From battlefield to basket of goods: our long love affair with leggings

They are now one of the consumer products used to measure the UK’s inflation rate, but leggings have been around for 300 years

The basket of goods used to calculate the rate of inflation was this week updated to include quiche (at the expense of pork pies) and also “leggings”. But why are leggings called that? Long gloves are not called “armings”, and a jumper is not a “torsoing”.

Related: Quiche in, pork pies out! UK inflation goods basket changes for 2018

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from The Guardian http://ift.tt/2HCcyb2