I own a pair of black jeans that aren’t jeans, because they are leggings.
More specifically…Jeggings!
Take that, fashion police!
And for immediate release: black pants don’t make you look thinner.
(Every damned fat woman I see wears black pants. :smack:)
Okay, I love leggings. The look of long top or tunic over leggings is one I really like. And I still have some leggings left over from the 80s! (Well, I was a little slow. I think actually I bought these in the early '90s. Whatever. Yes, I have clothing older than some of my kids.)
As to horizontal stripes, it’s win-win. Either you look fat, in which case people can say, “Well, but she’s wearing horizontal stripes.” Or you don’t, in which case people can say, “Wow, even in horizontal stripes she doesn’t look fat!”
Really, sometimes it’s counterintuitive.
No, I meant the overstuffed sausage roll that the jeans turn your butt cheeks into, not the muffin top over the waistband. 
I don’t think that I even OWN a pair of black pants any more. I’ve got a pair of cobalt blue, and a pair of cocoa brown, but I didn’t replace the last pair of black pants that I threw away.
I do think that wearing darker colors on the lower half of the body makes a person look not as bottom heavy. That is, black pants won’t make a fat person look as fatassed as a pair of white pants in the same cut and fabric. Won’t make him/her look THINNER, just not as fat. And it’s a very, very rare woman indeed who needs for her bottom half to look wider.
Leggings are really not going to make you look fatter. They might not be flattering, necessarily, but in general they have a slimming effect.
If they’re the right kind of material and not too tight, they can even smooth out certain imperfections. By which I mean bulges.
Now I usually wear them with a top that comes at least down to my hips. Or if the top is shorter, then with a long jacket. But I also wear them in the dance studio, where there are a lot of mirrors, with a shorter, tighter top. They look okay. They aren’t going to make me look like my years-ago sylphlike self, but they aren’t awful, either, and they’re a lot better, at least on me, than those wide-leg yoga pants.
I once read an article that said you can tell alot about a man by his choice of dog. I fit the catagory of men who like mutts. I’m willing to accept a dog or a woman just the way they are, flaws or not, and that includes fashion. this is funny to me cause my daughter dresses our three dogs (all rescues) up with home made outfits. 
And our Italian Greyhound reminds me of a woman in leggings.
people with real problems arent worried about others pants. consider yourself lucky that youre shallow
Sure you can. It makes you look like you have really long, floppy bunny ears. All the rage in nightclubs these days.
Depends on what’s more important in the woman’s life. Comfort or providing eye candy for strangers?
I did that for a while, then I got bored and went to see what was new at Poorly Dressed.
Well, I dunno. Whattaya gonna do? It can be a real trick going out in public without seeing something unpleasant these days.
All the clothing looks too tight to me and way too few people who wear it are the svelte bodies it seems to have been designed for. In my state 25 % of our youth are obese and supposedly they are the least heavy of our nation’s youngsters. Amazing.
The only way I can put a positive spin on it is to think that perhaps today’s young people are less self-conscious about their bodies than forty years ago. If true, that would be a good thing, no?
Women dress for each other, honestly. I specifically meant leggings as pants, matched with a short shirt. It ruins the mystery.
Ohhhhh. You’re absolutely right. It certainly is a problem unto itself 
they also dont care about grammar or punctuation either so their man
or spelling or making sense