Sienna Miller in Lycra
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Modern leggings made their first appearance in the 1960s.
They were trousers similar to capri pants, but tighter. Capri pants were charming – think Audrey Hepburn – and are still charming today.
It was when they morphed into leggings in increasingly tight, stretchy, machine-made polyamide fabric that the aesthetic problem began.
Leggings disfigure even those with a justifiable reason for wearing them: personal trainers,
