patterns from Karla Spetic.

Kill City Stretch Nylon Leggings

Balenciaga designer Nicolas Ghesquiere created absolutely unexpected version of leggings to surprise the world with.

His first intention was to create leggings from pure gold but then he changed his mind and made leggings of a luxurious fabric similar to gold in color. His work of art is dedicated to the character of Star Wars, a robot in golden armour, and costs a fortune, $100 000.

I wonder how long this love to leggings will last for…