why do girls wear leggings?

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• jet@hackertalks.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3057320/

  I get to go old school with this reference. Basically male and female circulation systems act differently in cold weather. Men tend to keep blood flowing to all their extremities in cold weather, women tend to keep your core temperature consistent and reduce the flow of blood to extremities.

  So men don’t feel as cold, but they’re burning more energy, and their core temperature can dip more. Women feel colder, but they’re core temperature is more stable, and doesn’t dip as much.

  In real life we experienced this as women are often colder in the same environment men are comfortable in. Because of physiological differences in blood flow during cold weather events.

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  • NounsAndWords@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This makes sense. But it doesn’t explain why I have to wear a jacket and pants to work everyday while the colder-extremities-sex wears sleeveless dresses.

    I feel it would work better for everyone if we all switched to long, flowing, wizard robes (short or long sleeve optional) in all professional fields.

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    • TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Bring up your dress code with your employer. Tell them you are concerned it is not inclusive enough. My boss very quickly added that the pictures are just guidelines and if it falls within the office appropriate “business casual” guidelines then it’s fine. Our dress code genderless and allows for cultural clothing even though it didn’t specify that.

      I agree with the robes though. Summer climates especially require a more Middle Eastern type clothing. Light layers, light colours, and lots of airflow.

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    • jet@hackertalks.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2NNm8MTboA

      Human culture is weird. Just go with the flow

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The weird part is that all the men used to wear them.

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  • Plopp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Men back in the day wore such hose.

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  • jet@hackertalks.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well that’s just dandy

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    • lando55@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Flourish the pinky!

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  • emptyother@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My leg hairs itches just looking at them.

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    • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You get used to it and then stop noticing. They’re so comfy.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m sure they were warm though.

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• TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because they’re warm.

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  • XaeroDegreaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Regular pants aren’t?

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    • theKalash@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I wear them under the regular pants when it get’s really cold.

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    • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I should clarify I’m a guy and I don’t think I’ve ever worn tights. But I think some trousers can feel colder than tights (because tights are close to the skin and trap a tiny amount of heat) but obviously would be colder than a thick pair of trousers, particularly ones that block the wind. However the fashion is for ladies to get their legs out, wearing tights does this while being warmer than bare skin.

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• ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because they’re comfortable and practical!

  I can’t stand the feeling of loose things around my legs like pants. They either have to be tight like leggings, or free flowing like skirts/dresses/baggy shorts.

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• theKalash@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not a girl: I regular wear stockings in winter. I really don’t like being cold.

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• Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fashion aesthetics, either by choice or as part of a uniform/etiquette. They are practical in winter as they are warm. Also prevent chafing on people without a thigh gap. They help shape legs and lower belly too.

  I don’t like wearing them though.

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• Klear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Guy here - borrowed some from my mum for a LARP and they were super comfy. I kept them afterwards.

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• cubedsteaks@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Everyone says being warm but I only wear them out of comfort. I walk a lot to travel cause I don’t own a car and leggings are comfy for walking in. I even wear them during the summer.

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  • Vupperware@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’d imagine they help with chafing thighs!

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• angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why not? This is also a genuine question. What is puzzling you about girls wearing leggings? Are you wondering why they don’t wear jeans or some other kind of pants instead? If yes, the answer might be: a) fashion changes all the time and this is in now and b) leggings are usually made of very stretchy fabrics, which makes them much more comfortable than form-fitting trousers made of more traditional textiles.

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  • chrizbie@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well the truth is I recently started a job at a high school and the female students mostly wear skirts, of them about half of them wear dark stockings and I just ¯_ (ツ) _/¯ I dunno I just wondered what they do but looking through the comments it totally makes sense that they’d add a layer of comfort particularly in colder months, when I realized I also wear a tight pair of thermal pants sometimes then it became clearer as well

    Not that anyone has to justify wearing what they wear I was just slightly curious is all

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    • chrizbie@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I suppose also, there was likely a time before modern textiles when wearing a skirt that was durable enough for every day use could have been pretty uncomfortable

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    • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      When in comes to combination of leggings and skirts, I think many women also feel safer and less exposed with legging under their skirts. Active girls and women don’t have to think of their movements wearing leggings under a mini-skirt or a lightweight fabric skirt.

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• atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Our clothes are often made of thinner material than yours. Ever look at the difference in the thread weight of a man’s tshirt vs a woman’s tshirt? The same honestly goes for pants. Plus, leggings and tights give us the benefit of a layer that can be worn not just under pants but under dresses, shorts, skirts etc especially in colder months.

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• pumpensumpf@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I only wear sports leggings occasionally for exercise, so I can’t really represent the view of women wearing leggings as pants in everyday life, but I guess the main reason is that they’re very comfortable (unless they’re shapewear). I would compare their comfort level to sweatpants.

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• ryannathans@lemmy.fmhy.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You get to show your ass off whilst still wearing something

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• JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  All I know is it’s the greatest thing that’s happened in my life when women just started wearing them in public all the time.

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• Resol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’re basically fashionable, at least for now.

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• leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because they want to?

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• Maddie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’re super comfy!

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• Callie@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’re just super comfortable , typically soft and I don’t have to worry about constantly adjusting them because of how snug they are

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• h_a_r_u_k_i@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No.

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• banana_meccanica@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because they 're fat and insecure girls and they want skinny and sexy legs

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  • hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you got some repressed emotions this is not the place.

    And for the people in the back: we don’t. Lol.

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  • avonarret1@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Do you ever feel the need to think before you utter some nonsense or are you just humankind’s next step on the evolutional ladder back to a single cell organism?

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  • Norgur@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Do you sometimes wonder why none of the "fat and insecure girls" wants to even talk to you? Just asking because the rest of us here doesn't wonder, we know why that is.

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  • oldGregg@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    U r fat looser and u have body odor

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  • sour@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    ._.

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• Behaviorbabe@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  1. as a style choice/looks more professional with some outfits if you mean tights
  2. to keep people from looking at my legs
     3)so I can safely wear a dress/skirt (see #2, incidentally or not)
     4)warmth/comfort

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