Join the Tights-Are-Not-Pants Movement

tights are not pants

By now I’m sure you’re well aware of my opinion on leggings as pants, which has always been, and continues to be, a very solid Nay. The whole Oops-I-forgot-to-wear-trousers! look flatters about .0004% of the population. If you are in that miniscule subset, you should definitely stop wearing them because flaunting your membership card to the cool kids club is just so ’02.

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Anyway, as was recently pointed out to me, apparently I’m not the only one who feels this way. A few of my fellow haters have founded the genius website Tightsarenotpants.com which outlines—with hilariously exquisite precision— the many cons associated with the style. Even better though, are the postcard-ready PDFs you can download to help spread the word about this important anti-tights movement. Do your part and check it out.

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COMMENTS (2)

  • RSM 09.27.08
  • Wearing leggings (which are usually more opaque than tights or pantyhose) is very comfortable and people look great wearing them. Many like the form fitting feel of wearing leggings. The fit is right when the fit is tight. When wearing leggings you don’t need any underwear and I advise people to pull them on all the way up for a “glove fit.” You don’t need shorts or a skirt over leggings, they are fine on their own.
    When you do wear leggings, choose a well made pair – not with cotton fibers that bag out over time but a high tech fiber that retains its shape. Get over the body image constraints and just wear them. Go for the comfort and support. Leggings that go to the ankle have a greater positive visual aesthetic than capri style that chop the leg. Plus the full length leggings support you from your ankle to your waist and give you an energetic lift.

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  • Mary Nicole Porter 11.23.08
  • You guys are gay….stop wearing tights as pants, its silly, its stupid, its not right, its an abomination!!

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  • Denise 12.16.08
  • TIGHTS ARE NOT PANTS

    Please people, wear a skirt over those tights. Your tackyness is blinding me.

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  • PWAHAHAHjordanne 04.06.09
  • LMFAO.
    abomination?
    Because I am wearing tights as pants, indeed, I shall begin genocide.
    On a race called nontightwearingions.
    Sound good?
    1. Tights… are indeed, not pants, they are tights.
    2. It juusttt fine if you wear a big shirt…
    3. are we including leggings as tights because if so leggings are justt fine to wear ‘pant-like’ but the see through tights worn liiikkkeeee pants are fine to wear, you’ll just be made fun of. A lot.
    4. I do not believe tackyness can possibly blind you. and if that was a joke…
    Well, I’ll be blunt. That wasn’t funny. it was ignorant.

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  • lo 05.15.09
  • okay well i wear leggings with big mens plaid shirts and i have a biiig ass and thicker thighs, men love me in leggings and the girls can hate men love seeing women with curves in leggings. girls who hate r jealous. i think u need curves to wear them, skinny girls look even more twiggish in them! ouch :)

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  • ali 10.30.09
  • seriously, guys. it’s not that tough. tights are NOT pants and should never be treated as such.

    It makes me sad when girls forget their skirts and just wear a t shirt with leggings. They look so woefully misinformed.

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  • Kitt 11.07.09
  • hm, so tights are NOT pants, =] I agree. Some people dont read. if tights are not pants you do not wear them as pants, with a large dress sized shirt, they are not worn as pants, with a normal sized shirt, the ends on you hips, that is called wearing them like pants. my main problem with tights as pants is that they DO NOT SUPPORT! It isnt very nice to walk down the street and see someone’s arss jiggling all over the place. Y.U.C.K.

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  • Jeebs 04.09.10
  • haqikah,

    Tights do not conceal ANYTHING…

    Girls we can see every lump and crack, and that is not cool. Infact I like to call them “Mumble Pants” cause you can see the lips moving but you can’t hear what they’re saying…

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  • scatcat 04.21.10
  • This is hilarious!!

    I feel bad for those girls who try to pass off tights as pants. It’s obvious that they don’t grasp the art of dressing – hey it does take practice!

    I was once undecided about this issue until that fateful day I wore tights as pants. Thankfully I wouldn’t let myself out the door.

    Tights do nothing for your derriere! You need proper material to support this region. It doesn’t matter how skinny or curvy – tights are unforgivable to even your best assets. Especiaaalllyyy if you have a skinny ass. My God! You are pretty much telling the world that you have no ass and you’re proud of it??

    I only speak on this because at my workplace – restaurant – waitresses are trying to pass black tights and a black T-shirt as a uniform. I mean seriously! If you had any common sense you would know this is not appropriate for work.

    Do yourself a favour and buy some real pants!! You won’t look back. :)

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  • random person 10.14.10
  • if you are skinny, certainly you can wear anything and it will look good. if you are over 50kg (assuming average height 165cm), wearing a legging or tight alone only makes you look like a turkey

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