Fitness pants are the first generation products of China elastic fabrics, which are very elastic, and they are the craziest pants in China in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Fitness pants first awakened the aesthetic and independent consciousness of women in China, and were once popular on a large scale. As a symbol of fashion at that time, almost all women, regardless of age and figure, wore it. Almost everyone, even boys, from female students to factory workers to old ladies selling vegetables in vegetable markets, from urban women to rural girls, wears a hat. Walking in the street, looking around, everyone is wearing one-piece fitness pants. Fitness pants were the most fashionable clothes of that era, and their appearance made all women follow the fashion collectively. "Officer again big, also want to wear a jacket; No matter how old you are, wear healthy pants. " Described the grand occasion when all the people in China were wearing fitness pants. Fitness pants, a kind of clothing popular in the 1990s, are often called ankle pants and ankle pants due to different regions. Generally, black is the main color, and it is blended with silk materials and appropriate man-made fibers. Very elastic, similar to dance pants, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. The bottom of trousers is tied with a belt or directly designed as a ring, so that when you step on it, there will be a sense of stretching, which will set off slender legs and reflect a kind of line beauty. In the early 1990 s, a self-deprecating jingle became a household name: no matter how big the official is, he wears a jacket; No matter how pregnant you are, wear healthy pants.

Later, the materials of fitness pants became varied and the colors gradually became rich, but the basic characteristics remained unchanged: close-fitting, high elasticity and breathability, but after a long time, the knees would swell up and some places would be smooth.

At the same time, there are cultural symbols with the characteristics of the times, such as hula hoop. Suddenly, like the spring breeze overnight, it is absolutely popular. Full acceptance and rapid popularization was the only response of society to so-called fashion things at that time. Red skirt, Bat shirt, Japanese color TV, break dancing, walkman, pop rock ... to fitness pants and hula hoop. Fitness pants and hula hoop, as the product of the contradiction between the infinite pursuit of beauty and the lack of information and narrow vision, became the vane of fashion at that time. The latter can be bodybuilding and slimming, which is a new sports fashion activity; The former is fashion, which can reflect the achievements of the latter to the maximum extent and show a fit figure.

Driven by irresistible fashion possessiveness, we can see such a scene anytime and anywhere in the streets at that time: from the age of three or four to the age of sixty or seventy, almost everyone has a pair of black women's fitness pants. Whether it's work, outing, dinner, shopping, hospital or food market. Stylish punctuation has become a panacea. In a slightly empty place, we will see women, especially women in their forties and fifties, almost frantically twisting their slender waist, making bright plastic rings dance with them, and another popular project at that time-eyebrow tattooing (a beauty project sought after by women at that time but with immature technology, eyebrows will turn into two worms on their foreheads in a few weeks), which will almost make people who are not prepared at first have visual and psychological effects. Fortunately, this culture quickly spread like a flood, and people were calm.

Fitness pants should be simple and picky. Simplicity is due to simple production and low cost, which is also the basic element that can be quickly popularized in China at that time; Being picky means that it has very strict requirements for the wearer. We know that its audience was very narrow at first, that is, professionals such as gymnastics and dance. Because of this, it was introduced and publicized by RTHK and sent to the pop altar in Chinese mainland. It is said that in the 1960s, Slima, a famous British women's clothing store, used wool and nylon blended materials to design, manufacture and sell these pants in large quantities. Fitness pants were originally professional pants worn by bodybuilders. Because of its flexibility, it can give full freedom to people's legs and reflect the curvy beauty of women's bodies, so it is deeply loved by the majority of female friends.

When fitness pants first became popular in China, many people didn't like them because they were too exposed and strict with their legs. Unless you are born with a pair of long legs, a pair of tight stretch pants wrapped around your thick legs will infinitely magnify your defects, which is very indecent. Everyone loves beauty, and the popular charm is too attractive. So bathed in the spring breeze of reform from urban to rural areas, from young children to rural women, people liberated from ideological imprisonment are no longer willing to be bound by various constraints and can't wait to try on and follow suit. For a time, the charm of fitness pants swayed everywhere in the streets.

Fitness pants were originally worn only in spring and autumn, and then gradually extended to winter with the expansion of the wearing crowd and actual needs. Some conservative and insecure women will wear them in winter. Adding a pair of warm pants inside the pants is not fat, and adding a coat outside is very chic. In the last decade of the 20th century, fitness pants became a necessity in the wardrobe of female friends, and whoever wore them became attached to fashion. It brought a big impact on people's visual aesthetics at that time.

By the end of the 20th century, fitness pants were all the same, and it was difficult to meet people's demand for novelty and novelty. With the opening up of China and the infiltration of new foreign trends, people began to pay attention to some avant-garde consciousness of highlighting individuality and self-promotion. After being popular for ten years, fitness pants were finally quietly pulled open one day and replaced by more self-promotion and more distinctive clothing items.

In the 2 1 century, fashion has become more diversified and personalized, and fitness pants have developed into leggings. Hollywood actresses put on black leggings, a loose T-shirt, big sunglasses and go shopping happily in their spare time. Legging pants, also known as Leggings, is legging in English. As the name implies, pants can wear a slender curve close to the legs. I have to admit that this kind of thing similar to fitness pants is really beautiful. At New York Fashion Week, leggings continue to occupy a place in the spring and summer trends, and the craze has not retreated. It's just that these black leggings have upgraded versions-such as rich colors, gold, purple and pink.

Before 2007, tights were very popular in Europe and America. There is a rumor in the workshop that a hipster forgot to wear outer pants at a fashion party, which made fashion observers mistakenly think it was the current trend. Several major brands quickly followed suit, CK introduced leggings with "nothing between me and my legging", Pucci designed leggings with prints, and Lagerfeld sewed diamonds on black leggings with white thread. The most loyal fan and spokesperson of leggings is "bad girl" lindsay lohan. She seldom wears them from summer to winter, so her agent has to hold a press conference to clarify that she doesn't always change them. In fact, she has thousands of identical ones, sometimes changing them four times a day. In order to popularize leggings, lindsay lohan simply created "6 126 brand" legging in 2008 (1 June 9261day is Monroe's birthday). As a symbol of fashion at that time, almost all women, regardless of age, figure and everyone, wore it, and the streets and alleys showed unprecedented unity and high profile.

However, our sisters and aunts don't have much discrimination. As everyone knows, small fitness pants are also a double-edged sword: for people with good figure, they are icing on the cake; And for some people, this is bring disgrace to oneself.