tight black leggings and big foofy boots

Back up there aldo. The teachers are just wearing leggings or they're wearing them under a skirt or something?

Just wearing leggings - long-ish tops to cover their modesty (almost). Malvern is a classy place.

Oh my friends live in Malvern (unless there's more than one?) it's lovely!

Or maybe Malvern Hills?

I saw the worst example of this morning. A young woman was walking around in the thinnest oldest leggings I've ever seen (with a short top/jacket) and she had, well, an extremely large and, um, interestingly shaped behind and the material was stretched so thin that you could pretty much see all of her naked ass cheeks AND HER CRACK. It was not good, it was not good at all. I know that this is not a popular opinion with some people who would say that you should wear whatever the fuck you want to wear regardless of whether or not it looks good on you but I still think there's something to be said for knowing what enhances or flatters your figure and anyway OLD STRETCHED THIN MATERIAL THAT IS PRETTY MUCH NOT COVERING SHIT IS NEVER A GOOD LOOK. It was so bad people were staring. Where are this girl's friends? Someone needs to pull her aside and give her some real talk imo. It was that bad. She was also wearing Uggs.

I SAW STRANGER CRACK BEFORE 9:00 am. I was not prepared for this tbh. I think I have PTSD.

PCSD though I think.

Yeah, maybe that's it. It was bad.

no undies? sounds horrid!

Nope. No an undie in sight.

I saw the worst example of this morning. A young woman was walking around in the thinnest oldest leggings I've ever seen (with a short top/jacket) and she had, well, an extremely large and, um, interestingly shaped behind and the material was stretched so thin that you could pretty much see all of her naked ass cheeks AND HER CRACK. It was not good, it was not good at all. I know that this is not a popular opinion with some people who would say that you should wear whatever the fuck you want to wear regardless of whether or not it looks good on you but I still think there's something to be said for knowing what enhances or flatters your figure and anyway OLD STRETCHED THIN MATERIAL THAT IS PRETTY MUCH NOT COVERING SHIT IS NEVER A GOOD LOOK. It was so bad people were staring. Where are this girl's friends? Someone needs to pull her aside and give her some real talk imo. It was that bad. She was also wearing Uggs.

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Friday, 8 November 2013 15:43 (2 hours ago)

that's a whole lot of words before you drop the uggs into it

Well, obviously The Uggs were not the main issue here but I felt the need to point out that they were part of the ensemble so as not to deviate too far from the original topic at hand.

i'm not so sure this phenomenon is really such a great aesthetic crime in the general instance, but insofar as the asscrack-hugging rizla thin leggings were a faux pas, adding the uggs is like the eichmann prosecutors finishing off with 'and he also kicked a kitten twice', not the most heinous of the crimes but it sort of contextualizes everything else

Yes.

also "rizla thin leggings" a+

'too sheer'

http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/new-complaints-on-lululemon-website-about-yoga-pants-pilling-too-sheer-1.1524992

riding boots & tight jeans paired with a natty blazer cant ever get old

that is definitely more of a look this year than the leggings

I'd make fun of riding boots that have never seen the side of a barn before but I wear motorcycle boots so I probably shouldn't throw hay.

Well, it's the same thing with people who wear Uggs here in Los Angeles.

I mean, I hope your feet aren't drenched in sweat from all the heat.

But I wear flip flops all year round here, so each to his own, I guess.

riding boots & tight jeans paired with a natty blazer cant ever get old
otm
it comes and goes, but never feels wrong

although i don't really know what everyone is talking about re: "riding boots"
there are lots of different types of horse riding boots, no?

There are but I think they're using it to mean tall calf length leather boots like so?

http://www.thebudgetbabe.com/uploads/2008/200801/riding-boots.jpg

Or things similar to that.

yeah, I don't think we're talking about that xxp

I honestly just searched google/zappos for "riding boot" and determined that it was a reference I understood, which it was.

ENBB otm

i can't imagine anything bad to say about those boots

I just discovered that google image searching for "riding boots jeans" is pretty magical

no those are good boots!

I need a new pair tbh because I bought a really really nice pair last year but the heels are a little too hight and I feel too tall in them so I've only worn them once.

I like flat or near flat boots best.

Me too. I want some brown ones with a gently pointed toe but also calves that fit me and that is proving more difficult than I thought :(

I would face death in several insane stunts for black patent boots "(6)" but all the other pairs just say "rich Long Island publicity intern" to me. But that's just me.

I almost said the only ones I really don't like are #6 but I think it's cause the patent is too much in a boot for me.

never have I felt so blessed to not live anywhere near Long Island and to not have this burden of stereotype

they're not offensively ugly like uggs though -- these boots are "boring rich ppl" at worst.

or just boring sometimes

"they're not offensively ugly like uggs though -- these boots are "boring rich ppl" at worst"

Yeah, totally. I actually don't particularly love any of the ones in that pic I was just going for the general calf-length leather boot look.

these boots are "boring rich ppl" at worst.

Oh, absolutely. They're not hideous. They're more like, you really paid $300-600 to look exactly like everyone else?

well, this is a thread about a ubiquitous theoretically "bad" look that we love

love to hate, hate to love

I'm just cranky because none of them would fit me anyway.

It's funny, the eternal "New York" boot is still the black pointy-toed stiletto but riding boots are giving them a run for their money finally.

I swear I had an ex that was generally your size who had a pair of these

update: sighting of ~jeans and riding boots~ at workplace

In high school, I used to wear black vintage '60s ski pants with lace-up black boots, huge sweaters and cardigans, but since the ski pants were thick enough to obscure VPL the sweaters did not necessarily need to cover the arse. The ski pants were ludicrously inexpensive ($10 at vintage warehouse) and made out of the same fabric as old-school jodhpurs.

Have actually been wearing a pair of Etienne Aigner riding boots for like the past five years (never with leggings, always with jeans or cabley tights/short dress), and now a small rubbed hole has appeared on the side of the toe, almost as if the fashion gods were telling me it's time to stop, lest I overlap with these boring rich people who have Anthropologie store cards.

I went to the outlet mall at lunch today, omg it was like a leggings + riding boots convention

One tiny girl was super cute but her boots were hilariously high, like they came quite a ways up over the knee like veering up to fishing waders height, or julia roberts pretty woman cfm boots. not quite mid thigh but nearing there

they were a cool style leather and v chill it's just that the length looked funny on her. maybe because her legs were shorter or something, idk.

I think I'm just envious of anyone who can wear over-the-calf boots because of my giant balloon calves lol

I think I'm just envious of anyone who can wear over-the-calf boots because of my giant balloon calves lol

omg so envious. I remember after I first came to Canada I ended up nearly bawling in a shopping mall because I couldn't find a single pair of high snow boots that came close to getting over my calves. I had to get snowjoggers because they're short, and even then I have to wear the velcro fastenings really loosely.

my first christmas here mr veg bought me a pair of beautiful birkenstock riding boots...that I had to return bcz i couldnt zip them over my giant non german non svelte hiker calves waaaaah they were so beautiful

sorels or gtfo

what abt brown velour juicy couture style tracksuit & plimsoles