h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I stopped off on my way to work yesterday morning. It was a lovely morning and I had time to stop off and have a short stroll through the trees so I took a 200 yard detour and pulled into the car park to find that there were a couple of cars there and a woman getting her two dogs out of the back of hers to take them for a walk.

Now. As a single man under these circumstances, I allowed her a few minutes to wander off with her dogs. I'm not particularly intimidating, but I didn't know about her and thought I would give her the chance to get a bit of a way down the path, not wanting to appear to be following her. I'm a little oversensitive like that perhaps. And I wasn't about to hurry, it would be nice to have the sun on my back. And that is the problem.

As she walked off down the path in her leggings, the sun behind us revealed everything. And I'm pretty sure that wasn't the effect intended. But I couldn't really chase after her and tell her I could see her underwear. So do I let her go through the day with her pants on show?

What would a gent do?

PP.

And as I hit the 'post' button it occurs to me that I should have left a well worded note under her windscreen wiper.

Damn.

PP.

You can't know whether she intended for the underwear to be visible, or didn't know about it. Were I in your shoes, I would simply hope that no one else saw her.

were I her, I'd prefer to be told.... far less embarasing to have it spotted, one hopes early on, than to wonder about the whole day unknowingly

Why wouldn't a woman at least *check* to make sure her leggings weren't see-through? I've been disappointed in more than one pair of leggings for their transparency. Waste of money. (Although I've considered keeping them for wearing under trousers in the winter. I'm a little too old for leggings anyway.)

your never too old fr leggings! or tights/pantyhos.... IMO

Trust me - - - I am way too old to attempt leggings . . .

I've never worn leggings. Would they even be in my size?

[Considering how much attention gets devoted to whether people are or aren't wearing underwear, bras, etc., I sometimes wonder if I've wandered into Wonderland without realizing it. Really, would anyone *dare* tell the Queen of Hearts [] how to dress?

I met a girl one day whilst buying a train ticket who was wearing inadvisable leggings. These already had several pairs of eyes glued to them. Noticing that we were both buying tickets for Southampton I was slightly tempted to offer to buy here a skirt for the day.

As a gentleman though, all I could really do was to look the other way.

The note would definitely have been the way to go. It would be embarrassing for her but less so than someone telling her in 6 months time after she's worn them every day to walk the dogs

Of course, some people do seem to genuinely not care about these things.

Deb

ahh... ya see I'd never wear leggins on their own... only in conjunction with skirt or dress, were the weather cold enough, if not, of course, stockings or tights work well, under the skirt/dress leggins on their own, are, IMO, reserved only for such things like doing yoga when one nees ... the movement potential

Apparently there's a gender divide here: leggings for men are nonexistent.

Unless you're at a renaissance festival.

Then you can't swing a dead codpiece without hitting a man in leggings.

Okay, good point.

nonsense... I'm a man... sort of... and I wear leggings all the time, come the colder months not sure about those specifically for men, but its relatively easy to size womens sizing for male, so long as one pays attention to height too, and gets appropiately 'tall' sized ones, if your more than about 5 Ft 10 tall; most have a lot of stretch in them anyhow.... My unicorn and rainbow patturned leggins are a perfect fit and the size 16 from H&M fit me, nearly 6 foot tall male, perfect There are specialist online retailers that do tights/stockings/holdups re-sized specifically for males too if one is desirious of such (but its way cheaper to work out your size and just buy female ones oneline IMO ) especially tights/stockings, so stretchy you don't even always have to worry about finding extra long ones if your tall

ooo... Google is my fiend turns out leggings are made specifically for males, in the sports/running line of clothing, by at least a few sports clothing brand names I recognise how odd.... still a bit warm here mind, for leggings per sai.... just ordinary nylon tights today I'm fraid..... but with a pretty butterfly print knee-length dress, and black leather riding boots, and a red beaded top.... and a dragonfly necklace well... off to a pride event I can't really overdress I guess Now just pondering if its too windy out for my purple floppy wide brimmed insane hat attire...

Sports clothing?

It occurred to me that ballet dancers might use them as well. Not that I plan to do "Swan lake" or "Sleeping beauty" any time soon.

A pretty promising start to a dogging story that then seemed to go awry.

Oh... I thhnk he was just bashful to mention what happened when he approached the lady concerned.... As he gently informed her of her clothing error, and then taking his hand, led him through the undergrowth, to a secluded grotto, hidden in the trees... and.......