Most American women are wearing the wrong size jeans. Either they are too tight, creating buffets of sausage legs and muffin tops, or they're too baggy.
So I was skeptical about the idea of jeggings. A marriage of skinny jeans and leggings, jeggings have been around for the past two seasons and they're likely to take another whirl through Fall 2010.
On celebrities like these, jeggings seem like the perfect solution for flaunting a lean silhouette while being comfortable. Worn with a tunic, a blazer and t-shirt or a sweatshirt, jeggings are a stylish and modern alternative to bootcut jeans. But like the sculpted shouldered blazer of last fall, this trend is easy to screw up. Instead of Fergie fierceness, you have Cindy cellulite. Cropped anything looks terrible with jeggings, even if you're tall and skinny. The right shoe also matters. Heels, boots and booties elongate the legs, while ballet flats have the potential to create stumpy leg.
Bottom line: Jeggings get a yellow light. Proceed with caution, but have fun.
I'd even vote for an orange light. This is easy for real people with real bodies to get wrong.
ReplyDeleteMy own personal take on it: these--and skinny jeans, too--are for people proportioned like ballerinas or models. Thin legs with thighs that are nearly the same size as the calves. One long straight line from ankle to hip.
I don't think any of the celebrities except Halle look good, because they have real-sized legs and/or behinds and they're showing too much. Nice bodies, but not suited for this look. It makes your legs look fat, even if they're not.
The ONLY way I think one can get away with these, as Halle is doing, is with a top that comes down to the part of the thigh that is in the right (ballerina) proportion--the beholder's eye kindly assumes the rest of the thigh is that size, too, and the lines work.
But, I know people will make fun of me wearing flares long after I should. :)