Leggings Rule the (Fashion) World
10 insanely good reasons to love your black leggings
Jet black leggings:
Cropped. Low. High-Waisted. Ankle zipped… Athletic or athleisure. Haute couture or H & M.
This fashion staple has become so common that it’s exploded beyond ubiquity. Solid black leggings may, in fact, have attained über-ubiquity — “UU” — in fashion status.
UU though this trend may be, black leggings are here to stay — at least, as long as their Spandex-stretch endures within the fickle fashion world.
Further, with the onset of fall, the popularity of black leggings is only set to increase.
Though plaid skirts and argyle patterns have boomeranged back with a preppy ’80’s vengeance, black is definitely back, and black leggings reign supreme.
What make black leggings the fashion choice du jour? Why do we slide them on for aerobics, for appetizers, and for academics alike?
Well, for starters, there’s an endless list of reasons to love your favorite black leggings.
10 Insanely Good Reasons to Love your Leggings
1. They’re black. ‘Nuff said.
Black is fashion’s great equalizer. Black easily hides that extra 15 pounds you may as well keep on since the holidays are right around the corner anyhow. Black slims and trims without the requisite torture and sweat of actual physical exercise.
Not only does black magically reduce your actual weight, it visually reduces your pants size. Let’s face it: in white, your size 8 form would morph into an expansive 12, or at least would appear that way from a safe distance. In black leggings, your size 10 hips and thighs are reshaped into a more svelte 6.
And black goes with everything — especially cake and caviar.
2. No more wrinkles!
You can pick yesterday’s leggings off the floor, shimmy them on, and they won’t be terminally wrinkled — unlike your other trousers. Clingy and black, any wrinkles simply fade into the anatomical landscape. Even if they are balled up and smashed into a vortex of undies, socks, and leggings, you can give them a quick turn in the dryer to de-wrinkle. Voila! Like new and ready to go!
No iron needs to ever touch these babies up. Leggings are your low-maintenance fashion dream — all the looks with none of the drama.
3. Warning: Super comfy zone ahead.
Soft, stretchy, lightweight — your leggings are like closing your eyes and waking up in fashion heaven, where all garments are seamlessly sewn of clouds and sunshine. They’re that ethereal.
After a long day of business slacks slicing into your waistband and jamming up your butt, slipping into your fave leggings is like paradise at last.
4. They’re volatile-y versatile.
Vavoom! They’re so very, very vixenly. Your black leggings can go from a Saturday morning jaunt to the farmer’s market –finding you perusing peppers and parsnips — to a late date night topped with a ruby cashmere sweater, plunging neckline flaunting a flirty camisole.
They’re optimally versatile, and reliably resilient. In a pinch, you can walk those leggings into a legal meeting, blazoned with a tweed blazer over an all-business blouse. Afterwards, toss on a lace bustier with a long, breezy cardi, and head to happy hour with the girls — or boys!
5. Brainpower conservation.
What to wear? There’s really no labor needed to solve this dressing dilemma. Don’t squander a single neuron over your daily decision of what to pull out of your closet. Grab those black leggings, and put your mental prowess to work on other, more pressing problems, like whether dark matter possesses unexplored potential to counter global warming. See how that brainpower can be better utilized? Before you know it, you’ll be saving the world.
6. They really do look good on Every Body.
Skinny. Fat. Scrawny. Pear-shaped. Tall. Short. In-between.
Truly, black leggings fit and flatter all body shapes. Between their camouflaging characteristics and forgiving form, leggings are any girl or boy’s go-to.
7. You just wanna wear them.
Go ahead: indulge your whim. Give into your desire. Slake your lust for comfort, style, ease, and form. Grab those black leggings and slip them on. You’ll feel the release that comes from relinquishing your sense of control.
Trust me: you can give into this urge with absolutely zero regrets. I promise.
8. All about that shape.
Even if you’re hipless, willowy, or just kinda average, there’s something about leggings on those legs that makes them way more… well, shapely. Form fitting and deep black, leggings amp up your leg game. Even non-athletic types seem muscled and toned in leggings. Boyish figures can magically gain heft when squeezed into tight-fitting Nike leggings, and the more voluptuous form enhances its curvacity.
Watch out: curves ahead. And since when is that a bad thing?
9. Age equality.
I know, I know. We’re not supposed to pay attention to what’s age appropriate in fashion. Wear whatever the heck you want is the message. Though that sounds sane in a fashion-empowered sorta way, in practical terms, it doesn’t always work out.
I passed age 40 several years ago, and after 4 kids and an affinity for Chunky Monkey ice cream, I won’t be revisiting butt-cheek kissing Daisy Dukes or neon tube tops anytime in my foreseeable future. But black leggings? That’s another matter altogether.
Here’s one piece of clothing that truly suits any age. High-waisted leggings over an Armani blazer? All day long for me and my demographic. Cropped black leggings with a mini cabled sweater that hits the rib-line with some skin showing? Adorable on my 18-year old daughter. See? It’s something we can all agree on, whether Generation X or Z.
So okay, Boomer: go ahead and slip those leggings on. You’ve earned it.
10. You have 10 pair, anyhow!
Own up and own it: there’s 10 pair of black leggings stacked in your closet right now — probably more! Denim-y in black jeggings, sporty lycra, cropped, lace-edged, twill, high-waisted, velvet, and 3 pair of not-so-plain just black. Those 10 pair are there and need the wear!
So: bust ’em out, slip them on, and leggify with pride! Work that look, and let those leggings loose on the universe. You know you’re rocking them, so share the legging love, and leg on!
