Our sibling mag, Portland Monthly, did a bit on jeggings in their August issue. I’m curious where you stand … in fact, I’m curious where I stand.

The thing with everyone wanting to discuss the whole vulgarity of tights- and leggings-as-"pants" thing is that the skinny jeans thing is often just as … distasteful. In my opinion, if your skinny jeans are skinnier than you are, they look just as wrong as a pair of footless tights under a T-shirt.

Well, okay, almost just as wrong.

The relative bulk-factor of denim does provide a little more modesty, sure. But don’t fool yourself: It’s not just the look of denim, it’s the sturdy weight of the fabric around your tush that makes the parading of it in public more acceptable. Thus, a pair of leggings made to look like denim – that is, thin, curve- and flesh-hugging stretch fabrics that have a faded, raw, or acid-washed feel but not weight to them – nah. That’s not going to cut it.

On a side note, a friend/co-worker told me she posted the Portland Monthly link to her FB page and someone had a pretty astute observation: if the marketing un-genius who came up with the jeans + leggings hybrid term "jeggings" had instead come up with "leans," well, a lot more women would be buying them.

Then again, in my opinion, that wouldn’t necessarily be a good thing.