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Should you find yourself thinking ‘I know what I’ll wear today: leggings and a T-shirt’, think again. Those two items do not an outfit make – and the bottom half should never have been rescued from the wardrobe of history, writes ROSEMARY MacCABE

‘ZE LEGGING, it eez not ze trouser.” This is, one could reasonably imagine, what Coco Chanel might say, were she to take a jaunt on the Luas and spy the millions of young women clothed in what can only be described as a “semi” fashion. Because leggings, for the record, are not trousers. Should you find yourself awaking one morning to think “I know what I’ll wear today – leggings and a T-shirt”, think again. Those two items do not an outfit make and this is an important life lesson.