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There oughta be a law!
Carl-E:
To me, pants are what Paul calls trousers. Jeans are jeans... there are also sweat pants, and what my wife calls stretch pants, which are much tighter and more form fitting than pants but not completely so - they still have legs that hang free from the knee down. Leggings, on the other hand, are completely form fitting, like tights but generally made from heavier material (tights tend to be somewhat translucent when stretched). Hose are a different matter, much lighter weight material, nearly transparent when stretched to shape.
My wife was a costumer for several years; the distinctions in terminology become important. Want someone to look like they stepped out of the 80's? Leggings with an asymmetrically collared t-shirt. The 70's? Stretch pants with a loud polyester blouse (preferably with ruffles).
Barmymoo:
I would call jeans trousers, in the general sense of the sentence "I no longer wear trousers", but I definitely wouldn't call leggings trousers. That'd be a bit like saying that boxer shorts are "pants" because they're the same sort of shape and cover the same areas as regular shorts. True, but if you go out in a shirt and your boxers you will look undressed. Same with leggings.
Welu:
Thank you all for explaining and much better than I could, including the pants/trousers definitions. Nekowafer linked the image I couldn't find, even. My discussion skills are a bit rusty, it seems.
Bluesummers:
--- Quote from: nekowafer on 09 Nov 2012, 20:49 ---Another problem with leggings:
Hint: look at her ankles.
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Most places I worked at (OK, all the places I've worked at) have contracts that mention a dress code, and specifically prohibit "tight pants and short-shorts."
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 10 Nov 2012, 02:21 ---I would call jeans trousers, in the general sense of the sentence "I no longer wear trousers", but I definitely wouldn't call leggings trousers. That'd be a bit like saying that boxer shorts are "pants" because they're the same sort of shape and cover the same areas as regular shorts. True, but if you go out in a shirt and your boxers you will look undressed. Same with leggings.
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Fair enough...but shorts aren't pants, they're shorts. But boxers are underpants. Are leggings just long underpants or something? I'd never heard the term used until recently.
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