Is 50+ too old to wear tights / yoga pants out in public?

[Anonymous]

Never too old. When we visit my great aunt in assisted living, it seems like half the residents are rocking leggings. Comfy and convenient!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wear them!!! I'm 56 and run daily so I'm in them. That's what's great about the 50s- who cares!

+1 I'm 58 and SO glad I have no more f@$ks to give about shlt like this. Don't like what I'm wearing? Don't like how I look? I don't give a f@$k. Don't look.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think any age older than middle school is too old to wear tights/yoga pants in public (unless we are talking for some sort of yoga or other exercise class or running or biking or something).

Leggings are not pants. I will die on this hill.

Important distinction - Running/athletic/yoga tights are not leggings, and the whole leggings are not pants came about when leggings were commonly see through. If i can’t actually see your underwear (VPL doesn’t count), then legging away.

Oh please. They’re leggings. They don’t need to be “see through” for everyone to see the crack of your @$$ and your camel toe. Which everyone most certainly can.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think any age older than middle school is too old to wear tights/yoga pants in public (unless we are talking for some sort of yoga or other exercise class or running or biking or something).

Leggings are not pants. I will die on this hill.

Important distinction - Running/athletic/yoga tights are not leggings, and the whole leggings are not pants came about when leggings were commonly see through. If i can’t actually see your underwear (VPL doesn’t count), then legging away.

Oh please. They’re leggings. They don’t need to be “see through” for everyone to see the crack of your @$$ and your camel toe. Which everyone most certainly can.

Oh, honey, no one is looking at a 50+ year old. Invisibility has its privileges

But I’m also with PP who points out we don’t give a f@ck

[Anonymous]

What on earth are “hiking tights?”

[Anonymous]

I wear leggings as pants all the time. They are comfortable and a mainstream look now. I say go for it if you like the look and feel comfortable.

[Anonymous]

Depends what you look like

[Anonymous]

Of course you can! My mom is 80 and it’s all she wears.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think any age older than middle school is too old to wear tights/yoga pants in public (unless we are talking for some sort of yoga or other exercise class or running or biking or something).

Leggings are not pants. I will die on this hill.

Ok Janet

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just got these amazing hiking tights and I would love to wear them out shopping and such, but am I too old (55) to do so? I would have a somewhat long coat covering them up a bit and they are not skin tight. I usually wear jeans, so it's a different style for me.

As long as they are not skin tight and you have a long shirt to cover your butt I think it looks good. It’s the women who wear skin tight leggings and a yoga bra and that’s it, Not attractive.

[Anonymous]

Tights go under dresses.

[Anonymous]

I'm a 48 yr old fitness instructor and wear my yoga pants to work, to the store, to the sandwich shop for lunch, etc. I don't care if people have a problem with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wear them!!! I'm 56 and run daily so I'm in them. That's what's great about the 50s- who cares!

+1 I'm 58 and SO glad I have no more f@$ks to give about shlt like this. Don't like what I'm wearing? Don't like how I look? I don't give a f@$k. Don't look.

Pretty much this. Wear what you want. Who gives a flying fig what other people might think?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think any age older than middle school is too old to wear tights/yoga pants in public (unless we are talking for some sort of yoga or other exercise class or running or biking or something).

Leggings are not pants. I will die on this hill.

Ok Janet

Janet? Is this what the old ladies think is a hot take now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think any age older than middle school is too old to wear tights/yoga pants in public (unless we are talking for some sort of yoga or other exercise class or running or biking or something).

Leggings are not pants. I will die on this hill.

Important distinction - Running/athletic/yoga tights are not leggings, and the whole leggings are not pants came about when leggings were commonly see through. If i can’t actually see your underwear (VPL doesn’t count), then legging away.

Oh please. They’re leggings. They don’t need to be “see through” for everyone to see the crack of your @$$ and your camel toe. Which everyone most certainly can.

Oh, honey, no one is looking at a 50+ year old. Invisibility has its privileges

But I’m also with PP who points out we don’t give a f@ck

+1. 58 yo PP with no more f@$ks to give here. Only my DH looks at my "crack and camel toe" any more. Not only is he fine with me wearing leggings and pick shorts, my teens/young adults are fine with it.

Even if I did have f@$ks left, why would I care what you think?