From Slate-
Among some fashion observers, leggings have been regarded for a while now as the “new jeans.” For years, American consumers have been buying less and less denim in favor of stretchy, sleek “athleisure.” In 2017, imports of stretchy knit pants exceeded blue jeans
for the first time. Accommodating and comfy, the stretchy pants created
for exercise are now the downtime uniform for the modern woman.
Leggings won.
So why haven’t we stopped fighting about them? This week, a
new skirmish in the leggings war erupted in South Bend, Indiana, where a
churchgoer named Maryann White wrote a letter to the editor
of the Notre Dame student newspaper after sitting behind a group of
young women wearing “very snug-fitting leggings” at a Catholic Mass.
White, the mother of four sons, was moved to contemplate the impact of
this “unforgiving garment” on the moral development of her sons. “I’ve
heard women say that they like leggings because they’re ‘comfortable,’ ”
she wrote. “So are pajamas. So is nakedness.”
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