I've got this feeling I'd like to start wearing some more appropriate skating attire when I get my new skates. I know a lot of ladies here wear leggings to practice in, but I'm a larger lady (5ft 2 and 180lbs) and am thinking, if I do that, I need to cover my rather large behind
So, what level were you when you started to wear things like leggings/tights and skirts etc?
I used to wear skating pants, until an accident happened wherein I caught my toepick in the side fabric of my pantsleg. Although the fabric of the pants was not torn, my toepick produced an inch and a half gash in the inside of my left calf. That has always puzzled me how the toepick did not cut the fabric, but really cut up the inside of my left calf. That accident finally knocked enough sense in my head to begin wearing something other than pants for skating practice.
Many of the younger kids and teens at my rink wear leggings, but you have to remember that they do not as yet have an adult's body size and shape. I have occasionally seen a female adult skater with a somewhat larger behind, or with a typical adult body size and shape that is not real thin wear leggings for skate practice, and the look of leggings by themselves, both covering everything as well as showing everything, is just a bit unnerving, to say the least. I, too, have a somewhat bigger proportioned behind and thighs, and although I have worn skating leggings for practice, they just make me feel uncomfortable.
The combination that has worked for me is to wear a velvet skating dresses with long sleeves for warmth, along with sheer-to-the-waist support pantyhose, with skating tights worn over the pantyhose. The skating dresses that I wear have a longer skirt, styled like a synchro or dance skating dress, so the dreaded behind factor is covered, and the layered pantyhose/skating tights are warm enough so that I do not freeze to death during dance practice. So, that's all I ever wear for skate practice these days, a pretty skating dress, and the pantyhose/tights combination.