While the debate continues on whether or not leggings are pants, one woman has made a choice to not wear the popular spandex bottoms in public for a very specific reason. Veronica Partridge, a Christian wife, mother, farmer and homemaker based in Oregon, posted on her personal blog about why she has made the decision to no longer wear leggings.
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“Was it possible my wearing leggings could cause a man, other than my husband, to think lustfully about my body?” she wrote in a post that has now been shared over 50,000 times on Facebook. “Sure, if a man wants to look, they are going to look, but why entice them?”
She made the decision to stop wearing yoga pants and similar bottoms out in public after having her beliefs about the temptation associated with leggings confirmed by her friends and her husband.
“It had been something that was on my mind for quite some time,” she tells PEOPLE. “I didn’t want to possibly cause another man, especially a married man, to look at me in a way I believe he should only look at his wife.”
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Partridge makes it clear, however, that these are her own beliefs, and she has no intentions of pushing them onto others.
“I was never trying to start a movement or try to tell women how to dress,” she says. “I was just sharing my personal decision on my personal blog.”
The lifestyle blogger says she was surprised by how much attention — mostly negative — this particular post received.
“Never did I expect it to go so viral,” Partridge says. “If I knew it was going to, I would have never posted it.”
What do you think of Partridge’s stance on leggings? Share your thoughts below.
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