It could have been a storyline from a Richard Curtis film. At this year’s Wimbledon championship, two talented young British players slogged it out at the most famous tennis championship on earth. And while the Wimbledon fairy tale did not work out for Emma Raducanu , who lost her second-round match, or for fellow Briton Katie Boulter, who only stayed.
How leggings became the defining clothing item of 2020
Today’s John Lewis report showed sales of leggings rose by a whopping 1,303 percent this year
21 December 2020 • 12:44pm
Leggings by: Lucas Hugh; The Girlfriend Collective and Vaara
Last year, a furore erupted in the United States when a university newspaper columnist suggested that female students who wore leggings to lectures were making it impossible for young men to concentrate. Hundreds of women gathered to protest, wearing - what else? - the sort of figure-sculpting leggings we’ve all become accustomed to putting on for a lot more than just exercise.
Showing how much the world can change in a year, today s annual John Lewis report - which was released this morning - showed that sales of leggings rose by 1,303 percent compared with 2019, as we began to attend work meetings, teach our children and socialise in stretchwear. One woman even learned she had been elected Vice President in a pair (VP-Elect Kam