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Meggings: leggings for men

Apparently leggings for men (“meggings”) are this year’s hit fashion item for Japanese men in their 20′s and 30′s:

The leggings-wearing men who are interviewed say they like meggings, but most women don’t seem to find their choice of clothing to be very manly. Of the 100 women interviewed, only 62 did not think men look cool when they wear leggings.

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32 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - October 22, 2009 at 8:40 am

Categories: Odd / Strange Tags: fashion, style

http://www.hormel.com VonSkippy

…are this year’s hit fashion item for GAY Japanese men in their 20’s and 30’s…

There, I fixed that for ya.

k

There’s no such thing as being gay in Japan, haven’t you ever read Saikaku?
Cholo

Nothing wrong wit it –

it’s normal LATINO GANG fashion, here in L.A. They all wear those long socks up to the knees with the funky baggy long shorts.

anon

why wear them with shorts? just wear long pants. now when its so cold regular pants aren’t enough, then you can wear those. otherwise pointless imo.

pixel_bomber

It never gets cold enough to wear double layered pants in Tokyo. I’ve been here 3 years and never had to wear my winter coat once.

lala

Yuck! They’ve got to do something about those bow legs! (Gals too.)
ari

I just saw one of those in downtown san francisco!
http://relaxedfocus.blogspot.com Rob

Meggings, for when plastic hair bands for men just aren’t effeminate enough…
Anon

I seem to remember Beckham wearing these years ago and if he can’t make them catch on…

If you just want the warmth then long johns under trousers have been around for centuries.
k

” this year’s hit fashion item for Japanese men in their 20’s and 30’s”

-FAIL!
It’s for young Japanese guys in their 20s up until around 40 year old dudes. so says man in suit

http://www.japanprobe.com James

“in their 20s up until around 40 year old dude”

Yeah, and? He’s giving a だいたい figure for the maximum age of men who buy it. Every other news report about it on TV has stressed that this is a trend for young men.

Weirdo

You’ve 40s everywhere very sad.

k

lol DOUBLE FAIL

ぐらい　is relating to the maximum age, 大体　in this case means more or less means “generally” or “mostly” as in- “generally/mostly(daitai) young men from their 20s up to around(gurai) 40″
so the daitai is more or less stressing that this where most of the consumers fall, not the maximum.

BOOM HEAD SHOT.
Weirdo

whoa, wtf was I thinking when I submitted that post.

“You just made a lot people in their 40s very sad” is what I was trying to say.

@k, huh?

InJM

Yeah, if you want to stay warm, just slip said leggings your pants. This is better than the man-skirt and leggings combo though.
pixel_bomber

Hah I used to wear something like that back in my punk days.
emerald0805

i love to watch man wearing this thing…the look so damn cute n fashionable… its not wierd to me … but seriously it only applicable to japanese only hehehe

my fav fashion with megging

pixel_bomber

but seriously it only applicable to japanese only hehehe

omg, so racist…

Woman

I’ve witnessed a lot of gay shenanigans in Japan but this takes the soggy biscuit.
Crumpety

They just look like long johns hikers wear.. don’t think any of my gay men friends would be caught in something so ug.
who

Well, trendy men’s fashion in every country is weird and homosexual.
adsasdfdfddfsd

How about LONG JOHNS, and you don’t wear them with shorts etc.
Ajapa

Asahi Shinbun has an article on “Leggings for Men” too, but it also mentions on the aspect of thermals in winter.

『「レギンス男子」増殖中　ももひきとは違う防寒』 2009年10月12日
“Leggings boys” Increasing – Another Way of Protection Against the Cold Than Momohiki, 12 Oct. 2009

According the above article:

Where does this trend of “Leggings for Men, too” come from?

A buyer of men’s goods section of Takashimaya Shinjuku, Ohsuke Takakuma, said “That was tights, one of the thermal wear series ‘HEATTECH’, sold by Uniqlo since 2003.” “They had been accepted with a different impression than Momohiki as a thermal wear,” he continued. Then, “It is now considered fashionable even when it is exposed, and also there is increasing needs for it.”

Momohiki (Google image search result for “モモヒキ”) is a (traditional) thermal wear for men, usually worn by middle-aged and elderly men.
Ajapa

Not only “Leggings for men” but also “Skirt for men” and “Hi heels for men”. It is highly suspicious that they are really a trend in men’s fashion.

A J-Cast News article on “Skirt Boys” (in Japanese):
http://www.j-cast.com/2009/08/11047258.html

J-Cast News reported that there was increasing number of men wearing a skirt in the areas like Harajuku and Aoyama (not Scotland) on 5 Aug. 2009. The above article is a follow up of it. A poll result in this article shows that 89% of voters don’t consider it fashionable.
Ap

The first guy the interview sure does look “alternative”… and so does the second guy… lol

“only 62″ – that’s wrong, when you read it after the previous sentence.
http://www.chouzuru.blogspot.com/ Sara Mari

They don’t really look like women’s leggings, they are looser like tight pajama pants or something. And the second guy was wearing it in a way that, if I hadn’t known, I would just think it was a second pair of pants or socks. Hmm, it doesn’t bother me either way it’s just clothing. And what makes some fashion “gay” who decides that?
Garamon

I wonder what’s next, stoles and muffs for men? Could call them moles and meffs perhaps?
Melody

How those guys coordinate the leggings is just a causal, layered male hipster wear that doesn’t inform anything about your sexual preference at all., it just reminds me of a hipster take on basketball uniform (where guys wear tights underneath the loose short pants).

Funny all these insecure little men crying ‘gay’, are they the same clueless boring folks who still thinks skinny jeans = gay?
MC Okii Dokii!

How can everyone be surprised by this. Meggings have been around for a lot longer than before it came to Japan. In Canada they re called long johns… of course in Japan.. they re just glorified designer long johns.. but still LONG JOHNS!!!

and to the 62% woman that thought it was uncool! they obviously haven`t lived in -40 degree celsius weather.
http://www.fukuokadreaming.com crew

Wow, here I was wondering how those ladies in really short skirts and tights could survive the cold Fukuoka winter. Now I can find out myself (er…without the skirt of course!)
Rik

Hi,

In Los Angeles, it has been catching on for the past several years. Women wear them normally, but wearing under gym shorts or out road cycling or playing basketball it is in! Back in 80s it was popular up until mid 90s. Punk and Ska had similar warddrobe. This group worn black thermals or colored tights with fishnets. It was the in thing. It is still holding to this date with new groups and activity to wear it and make it norm. I have several pairs of tights and leggings. I wear with shorts or road cycling. Common in LA. Get used to it. All I ask is where do I buy the printed ones like they have in Japan.
Gabriel

Japanese men are just more fashionable, as they have so much more freedom to dress the way they want without being beaten up by big aggressive beasts.

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