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Leg warmers were worn by dancers (to keep their legs warm I guess) until the 1980's when some trendsetter decided to take them to the streets, probably inspired by the dancing films of the time (Dirty Dancing, Fame, Flash Dance etc).

Anyway, it was a popular but short-lived fashion (thankfully) and by 1985 they were consigned to the dance studios once more.

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Do You Remember Leg warmers?

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  • Chaobaby7
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    looking out for some now, to bulk up my skinny rangy chicken legs
  • Anonymous user
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    remember these in high school roundabout 84-88, think i had grey ones but was too embarrased to wear them! lol thank god!
  • Anonymous user
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    I had blue woolen leg warmers with Scotty dogs on them, when I was 4. I have pictures of me wearing them.
  • Anonymous user
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    we were allowed to wear thease in school as long as they were the same dark blue as the uniform. Handy in winter for keeping legs warm. My favourite pair where day glow orange with black edges.....I felt ace wearing them...at the time!
  • AnythingButOrdinary7
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    I love leg warmers! I have a black sparkly pair, I love wearing them over black skinnies! :D
  • Anonymous user
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    yep i had a couple of pairs as well i had a black pair and a bright red pair , they looked cool with brown cords NOT
  • Anonymous user
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    I remember when you HAD to wear legwarmers with a very short burgundy kilt with gold check on it. Plus an airforce jacket with lots of badges. NICE!
  • Anonymous user
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    I was the proud owner of some groovy pairs of legwarmers! We used to try and out-do each other with the most fluorescent and brightly coloured, although the deputy headmistress of our school did not approve! We didn't care, we still wore them anyway!! Ha! Ha!
  • Anonymous user
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    Leg warmers! wow how I remember having these in every single colour you could get! After watching fame it was a must have! We used to pretend we were the kids from fame, except serveral pairs of 'two' left feet did us no justice, but we thought we were 'cool' anyway!
  • Anonymous user
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    The fashion era of leg-warmers had two stages. The first was to wear the leg-warmers at full stretch, right up your legs and the second was to push them down with very even "wrinkles". During the second stage my mum was convinced that we would make sure that the wrinkles were counted just to make sure that they were even.

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