Fashion Report: Edinburgh

The vast majority of the women, from about 10 to 50, are all wearing very slim/skinny jeans or tights/leggings, with a wide variety of tallish boots.   The youngest are wearing tights under short winter shorts. (Not the winter bermudas/tights combo I sported in the early 90s) 

Maybe it's the bulk created by coats, but most women I've seen don't appear to be terribly thin; I seem to be fairly average here, for my age. 

This morning I walked to breakfast behind an respectable-looking 20-something. She seemed to be missing her trousers or skirt. Her coat ended mid-hip, her boots went to her knees but in between she was wearing either very thin leggings or very thick tights.   And we were treated to undies & bum at the Edinburgh airport -- young woman in nearly missing denim skirt, with very thin tights.  You'd think she be a wee bit chilly down there in that combo.  Sorry, couldn't figure out how to get a picture of either without looking like a pervy creep.

Either way, the effect was such that these women appear to have forgotten something when dressing. I can see that the maxim: "Tights are not leggings and leggings are not pants" needs to be followed here as well as stateside.