How to Style Leggings for a Cool Look

If you remember curvy divas, last summer I wrote my first article about Leggings. I've even written about men wearing Meggings! And from time to time, I have featured other articles with leggings! This time I've found an article on Refinery29.com showing us tips on how to wear leggings the cool way! I must admit that not being a size 0, I sometimes tend to cover my "assets" when wearing certain styles, leggings being one of those styles! I usually layer long with short to give me a cleaner look. I see from this article that I was on the right track!

Joanna Riedl shows us how to style leggings well when we wear them by getting tips from some Fashionistas on the streets, in her article: "5 Locals Show us to Style Leggings - The Cool Way!" Photographs are by Maria del Rio:

Of the five Fashionistas she featured, I selected my two favorites!

Michele Janezic, Buyer & Manager at Mill Mercantile & designer at Janezic

She believes in buying quality over quantity and says "less is more" but when styling leggings "balancing proportions, textures & color are important"! Her leggings "no-no, not wearing tights as leggings"!

I love Michele's look! I've worn this look before and quite agree with her philosophy! So true, tights (pantyhose, exercise tights) are tights; are thinner than leggings and usually have feet! Leggings are usually thicker than tights and are footless!

My second favorite look is this leather leggings:

Olga Montserrat, Art Director & blogger at twelveofour.blogspot.com

Olga thinks leggings gets a bad rap and consider them to be her most "hard working item in her wardrobe"! She loves her leather leggings for their versatility! Her leggings "no-no: not covering your front area appropriately"; which means say no to camel-toes so you have to layer appropriately curvy divas!

I'm in, I want a pair of leather leggings!

To see more tips from Joanna, and photos by Maria, go here:
http://www.refinery29.com/how-to-wear-leggings/slideshow#slide-1

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