First leggings, now pantyhose for men!

I was concerned that men's fashions were getting weird when it was claimed that leggings would be the new thing. Now Gerbe in Paris has produced a line of pantyhose for men "due to increasing demand from male clients". Frogsmoke is as disturbed about this as I am.

I am not sure what I would need these for, at least the leggings were proposed as a comfortable substitute for pants or sweatpants. Perhaps the pantyhose or "feel-good knee-high hosiery" are "made to help drain toxins and massage tired limbs".

The new fashion "trends" make it easier and easier for me to ignore them because they stretch the bounds of credibility to irrelevance. I'll be saying this right up to the point that I am wearing these things just because everybody else is doing it.

(via Neatorama, and Frogsmoke linked above)

Leggings - the new sweatpants

Recent news from Milan makes the case that leggings will be the new fashion trend for men. They claim we will wear them in public no less. I don't own a pair of these even for private. They look like the bottom of long underwear to me. If the trend will be to wear underwear in public then they are right on with this. I may also be a contrarian: telling me something is a must have is a good way to put me off of it.

I imagine this is a case of "giving up" by wearing sweatpants in public a la Seinfeld. Leggings can be the new sweatpants. Men's fashion is a bit of a misnomer since the bulk of us tend to be slobs anyway. Defining fashion to mean whatever crap one throws on to leave the house is one way to reclaim the fashion landscape.