August 28th, 2010 by Felicity
Evenly spaced crash leggings spotted in streets fashion
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Trendy Japanese girls are ripping it up right now and flashing
quite a bit of flesh while they’re at it as they take a pair of
scissors to classic black pantyhose or leggings. While some girls
interpret this as a punk fashion by randomly slashing
Lycra, creating gaping holes and ladders aplenty, other
postmodernists are more careful about how their crash tights or
crash leggings appear, taking time to ensure that slits
are evenly spaced exposing equal parts of tempting flesh
all the way up the leg.
The trend could be symptom of Japan’s Lady Gaga mania. Gaga
turned up at Narita airport last summer in a pair of artfully
slashed leggings paired with a black jacket. Apparently the longish
jacket was necessary to conceal the fact that a little too much
flesh was peeping through around her panty line.
Crash (クラッシュ) is a word initially used to describe the process
of customizing jeans to make them look distressed. As with jeans,
you can buy pre-ripped leggings if you’re not confident enough with
a pair of scissors. But as one girl on Yahoo
Japan comments, the pre-ripped numbers sometimes look too
neat. She asked users for advice on how to achieve the random look
at home.
While the look is catching on with girly women, currently it’s
being sported mainly by cutting-edge fashionista chicks like the
one pictured. No matter what their style, one thing is for sure,
unlike Lady Gaga’s get up, they’ll be no slices of rump on display:
The trick for Japanese girls is to pair their messed up leg wear
with a suitably concealing mini skirt or dress.