Legging Guidelines - YouLookFab Forum

Ladies, and Angie if you are about :), it's warming up and it's leggings season for me. I am wondering about length and proportion in relation to wearing ankle length leggings.

I know leggings at that mid calf length work well with a knee length skirt but are there particular guidelines for wearing leggings to the ankle as in my photos?

I love these but haven't gotten a lot of wear out of them yet.

I remember Angie's blog where she was wearing a knee length skirt and stirrup leggings and this got me thinking.

So I wore them tonight with the black flats and a velvet knee length sack dress. I think it was quite a balanced look but your advice would be greatly appreciated. I would really like to get these into regular rotation in my wardrobe.

As always, thank you xxx

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Sylvia

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Nice leggings with those buttons at the end. They were very prominent in the new Gucci spring 2012 collection! I think your combination would work really well as described.

sarah

Veteran

These look perfect to me - I can totally see you incorporating these into your wardrobe!

Cacy

I think they are perfect!
Just if you can change the color to not be so dark...You can wear some pants in other color to refresh this outfit!

Angie

Fashion Stylist

Love, love, love!

Perfect length.

modgrl

These are lovely! I hope you can find a way to get them into more frequent rotation. They are very sweet.

yublocka

Deborah these are great leggings. Where are they from? I'm a big fan of ankle length, as well as shorter leggings. Great for in-between weather!!

Anonymous

I relaly like the buttons. They look great with those shoes!

Carole

Love those leggings. The buttons are different in a really good way.

catgirl

Those are some fab leggings, and they look perfect (and edgy!) to me. Would love to see the whole outfit.

Kat

Adore those leggings and think they could not be a more perfect length. Mind if I ask the brand?

Any chance we can see the entire outfit?

Janet

I may be the only woman on the planet who doesn't like leggings much, but I love those! Please post a pic with your whole outfit!

Louise

Ooooo I love these x

Lynne

Lovely; I love that you've worn them long and unbuttoned. Beautiful.

nicoleb

I like them also!

Aida

Ohmygosh those are really cool leggings!! *ahem* These look like normal pant length to me, so wearing the way you described sounds perfect. Undoing a few of the snaps around the ankle is a great touch; it adds a bit more skin with the flats to keep it from looking too heavy. What balance is it you had trouble with with these that limited their wear? Heaviness, skin showing, darkness, something else?

Deborah

Aida, the more I think about it, it may just be my eye is more used to the mid calf length legging. And yes Im used to seeing more skin I'm thinking that I can probably wear both a shorter (knee length) skirt length and a midi length with the longer legging?

CocoLion

Very cool leggings! I am a legging novice so I look forward to seeing outfits with these.

Hmm how about substituting these for outfits where you'd do a dress+skinny jeans? The length should work, and if it's a dress you won't have to worry about coverage. Knee length skirt sounds great! Midi length+legging is not something I'm familiar with, but I would guess if it's tonal it could work; otherwise you may end up with too many horizontal lines? Not sure

Fruitful

Supercool leggings Deborah! They remind me a little bit of spats, which I adore.

Una "edgy" doesn't come naturally to me so I was very excited that you think these have an edgy look

yublocka and Kat, I bought these at Target (Australia). They are about 2 years old and are the Limited Editions label at Target. Only the larger stores seem to carry this range.. its generall very good.

Aida thanks again. Yes I think pairing them with dresses that I would normally wear over skinny jeans will work. I feel confident knee length skirts and dresses will work but might take some photos of a more midi length (not that I have many) skirt/dress and see how it looks. I am concerned it might look a bit frumpy

For those of you who asked, will try and post an outfit with these soon.

Kari

Drat, I have a feeling the US-based Target stores don't carry these leggings. They look SO great! Let's see you wearing them with a head-to-toe outfit.
In general, I like to wear dresses with leggings that are in between tunic and knee length. If the dress is below knee length, I feel like wearing leggings throws off proportions on my body. If the dress is higher than about 4" above knee length, I feel too exposed when I bend over - I tend to treat leggings more like thick tights and do not think of them as pants at all.

puffenstuff

Love the leggings Deborah - I've let mine go a bit because I got over the look of wearing them with skirts but I love your idea to wear them with ankle length with a sack dress. I generally get too hot in the darn things in the balmy Brissy weather! Can we see the outfit pretty please?!

Kari, I'm with you. I don't view leggings as pants either. They don't have the "substance" of proper pants and I feel exposed if the top is too short. Proportion is also my concern if I wear a longer skirt length. But I will play around and see what the camera says

That's good Deborah, because
"Every day girls around the world unwittingly leave the house without pants on."

http://www.buzzfeed.com/sly/am-i-wearing-pants

Lisa

These are some really cute leggings. The length looks fine with these unsnapped to show a bit of skin as done here. Nice!

Debora

Very interesting topic, Deborah! Love the leggings and can't wait to see how you incorporate them into your wardrobe.

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