Cycling tights, or, why I want gender equality

[vickster]

I can't bear ordinary tights, ugh...only when I absolutely have to (i.e. under a dress at the Christmas party)
...cycling tights are ok for cycling. I don't wear leggings, jeggings, long Johns (or Jills) or any other similar variant

@Hill Wimp Knickers = 3/4 length cycling shorts/tights...presumably named after knickerbockers which were below the knee

 

[annedonnelly]

I'm with @vickster on this - cannot abide tights. Stockings for under skirts & dresses. Leggings are for cycling or exercise.

You know when you see little girls with the crotch of their woollen tights round their knees because they're too big or have just worked their way down? That's how I always feel in tights

 

[Sandra6]

I've never worn cycling tights - although I'm with the other ladies in thinking they're not even tights.
I do like thick wooly tights with skirts and boots though, on or off the bike, but after a while they make my legs itch and I'm always glad to get them off. Allbeit less glamorously then miss Goodbody ;-)

 

[HertzvanRental]

I prefer stockings, pencil skirts and frilly blouses. But only on a Friday night!!

 

[GM]

I prefer stockings, pencil skirts and frilly blouses. But only on a Friday night!!

......and suspenders!

 

[HertzvanRental]

......and suspenders!

You've been peeping!!

 

[Dan B]

......and suspenders!

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Agreed, tights have feet
Don't suit them at all, they always sag

 

[roadrash]

Agreed, tights have feet
Don't suit them at all, they always sag

wot... like this

 

[Katherine]

I have never understood why cycling tights are called that. Being of the female persuasion, the fact they don't have feet makes them leggings to me and on the same theme why are cycling Bib shorts or Bib leggings called knickers ?

They aren't knickers in anyway shape or form

Exactly

 

[Katherine]

As @vickster, I wear tights once a year at the Christmas party. Trousers and a smart top at work. Jeans the rest of the time. I think of my cycling tights as trousers because they are thicker than leggings and they don't have feet.
You should wear what you like though.

 

[winjim]

I have the cutest little pair of tights with an embroidered rabbit on the bum.














For my nine week old daughter.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

As I have dual gender issues, I wear what I want, bib shorts in summer, modified leggings and said bib shorts in winter and if colder than maybe 2 or 3 degrees winter trousers. I can be in my cycling kit a good chunk of the day, I find skirts more comfortable than shorts (normal day to day shorts) as shorts can ride up between the legs, but I suppose being a naturist a skirt would perhaps be a more natural thing to wear.

 

[Sara_H]

All the boys in our family wore rights as babies/toddlers.
Couldn't pull them off as they could socks, so had nice warm tootsies.

 

[winjim]

All the boys in our family wore rights as babies/toddlers.
Couldn't pull them off as they could socks, so had nice warm tootsies.

That problem's been solved
http://www.sockons.co.uk/products/sockons/

But I'm starting to understand the idiocy of trying to put babies in ostensibly grown up clothes, socks, pretty dresses etc. They're uncomfortable, difficult to put on and she'll only puke on them. Babygros are totally the practical choice.