Are Tight Pants Actually Trousers? An Argument Is Being Staged In American University Campuses.

When did tight pants become a target of culture from a garment? Nowadays, this kind of stretch pants, colors and patterns seems endless elastic pants, and become the source of unexpected controversy.

The storm began two weeks ago: at that time, Maryann White, the mother of the 4 sons, wrote a letter to the observer (TheObserver), Madonna University and the joint school newspaper of the St. Mary's College in the vicinity of Marian White, asking girls to ignore fashion and no longer wear tight pants.

She hinted that this would be good for girls themselves and for most people, partly because tights would make men difficult to control themselves.

This "sexy clothes" is a hint of seducing others to invade you, not to mention the idea of carrying out the dress review, which can be imagined within the school.

For two days, students were wearing tight pants to protest. On Twitter, men and women, young and old, attached their photos of tight pants to express their support through the label of University of Notre Dame's #leggingsdayND.

In March 29th, the Observer newspaper published another editorial editorial by editors, responding to the raging protests.

The editorial said: "Observer newspaper" has received letters from 35, and has witnessed numerous oral reviews, tweets, meme and class discussions on Monday's letter.

We were shocked by the heated debate on tights.

Until the end of the week, the discussions continued.

This is tight pants again following the United Airlines incident in 2017 caused a great stir again.

At that time, two more than 10 year old children with special passes were denied boarding because they were wearing tight pants. "Special passes" are usually held by airlines and their families, and they can enjoy discounted or free tickets.

In response, observers expressed their dissatisfaction, and people in the social media were angry. Tight pants manufacturers took this opportunity to show their talents.

For example, Puma (Puma) joined the scrimmage and launched such an activity: any customer can enjoy a twenty percent off discount as long as he shows United Airlines tickets and buys tight pants.

Therefore, the brand image of the company has been greatly enhanced.

This, in turn, exacerbated the endless discussion between parents, schools and students, which can be summed up as follows: "tight pants are the battle of trousers".

Usually, the life and death torture of a clothing soul (because it is indeed its essence) is mainly centered around women, including the body of women, women, and the general discomfort caused by seeing or believing that they have seen too many parts of the female body.

This is clearly the starting point for White to write this letter, and the political offensive commonly used by tight pants supporters: do you dare to accuse me of wearing tight pants to seduce the opposite sex? This view is particularly sympathetic in the era of the American anti sexual harassment movement #MeToo.

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But with the advent of comfort culture, tight pants began to dominate people's wardrobe: at the turn of the new millennium, Friday's work can wear casual clothes to get rid of the bondage of formal clothes; hedge fund managers wearing fleece fabric clothing have accelerated this trend; the old style of Wall Street has been reduced; Silicon Valley adored gifted with Hoodie and Teva sandal sandals; and under the influence of healthy exercise, this culture became more prevalent.

Tight pants also have different meanings for people of different ages: for the millennial generation, tights are often symbols of life style, representing health and vitality, not identical with everyday work clothes, and tight pants are only a basic thing for Z generation, which largely denials unification and traditional labels, just like jeans.

They are something you can wear without thinking about it.

It can be seen that tight pants do contain a lot of meanings, but "sex" is probably the least important thing if there is a connotation of "sex".

One of the most striking points at University of Notre Dame's protest is that people refuse to accept traditional gender assumptions on tights.

They suggested that tight trousers were not sirens (ancient Greek legend sea monster), and used to sing beautiful songs to seduce sailors to make their ships on the rocks or into dangerous waters.

The author of the Observer newspaper asked in an editorial: "why the controversy caused by tights is more influential than other controversial topics? Students and community residents are willing to spend hours discussing the merits of this fashion choice.

But how can we not have such a heated discussion in the face of other major policy implications and other legal implications?

The fact is that tight pants may be the focus instead of other problems.

One of the pitfalls in the fashion world is the fact that seemingly superficial or unimportant things, tight pants, actually represent more complex and more difficult realities.

This is the power of clothing.

So what the tights tell us is not just what kind of figure it is, but a cultural fault that runs through generations.

The pattern of this cultural fault has long been in the past, including miniskirts, jeans, Mary MaryQuant (the mother of mini skirts in the last century), her brand name in 1966, James Dean, JamesDean, American actor, his mainstream image representing the rebellion and romance of his youth, and seemingly unusually and unintelligible costumes for people who are usually referred to as "authoritative designers", but they play a key role in subverting tradition and opening up the next trend.

Of course, the above assessment may be a bit of an exaggeration.

They are probably tight fitting pants that are easy to wear and no socks.

However, according to the recent financial performance of the yoga clothing brand Lululemon, the company achieved a net revenue growth of 21% in the third quarter of 2018, while Levi's (Levi's)'s initial public offering (IPO) was heated, partly due to the addition of "stretch" elements to jeans to cater for tight pants Market.

Therefore, this "fashion dress choice" (this is the observer's label for tights) will not disappear in the near future.

There are signs that the storm at University of Notre Dame may not be an accident, but it has played a certain role.