Look at leggings as one milepost on the road to practical clothing without any gender assignment.
Every female in the country is now wearing black leggings. That's no big deal, but more and more
are wearing spectacular patterned leggings as well. Especially as students return to school and the weather
becomes colder.
Now it's men's turn, and I am starting to see some patterned leggings showing up. They are sold
and worn as a sportswear accessory. Black thermal underwear or footless tights have been common
on cyclists, joggers, etc., for years. Same thing. Nothing you would ever notice. But I saw a
middle-school soccer team working out, and several of them had on what looked like patterned tights
or leggings. Some of the back-to-school flyers from retail stores, inserted into newspapers, had
what looks like menswear leggings. I have seen casually dressed men around the college campus wearing
what is probably athletic or thermal tights with shorts. Same around popular hangouts like sports bars and
coffee shops. So it's no great leap for mankind for men to start wearing leggings in colors and patterns,
rather that just basic black. There is a huge selection available already.
Look at the variety on this web site. 100 pages of designs.
https://society6.com/leggings
Some I would gladly wear, some not. Unfortunately they have them listed in the "women's" category
which is unnecessary and, by now, unrealistic.
For the record, I own one pair of leggings. Black, perfectly comfortable, $6.99 at Goodwill (new, not used).
I have worn them with shorts. Nobody says diddly or even notices. I wore them once on a brief shopping trip
with nothing but a t-shirt which barely covers my ass. Same non-response.
My only complaint about leggings is that they have no pockets!
This really has nothing to do with skirts, except as sort of a parallel situation of how and where and when do we
start wearing what we want to wear without risk of misrepresenting ourselves. Leggings and tights have already
come a long way, baby.
